The Booker Prize for ignorance

Sadly, no surprise that this literary award has succumbed to our cultural madness

Sep 15, 2021

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Scarcely a day goes past without some cultural titan or other jumping on the anti-west bandwagon. Apart from the intolerance, prejudice and gross abuse of power usually involved, what never fails to stupify is also the extent of the ignorance that it displays.

Consider. The shortlist for the Booker Prize for fiction has been announced. Today’s Times (£) …

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