E K A W UP…
and listen to Piers! The world needs your book – do you think people WILL wake up and listen? I hope so. We’ve all been given the biggest wake up call of our lives with this pandemic and it’s an opportunity for all of us to take a good long hard look at ourselves and decide what kind of society we want to be when we come out of it. The crisis has brought out the best and worst in people – we need to see more of the former and less of the latter going forward. Why have we lost our common sense and can we get the “Great” back into Britain? I think social media is mostly to blame – it’s made people very tribal and allergic to 26 schoolnotices.co.uk WINTER 2020
proper debate where you listen to opposing views, respect them, and perhaps adjust yours accordingly. Now the ‘cancel culture’ is so insidious and widespread that people are terrified of expressing opinions for fear of the backlash from the woke outrage machine. It’s absurd and dangerous for free speech. Do you think the snowflake generation is self-perpetuating? It will be if we don’t get a grip of the way we teach young people and encourage them to be more resilient and less ‘anxious’ about everything. I blame participation prizes in school sport – it makes kids think life is never about losing when of course, it is.
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It’s time to set our alarms, open our eyes and ‘Wake Up’. Piers Morgan tells us why he ‘woke’ sit still until we’ve cancelled the cancel culture and got back some much needed common sense
