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Cancel Culture is the hot topic that seems to be in an endless cycle of debate, but that’s not why we’re here. To us, Cancel Culture is often the consequence of your actions, but unfortunate...
On the 15th of February 2023, before a hastily assembled press pack, Scotland’s first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, informed Edinburgh - and th...
How difficult is it to be damaged by the consequences of your own actions when you have power and profile to shield yourself from accountabi...
In the spring of 2022, two Spanish towns were getting ready to celebrate one of their most famous sons. Hundreds – possibly thousands – of t...
Celebrities can go from flavour of the month to persona non grata within minutes thanks to social media and a general shift towards more pro...
In late 1976, the Institute of Contemporary Art or ICA gallery in London unveiled its recent exhibition ‘Prostitution’, a retrospective grou...
This is the story of Ricky Gervais, a pioneer of sharp-elbowed comedy who decided to puncture his own legacy of speaking truth to power. In...
Jeremy Clarkson — the TV motor man and newspaper columnist — was clearly feeling extra miserable last Christmas when he decided to pen one o...
The American Music Awards, which have been running annually since 1974, occupy an illustrious spot within the American music industry. The A...
In the first half of the 20th century the literary scene was dominated by now revered authors, whose books have since become classics. It re...
From radio show host to Eurovision commentator and best-selling author, Graham Norton is a household name in the UK - his position cemented...
Some of the world’s best loved comedians have tiptoed on the edge of decency and political correctness from time to time. Take, for example,...
The year is 2004. George W. Bush is president, Britney is married to K-Fed, and the iPod Classic is the ultimate Christmas gift. But anyone...
1987 is a pretty bleak Christmas. The year is marked by disasters. The British economy is wrecked. It is a time when everyone could use some...
It’s January 2007: at least ten years before ‘cancel culture’ will become a part of our everyday life. The world is a less connected place....
December 20th, 2010. It’s pitch black on-stage at the Foxwoods Theatre in Broadway. Stunt performer Chris Tierney attaches himself to a safe...
Sometimes, those who get cancelled predict their own fall. They tempt fate, because to risk cancellation usually means to incite infamy. Som...
“You’ve got 3 minutes to change your life”. This is the sentence that Simon Cowell used as words of encouragement to contestants of televisi...
Originally founded in 1892 in New York City, by David T. Abercrombie, the fashion brand started as an outfitter for the elite outdoorsman. B...
2007 was a hellish year for Britney Spears. It began with the breakdown of her marriage and culminated in a patchy buzzcut, stalking and pub...
It’s 2013. Miley Cyrus has dramatically shed her Disney Channel persona with her hit track, Wrecking Ball. Daft Punk are dominating danceflo...
At the beginning of the 90s, mainstream pop belonged to a handful of female artists; Madonna, Whitney and Mariah Carey all owned the airwave...
Like most 21st century corporate crises, this one started with a tweet. On 8 January 2018, New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow took to...
James Charles felt, in a way, entirely original. And of course, for someone at the cutting edge of the internet, his cancellation had to fee...
In 2021, a record 493 new people became billionaires – on average there was a new billionaire created every 17 hours. Meanwhile in Britain,...
At the start of the millennium, Jeremiah Terminator Leroy or known simply as JT Leroy published his debut novel “Sarah”. Shortly afterwards,...
Although "The Slap Heard Around the World’ has secured the 94th Academy Awards’ place in the history books, the telecast had achieved moment...
On May 10th, 2019, the final episode of The Jeremy Kyle Show aired. It was cancelled five days later, with all content wiped from streaming...
It’s January 2022. Demurely dressed, Kate Clanchy sits in the UnHerd studio, a platform that prides itself on ‘challenging the herd’. Why co...
It’s hard to avoid the RuPaul’s Drag Race hype. The franchise seems to be constantly airing at least one of its {global spinoff series} at a...
Kevin Spacey. The master of the Hollywood anti-hero. At the helm of some of the greatest cinematic achievements, from The Usual Suspects to...
“But it was supposed to be funny.” It’s an excuse we’ve ALL heard and probably used when we’ve been confronted by our past mistakes and gone...
Janet Damita Jo Jackson, Britney Jean Spears. Two pop goddesses who entered the music game as kids and grew up to garner more critical and c...
Why do so many women get a hard time when they speak up? It’s like: How dare you do anything but sing, dance, play … entertain me? How dare...
Today’s topic has had many tweets, think pieces, and much mainstream media coverage devoted to it. And while the subject matter was initiall...
A controversy-courting YouTube chat show, a twitter clapback, and a verbal gymnastic session with a move so bold, so bewilderingly audacious...
Art and controversy go hand in hand. Many celebrated artists tiptoe on the edge of taste, decency and political correctness as a means to ex...
Think public takedowns or mass moral outrage, and social media is often the arena. A tweet, the weapon of choice. But people have been calle...
Summer 2020 was peak cancellation season and no one was safe. The murder of George Floyd forced people, who had otherwise had the privilege...
Retweets are not endorsements. That’s what people say. It’s become a universal disclaimer in our online discourse – used to dodge criticism...
If I could only choose one word – a polite, podcast-friendly word – to sum up the past 18 months, it’d be... ‘weird’. A global pandemic that...
TW: this episode features dicussion of sexual violence. It’s an age-old story –or at least, it’s becoming one. Subject –usually young, usual...
When Lana Del Rey burst onto the scene with the alt-girl anthem “Video Games” in 2011, the world was ready to welcome her and her melodic me...
You may know her as the first African American supermodel to grace the covers of Sports Illustrated and GQ with that body 'ody 'ody. You may...
From the start of his campaign to his ungracious – at best – defeat last year, Donald Trump has called for a boycott of – well, quite litera...
Here’s the thing about fame; it gives you carte blanche. Fame equals money equals access equals freedom –freedom to do pretty much anything...
There used to be a saying in the olden days, long long before the birth of content and cancel culture, it went like this - “today’s news is...
A story about a woman who found her Eden, shared it with everyone and then promptly lost it all. It’s a story about privilege, a collision o...
Today’s cancellation is a work in progress. Hailed as aqueer icon who blazed newtrails for gay people in the public eye,she’s now derided as...
It's January 2021 and what is likely to be the craziest celebrity story of the year (you’d hope) has already made waves across Hollywood, Po...
Jamil is best known for her body-positivity activism, having battled with anorexia as a teenage model, and a young woman navigating the fash...