. @edbookfest listening to last night's talk in which Damian Barr interviews Andrew O'Hagan about cancel culture and silencing people with whom we disagree is sickening. Barr admitted he publicly shamed and cancelled Baroness Nicholson because of her feminist campaigning. He's the

wrong person to be picked to talk about this, get paid for it, and get to talk about cancel culture as if he's not been a huge public part of it this year (it was in the mainstream press several times). How does HE get to fail upwards whilst the woman he gunned for is left hurt

Listen from about 36 mins in https://www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival/whats-on/andrew-o-hagan-heydays-in-the-hacienda/player