Rosie Kay: How woke is killing the arts

Dec 30, 2025
50 mins

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Rosie Kay – choreographer, founder of K2CO and co-founder of Freedom in the Arts – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Rosie and Brendan discuss the staggering levels of self-censorship in Britain’s cultural institutions, the cancellations of Graham Linehan and Kate Clanchy, and how liberals abandoned the battle for artistic freedom.

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