“I’m very, very scared by what you’re calling cancel culture,” he told the Hay Festival. “I think what is happening to writers is extremely dangerous, where certain words are hidden, where certain thoughts are not allowed anymore, where certain activities [are not allowed], obviously to do with gender or to with ethnicity or to do with trying to share the experiences of others.”
He also told the audience to watch Ricky Gervais
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