Just a few weeks after someone tried to stab Dave Chappelle on stage. It feels like we're living through very challenging times for the principle of freedom of expression, particularly as it seems to be younger people who are most set against it.
I remember going into Dillons (what is now Waterstones) when I was younger and there was a huge Muslim man blocking people from accessing The Satanic Verses. It seemed so wrong that someone in another country could order the death of someone in the UK, purely for writing a book; like something from the times of the Inquisition or witch-hunts. However, there did seem to be a lot less mealy-mouthed relativism about the situation around then. Nowadays the media would be able to dig up several cultural commentators to say, 'Well, maybe Iran's gone a bit too far, but .....'