Brilliant article by Rosie Kay “This is the madness of the culture wars at full tilt. If it weren’t real, you’d think it was satire. But Khoo’s real-life work may yet go down in the art history books as….” link in next post

Rosie Kay Yes. Art that allows "multiple truths to exist in tension" must be defended. Or we are all silencing ourselves.

Against the new witch-hunt in the arts thecritic.co.uk/against-the-ne…

This week's The Times and The Sunday Times column is about NHS Fife, which surely tolled the bell for the diversity officer, a job made for these times thetimes.com/comment/column…

This is great journalism. Oh what a tangled Web. thetimes.com/article/d57e3f…

Precise and well executed piece. It's a shame we need Freedom_In_The_Arts but we definitely do

If we do not protect artistic freedom, writes Rosie Kay, we’ll have no art left that’s worth a damn thecritic.co.uk/against-the-ne…

Robust defence of artistic freedom by Rosie Kay “The artist is no longer just the creator of the work; she is treated as a proxy, a vector for all that is supposedly wrong in society” Art is meant to provoke, but how we respond is a measure of our own understanding

Brilliant piece by Rosie Kay on how ideological tribalism -- from all sides -- is killing art. Each artist must now be tested. Is she loyal to the cause? Has she been ideologically vetted? Art comes second — loyalty first. If she fails the test, the sentence is clear. She

‘The lesson is not that art must be safe, or that all views are equal, or that everyone must agree. It’s that participation is difficult, pluralism is fragile, and the artist’s job is not to resolve tension but to hold it’ (& public institutions exist to create space for that)👇

I am banging on again about equality law compliance again… linkedin.com/posts/audrey-l…

Calling all British newspapers: I am available to review Nicola Sturgeon’s memoir. No fee required as long as you don’t edit out the swear words.

"They do this by quantifying minorities and gamifying vulnerabilities, keeping track of which disabilities are up and which are down, as if the human condition were a stock market." Delicious article on a job that has caused so much harm to so many workplaces/ sectors.

So, I won. A full appeal hearing will be scheduled...at some point. Thanks as always to Lucy Hunter Blackburn, Brooke, Wings Over Scotland, and Joe Bryce for all their help, and also to my amazing fiancé.

*Good personal news klaxon!* Delighted to say I've been asked to join The Scotsman as a regular columnist, every Monday, starting next week. Enjoyed writing some pieces for them last month and looking forward to a regular column. Onwards! x

Surely the @bbc has had enough historic problems with presenters and their interest in children to know this is a red flag?

Social sabotage is when someone tries to harm another person's social life or relationships on purpose. This can happen in many ways, such as spreading rumors excluding someone from a group or making fun of them in front of others. The goal of social sabotage is to make the

Immediate reflections on today’s events at the Sandie Peggie tribunal. I’ve now been ‘in the room’ and have witnessed first hand the so-called clever people like doctors and lawyers inexplicably blind to their hypocritical double standards. They will bend over backwards to