How to take on the culture warriors

Gavin McCormick

“THE ERA OF CULTURE WARS IS OVER,” announced Lisa Nandy, in her maiden speech as the new Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport in July. For Nandy, our recent “polarisation, division and isolation” will soon be a distant memory, once the UK becomes a “self-confident, outward looking country”. Naturally some will doubt whether the arrival of a new Labour government really will move us out of the darkness into the light, where socially liberal lambs may find sudden comfort at the prospect of lying with hardleft wolves in the field of culture. For the sceptically inclined, it is all too plain that the manifold issues which have given rise to our present “culture wars” are simply too knotty, important and even plain ugly to be nonchalantly dismissed as…

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