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Friday, May 19, 2023

Cancel culture and the Oxford Union | Brief letters

Free speech | Crossword coincidence | Early readers | Rewilding too far | Lost Marxists

So the Oxford Union is now under pressure from the cancel culture (Academics condemn ‘threats’ against Oxford Union in Kathleen Stock row, 17 May). I recall a Union debate in the early 60s when one of the speakers was Oswald Mosley. He was given a pretty rough ride. But the idea that we might have been forbidden to hear and debate his views would have been unthinkable.
John Prescott Thomas
Bristol

• I read the paper at breakfast time on Wednesday and sent off my email about Dorothy’s dog (Letters, 17 May) just after 8am. Then I did the quick crossword at lunchtime – and the clue for 10 across was “Dorothy’s dog”. How weird is that!
Pam Fraser
Cumnor, Oxfordshire

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