Academic and author professor Nigel Biggar CBE says his book was cancelled by Bloomsbury Publishing because “woke junior employees” protested against publishing anything they didn’t agree with.
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Mr Biggar’s book on colonialism was cancelled by his publisher after it concluded that the British empire was not all bad but it’s now set to be published on Thursday. “For some reason I don’t understand, the grown-ups in senior management caved in,” he told Sky News Australia host Piers Morgan.
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