Has the vibe shift finally hit the publishing world? There might just be some hope that one of the industries most captured by woke scolds, by the nonbinary heirs of Mary Whitehouse, has finally clocked which way the cultural winds are blowing – away from cancel culture and identity politics and towards something freer and saner.
This apology will be cold comfort for Clanchy, whose brush with cancel culture was particularly brutal – and totally unearned
You may remember Kate Clanchy, the celebrated author whose cancellation in 2021 was among the most heinous of the post-BLM mania. Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me, her hit memoir about her days teaching in an Oxford comprehensive, was smeared as racist and her publisher did what was then expected of it and threw her under t

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