Anyone who writes about more than fashion and food will find themselves looking over their shoulder to catch a glimpse of the thought police, that invisible nimbus of modern-day enforcers of approved ideas. Cancel culture has claimed many scalps in the last few years, but its true intended victims are the rest of us – the far larger number of speakers who realize they may be next, and who curb their speech, and even their thought, in the direction the enforcers desire. Surely Shakespeare can’t have much to say about …

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