What do people think is the job of the Chairman of the BBC, or of the Chairman of Ofcom? What, exactly, are they expecting Charles Moore or Paul Dacre to do?
Now, don't get me wrong. I am not opposed to these appointments in principle. But warriors for free speech? The Thatcherite Right was not like that in its pomp. It is only since anyone has started to answer it back that it has decided that it was being "cancelled".
The key figure in that answering back was Jeremy Corbyn, the most "cancelled" politician of any permitted prominence in anything approaching recent British history. Perhaps one or other of these positions ought to be offered to him?
Even during Corbyn's Leadership of the Labour Party, some of us have never not been "cancelled", and we need no lectures on "cancel culture" from those who have always silenced us but who now bellow that they themselves are being silenced. We may hope for a fairer hearing under Moore or Dacre. But we have no expectation of it.
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