Thursday, December 17, 2020

Cancel Culture Book Cancelled.

 

In defence of 

Julie Burchill

Her book on cancel culture has been cancelled. 
You couldn’t make this up.

BRENDAN O'NEILL
EDITOR

15th December 2020
In defence of Julie Burchill
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Cancel culture doesn’t exist, they say. In which case maybe someone could explain why Julie Burchill’s book on cancel culture has just been cancelled.
Burchill, Fleet St legend and contributor to spiked, was writing a book called Welcome to the Woke Trials. It promised to be a typically insightful and acerbic dissection of the hysteria and intolerance of wokeness. But it is no more. The yellow-bellied folk at Hachette Books have pulled the plug after Burchill got into a Twitter spat with Ash Sarkar.

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