Actor says laughter is best when forbidden, as survey finds two-thirds don’t know what ‘cancel culture’ is
“Cancel culture” risks wiping out comedy altogether, the actor Dame Maureen Lipman has claimed. The Coronation Street star warned that some comedians were being prevented from ever working again for having offended people, though she offered no example.
A new YouGov poll suggests more than half of people would avoid expressing a political or social view in case they encounter criticism, with those holding the most regressive views – such as opposition to people coming from abroad to live in the UK – more likely to do so.
