1/ An alarming number of people are losing their jobs at the moment – or being suspended from them, pending investigations – because they've criticised some aspect of the Black Lives Matter movement.
5/ Martin Shipton, chief reporter of the Western Mail, has been forced to step down as a Wales Book of the Year Judge after he complained that the Black Lives Matter protest in Cardiff broke the Welsh Government's social distancing rules https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52940249
6/ You may disagree profoundly with what these men have said. But you should defend their right to say it without losing their careers. As George Orwell said, "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people things they do not want to hear."
27/ UKTV, which is owned by BBC Studios, has just deleted 'The Germans' from its streaming service, a Fawlty Towers episode in which a character called "the Major" is chastised for using the N-word. https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/news/5804/fawlty-towers-removed-by-uktv/
45/ The Dixie Chicks have changed their name to The Chicks because "Dixie" refers to the southern states of the US that broke away to form the new Confederate States of America. A statement on their website reads: "We want to meet this moment." https://news.sky.com/story/the-dixie-chicks-change-their-name-over-backlash-12015000?dcmp=snt-sf-twitter
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