A major Whitehall investigation involving police chiefs, Government officials and Ofsted has been launched into the handling of the emerging ‘rape culture’ scandal among pupils at Britain’s elite schools. Officials from the Home Office and Department for Education (DfE) are leading a cross-Government response with senior police officers, who are being urged to take claims … Read more
Television host Daryl Somers says he does not believe his classic variety show, Hey Hey It’s Saturday, would be shown on television today. Speaking to The Daily Telegraph, the 69-year-old said today’s ‘cancel culture’ would shut the program down. He said: ‘You probably could not get away with half the stuff you could on Hey Hey … Read more
‘Toxic culture’ of bullying, racism and sexual harassment exists at Britain’s largest nuclear plant Sellafield that could lead to ‘disaster’ whistleblowers claim Workers said behaviour could lead to a ‘disaster’ at the Sellafield site in Cumbria One employee claimed that managers did nothing when he was ‘racially taunted’ Another said a manager asked if she … Read more
The banjo player from folk rock group Mumford & Sons announced today he is ‘taking time away from the band’ to ‘examine my blindspots’ after a Twitter pile-on for praising a controversial right-wing writer. Winston Marshall was attacked on social media after tweeting support for US journalist Andy Ngo over the weekend, calling him a … Read more
Meghan Markle experienced a ‘culture shock after her marriage’ and ‘no one could’ve helped her bridge that, except the Duchess of Windsor had she still been alive’, according to a royal expert. The Duchess of Sussex, 39, used her two-hour tell-all with Oprah yesterday to reveal how she went into the Firm ‘naively’, claiming she ‘didn’t … Read more
Alec Baldwin has posted a 14-minute video rant on Instagram, hitting out at cancel culture and defending due process amid sexual misconduct allegations leveled at New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Woody Allen. The Hollywood actor, 62, shared the video from his home in the Hamptons on Sunday – less than a week after he … Read more
Charles Blow angered the internet when he wrote Pepe Le Pew ‘normalizes rape culture’ A columnist for The New York Times has published an op-ed that claims the Looney Tunes skunk Pepe Le Pew ‘normalized rape culture.’ Charles M. Blow made his critical comments in an article titled ‘Six Seuss Books Bore a Bias’ published … Read more
She recently revisited some of the darker times in her life, but on Monday she said she was ‘full of peace, serenity, joy, and love’. Demi Lovato posted a lovely and confident post to her Instagram feed on Monday, in which she was seen standing in front of a mirror showing off her slim waistline … Read more
‘Cancel culture is stifling new writers’: Nobel-winning novelist Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns that young authors are having to self-censor amid a ‘climate of fear’ The Never Let Me Go novelist said he is concerned for less established writers He fears authors are avoiding writing from other people’s perspectives He is the latest writer to warn … Read more
Culture secretary Oliver Dowden ‘to confront Facebook this week’ over blocking news in Australia as Matt Hancock backs making social media giants pay for publishing links to stories Matt Hancock said he is a ‘great admirer’ of Canada and Australia in interview Both are trying to make the social media giant pay publishers for sharing … Read more