Cancel culture: Victim status for bigots or a growing threat to critical thinking and free speech?

As a storm of controversy rages over the “de-platforming” of Joanna Cherry and Edinburgh University’s failed attempts to show the film Adult Human Female, Calum Ross finds out what led to so-called “cancel culture” – and whether the phenomenon itself should now be cancelled.

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