John Cleese and Andrew Graham Dixon

I agree Doodledog.

I don't think that this behaviour is from the 'so-called liberal left' at all. No-platforming and cancellation are strategies used by groups with a particular world view who also espouse slogans such as 'No Debate', have misogynistic tendencies and refuse to listen to anyone who disagrees.

Much more akin to alt right than the liberal left, IMO.

Humour is one of the most effective ways of challenging dangerous ideologies.

Or maybe they are passionate about a better future where we dont use events or people involved in horrific genocide as a punchline for a joke.

How ridiculous. Are Cambridge students big fans of Hitler and didn’t like seeing him mocked or something? I hope they never discover YouTube, the poor little darlings will have the vapours.

Andrew Graham-Dixon is a wonderful writer and broadcaster. I have several of his books and think he is first rate in his field. The idea that he should be no platformed because of a minor jest is ridiculous. The intolerance of other people’s opinions by certain groups is staggering and bodes ill for the future. The so called liberal left are more akin to Stalinism. Students are supposed to go to University to get an education, not to rewrite history or refuse to read or listen to anyone they don’t agree with.
We’ll have mass book burnings next. First they put the books on the bonfire, then the authors whose opinions/actions they don’t agree with follow them. They do it now before a book is even published by threatening boycotts if something they don’t agree with is published. Society is being shaped and manipulated by the ignorant.
Heaven help us all.

Just a phase, it will be something else soon. It is what students do, it’s part of the growing up process.