Censorship is at the heart of today’s polarisation. I truly believe this. Take it off the table and we will need to talk to those we disagree with to progress as a country. I don’t know about you, but I am ready for those hard discussions.
As long as I could remember, I had a thought that the right hat would transform my life.
I want movies to play hard-to-get. But sadly, there is no longer any thrill in the chase.
What is clear is, rather than feeling any compulsion to defend women, many men, and from unexpected quarters, still actively seek to abuse them, either verbally or, as we have seen, physically. Attaching to a moral crusade is wonderful cover for that.
A community spokesperson (who can expect return visits to the podium) needs to reflect what those in power want promoted. If they don’t, they just can’t expect airtime. The canny ones learn this and adapt accordingly.
The identitarian politics popular on today’s neo-Left has only been able to sustain itself through the avoidance of debate and engagement.
They thought they were buying a ticket to Westworld where you win every gunfight. A robot has malfunctioned, and now it is on management to repair it.
She didn’t hide a thing, included a history of sex work. Her honesty clearly did the trick. Show people your heart, and eventually that is all they will see.
What we should fear most, yet can never predict, is a ‘radical loser’s’ chance encounter with themselves, in a song, in a book, in a film.
Rock n’ roll was about extending a middle finger to the system and taking a dump on the white rug in the foyer on the way out.