Nadine With Attitude: culture secretary’s TikTok rap draws ridicule
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Era, forse, more straight out of The Thick of It than Compton, but Nadine Dorries seemed undeterred. In a move that has elicited a somewhat mixed reaction, the culture secretary launched an explanation of the gov...
Sue Gray report: Tory MP quits as Patel’s aide over ‘toxic culture’ at No 10
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Boris Johnson has suffered the first resignation of a frontbencher since the publication of Sue Gray’s damning report into Partygate with the departure of Paul Holmes as a ministerial aide to the home secretary. In un ...
Britain’s Kafkaesque boycott of Russian culture plays straight into Putin’s hands
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Wimbledon’s decision to ban Russian tennis players, including world No 2 Daniil Medvedev, is Russophobia gone mad. It implies that Britain regards all Russians as colluders in the actions of the Russian state and in V...
How 4chan’s toxic culture helped radicalize Buffalo shooting suspect
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Just weeks after 4chan motivated a quadruple shooting in Washington, the racist and conspiracy-oriented online message board probably inspired the killings of 10 at a grocery store in a predominantly Black neighborhoo...
Alleged racial abuse from Super Rugby crowd overshadows upcoming Culture Round
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Wellington Hurricanes loose forward Du’Plessis Kirifi complained of alleged racial abuse from the crowd at Sydney’s Leichhardt Oval during Saturday’s Super Rugby clash against the New South Wales Waratahs. The 25-year...
These destructive, vindictive civil service cuts are part of Johnson’s culture wars
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The vast majority of the UK’s 475,000-odd civil servants are sick of political psychodrama, and don’t care exactly when Boris Johnson decides to scuttle off into the gilded obscurity of the panel comedy shows, neolibe...
Cancel culture? My play was shut down by rightwing activists before it even opened
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I am the producer and co-creator of a piece of theatre that was cancelled before it had even been seen. It started like this: a group of people online began to call for the show to be shut down. It gained some tractio...
Corporate America buckles down for culture war on Roe v Wade
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After a supreme court decision that overturns Roe v Wade was leaked and signaled the impending end of federal constitutional protection for abortions, a trickle of companies have slowly started to announce policies th...