The following ‘short’ is from John Anderson’s YouTube site: https://www.youtube.com/@JohnAndersonConversations
John Anderson served as Deputy Prime Minister of Australia for 6 years between 1999 and 2005 under John Howard.
The short in this post was excerpted from an interview with Melanie Phillips: British journalist, broadcaster and author.
Links to the full interview are below, as are links to her websites.
In case you are unfamiliar with the purpose of John Anderson’s interviews, it is to discuss the social, cultural and political landscape we live in today with some of the world’s foremost thought leaders: a partial bio of Melanie Phillips is below the video.
The following partial bio is of the speaker, Melanie Phillips: British journalist, broadcaster and author:
Melanie Phillips unpacks the thought processes of those who seek to silence viewpoints opposing their own. She points out that cancellation movements share several characteristics: absolutism, resolute hostility to dissent and a blind adherence to ideology.
Melanie Phillips is a British journalist, broadcaster and author. Her weekly column, which currently appears in The Times of London, has been published over the years in the Guardian, Observer, Sunday Times and Daily Mail. She also writes for the Jewish Chronicle and Jewish News Syndicate.
Her best-selling book Londonistan, about the British establishment’s capitulation to Islamist aggression, was published in 2006. She followed this in 2010 with The World Turned Upside Down: the Global Battle over God, Truth and Power, and in 2018 with her first novel, The Legacy.
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