{"id":137052,"date":"2023-05-19T23:51:50","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T16:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/cancel-culture-and-the-oxford-union-brief-letters\/"},"modified":"2023-05-19T23:58:30","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T16:58:30","slug":"cancel-culture-and-the-oxford-union-brief-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/cancel-culture-and-the-oxford-union-brief-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Cancel culture and the Oxford Union | Brief letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nFree speech | Crossword coincidence | Early readers | Rewilding too far | Lost Marxists So the Oxford Union is now under pressure from the cancel culture (Academics condemn \u2018threats\u2019 against Oxford Union in Kathleen Stock row, 17 May). I recall a Union debate in the early 60s when one of the speakers was Oswald Mosley. He was given a pretty rough ride. But the idea that we might have been forbidden to hear and debate his views would have been unthinkable.John Prescott ThomasBristol\u2022 I read the paper at breakfast time on Wednesday and sent off my email about Dorothy\u2019s dog (Letters, 17 May) just after 8am. Then I did the quick crossword at lunchtime \u2013 and the clue for 10 across was \u201cDorothy\u2019s dog\u201d. How weird is that! Pam FraserCumnor, Oxfordshire Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/2023\/may\/19\/cancel-culture-and-the-oxford-union\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cancel culture and the Oxford Union | Brief letters<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; Free speech | Crossword coincidence | Early readers | Rewilding too far | Lost Marxists&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-zEw","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":127609,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/hsbc-banker-quits-over-climate-cancel-culture\/","url_meta":{"origin":137052,"position":0},"title":"HSBC banker quits over climate \u2018cancel culture\u2019","date":"July 7, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"\r \r \r Source : telegraph.co.uk\r Read more...HSBC banker quits over climate \u2018cancel culture\u2019","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":148363,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/farmer-styles-need-an-illustrative-update-brief-letters\/","url_meta":{"origin":137052,"position":1},"title":"Farmer styles need an illustrative update | Brief letters","date":"December 4, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Archaic depictions of farmers | The \u2018wondrous\u2019 US constitution | Statues of limitations | Who\u2019s the mug? | Inflated egoThe illustration published with John Harris\u2019s column (1 December) showed a \u201ctypical\u201d farmer hoping for a break in the (economic) clouds. 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