Andrew Graham Dixon

[Nearly Sane]

'"The society president, whose term ends in December, said he would still recommend to his successor "that Andrew Graham-Dixon ought not be re-invited back".

He added: "Our speakers may say what they wish in our chamber, and absolutely never need to fear that anything they say will put them on a list of any sort"

Bit dumb, the president


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-59254677

[SusanDoris]

'"The society president, whose term ends in December, said he would still recommend to his successor "that Andrew Graham-Dixon ought not be re-invited back".

He added: "Our speakers may say what they wish in our chamber, and absolutely never need to fear that anything they say will put them on a list of any sort"

Bit dumb, the president


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-59254677

Hmmmm, interesting. At the moment my braille book is 'Playing to the Gallery' by Grayson something, an artist. It is only three small volumes so is only a small book, but he is talking about good taste and what is quality in art. He talks about the art world and how it has gone through a stage of anyone being able to state something is art, or if something fails, call it an art project!

Perhaps the world of debate and discussion has gone too far in its idea that nothing can be said which might offend someone somewhere, some time!

[The Accountant, OBE, KC]

Mr Bradwell said Mr Graham-Dixon offended members when he used Hitler's "deplorable" words about Jewish and black people in his speech.

He later said: "We will create a blacklist of speakers never to be invited back, and we will share it with other unions too. Andrew will be on that list."

It is good that Mr Bradwell appears to have changed his mind but I would like to ask Mr Bradwell his views on not allowing speech that would be offensive about black people, while employing the term "blacklist". The English language is full of phrases and descriptions that say black = bad and white = good. I would enjoy seeing him try to unpick that.