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The dissolution of a free society

The dissolution of a free society

Those enabling it should be called out for their cowardice, third-ratery or ideological malice

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Melanie Phillips
Feb 01, 2022
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Tarring and Feathering the Prophet; CCA Christensen, 1831-1912

In my column today for the Times of London (£), I wrote about the shocking treatment of author Kate Clanchy who provoked a multiple Twitter pile-on as a result of her prize-winning memoir about teaching in British schools, Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me. 

She was accused of being “…

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