EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Cancelled 'Dreaded Meghan' professor returns to arts role

EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Cancelled 'Dreaded Meghan' professor returns to arts role

|She is the fine-arts lecturer who casually uttered the phrase 'the dreaded Meghan' just before delivering a talk, via Zoom, entitled 'Scandinavian Design 1880-1960', to the Truro branch of the Arts Society – only to be accused, subsequently, of using 'racist language'.

It was the beginning of a protracted nightmare for Dr Anne Anderson, who, until that spring evening in 2021, had given numerous Arts Society lectures every year for more than a quarter of a century.

In the aftermath of the allegation – made by a woman whose identity she was not allowed to know – Anderson was speedily cleared of making 'racist comments' only to lose three-quarters of her income and be left unable to sleep after she was, in her wo