Lancing the boil of cancel culture, with James Dreyfus

[@jonnywiles3068]

Offended by everything, ashamed of nothing.

[@jair9474]

James Dreyfus is a brilliant talented bloke. Hope we get to enjoy his talent for a long time in the future. Television in particular is in desperate need of talent like his.

[@abstractacus1598]

Actually ten years ago is when this new wave of political correctness really got going. That's the year I found myself in a bad situation (I was a support worker for 20 years before that) when the terminology became more real than the reality. Cover ups and faking documents etc began in earnest after the 2008 crash. The then Labour government began cutting standards of care whilst devising cool ways to make it seem like actually we were improving. OK, that does happen anyway but this was in hyperdrive. When I began questioning and frankly opposing this terminological double speak I was OUT, set up and bosh, gone, career (vocation really) over! Political Correctness is all lies, from the fake intellectualism, the caring sharing tolerance, anti racism and all the rest. The people into it mostly know this too. It is destructiveness encapsulated and these people believe that destruction is necessary for creation. As the acorn is obliterated when the seedling pops out of it, so then must people and societies be destroyed for utopia to be born. Idiots!

[@merxeddie6474]

Absolutely agree the the Blair government invented box ticking.In the Mental health field it became more important than actually talking to patients and addressing their problems.So interviews were based on endless forms which took up valuable time.It spread to every endeavour wether in commerce,education,medicine or the arts.

[@abstractacus1598]

@@merxeddie6474 ​ @Merx Eddie Indeed.. I remember finding my manager filling in all my tick boxes which I'd refused to do. I said, that work was never done cos you said we can't afford to do it anymore (recreational work like swimming, cinema etc). I wouldn't sign those forms, I think he signed my name in the end but I was suspended by then. Inspectors also didn't speak to the people even when I asked them to pick someone at random so they can hear what we do from the horses mouth. No, they just looked at the paper work. They called those forms evidence of work done but I called it what it was FRAUD. I flagged it all up but no one listened. Independent living became a bit like the lockdowns today with the illusion of independence only. People suffered, maybe they still are. But yeah that's PC, all fakery. Don't comply, lose your job and can't get another. later, more important people got what I got but they were saying nothing when workers like me were being purged. Only when it got to them did they start to see it.. I wonder how many people have now been set up and purged? Must be many thousands, hundreds of thousands perhaps and it will grow and grow and grow. Maybe that's what will eventually bring this fabricated rubbish down through sheer weight of numbers, who knows, we live in hope...

[@curiositykilledkat1]

Absolutely, Labour’s two cheeks of the same progressivism arse - Blair and Corbyn.

[@dopesensi]

Abstractacus the box ticking is/ was data collecting for our new robot overlords. Beep beep.

[@loubieloujones5698]

How nice is James Dreyfus? Intelligent, measured, relaxed. Very cool thanks Andrew

[@markkavanagh7377]

Gimme, Gimme, Gimme is a classic!!

[@vilgessuola]

I carelessly used 'Muslims' instead of 'islamists' on F/B, retracted it within minutes, but not before someone had taken a screen shot , sent it to HR and tried to get me fired. The 'investigation' was dragged out for 18 weeks.

[@hanachelache66]

I'm so sorry. What a horrible thing to go through. If it helps my family are Muslim and I appreciate that you made the distinction between Muslim and Islamist. People are just not forgiving at all. I hope your next workplace is kinder to you. :(

[@anniesue4456]

Well at least they didnt fire you instantly ... some consolation....

[@Joanna7428]

Brilliant conversation xx so glad for Andrew Doyle and the likes. James Drefus such a dude x

[@michaelrush6083]

Fabulous interview with one of my favourite actors thank you. Everything you both said was so true

[@md1trk]

James saying "Skills!" made me laugh. Takes me back.

[@monsieurlewop]

In 1997 I was dragged by a friend to see Julius Caesar at the Birmingham Rep. I wasn't keen as the title role was played by Michael Cashman, who is only ever wooden at his best. I didn't find out until it started that James was playing Cassius. He easily overcame any prejudices, not to mention the tediously predictable anachronistic staging, to deliver a stunning performance - easily one of my all-time favourite theatre experiences. I already loved him, but he soared in my estimation after that, and it was later thrilling to discover how sound he is politically/culturally.

[@eoiny]

I would be interested to hear Graham Linehan as a guest

[@Problembeing]

It’s so refreshing to hear two gay men resonating with how I also feel! THANK GOD I’M NOT ALONE!

[@roryoconnor861]

"Neo Nazi's dabbling in amateur dramatics". Sounds like a pitch at a Monty Python writing session. Brilliant

[@Joanna7428]

Really loved this interview, made my washing up bearable thanks lads 👍👍

[@jezt42]

A pleasure to listen to. As for all the questions Andrew didn’t ask, perhaps James could do another interview sometime in the future, as I’d love to hear more. As ever, thanks for the upload. 👍

[@SevenSagesRO]

You could ask him yourself on Twitter. twitter.com/DreyfusJames

[@glennparker4889]

I loved listening to James and Andrew. Thanks for this conversation.

[@randygault4564]

I'm glad to have found this show, and that it hasn't been Google-cancelled yet.

[@fainitesbarley2245]

It’s the ‘first man to stop clapping’ in Stalinist USSR.

[@BLMeredith87]

Perfect

[@AG-tj8ew]

Great chat. Entertaining & informative. Two brave souls challenging the current madness. Much appreciated.

[@Zakalwe-01]

Really wonderful chat. This is becoming a great podcast. Please extend it to 2 hours!

[@leeingram6292]

The down to earth common sense of James is needed in this time of stupid. Good interview. 👍

[@hanachelache66]

This is such a good Podcast. I loved James Dreyfus in Gimme Gimme Gimme and Notting Hill when I was growing up! Its lovely to see that he's such thoughtful and brave person in real life. What a great interview. :)

[@gailspencer4451]

This was such a nourishing broadcast to listen to.....I don't have a great deal of patience for actors at the best of times, but less now after listening to this. The idea of a sector of students putting a petition to an academic institution is preposterous. Petitions are for citizens and Parliament and the right and process is protected by constitutional law. Unless a body at inception has a petition and its submission in its constitution, if indeed it has one, there is no basis for presenting one. Universities, when they had progressive intellectuals, would be a litmus paper for the times. Now, they are a bastion for the disaffected - with far too many students studying useless degrees inevitably ending up working at Wetherspoons. I love Dreyfus.....he is reminiscent of the personalities hanging around Soho in the 60s and 70s.

[@markbrown4955]

Thanks for another conversation containing thought and ideas and the concept of individuality. Thank goodness for people like you.

[@merxeddie6474]

Another sensible man.A wonderful comedy actor Gimee,Gimee,Gimee,and the Thin Blue Line,classics of British TV.The lunacy by the self righteous RADA students is by their demands they are severely restricting their own careers by being replaced by racial /political acceptable applicants.

[@translunar1]

Excellent discussion. Thank you guys!

[@Problembeing]

Legend. Gratifying to hear him speak :)

[@Rikky999]

Excellent discussion, very much enjoyed it.

[@mattball3118]

Once everything is illegal, once we are all criminals, they will be free to round up whoever they so wish and lock them away in the name of equity and diversity. Any dissenters can just be locked away and forgotten about.

[@davidsparham658]

He was an amazing Master!

[@spm36]

What a great guy👍

[@1daveyp]

The Rushdie affair was the canary in the coalmine.

[@williammanning1028]

"This is London calling." Is this a fore-taste of the new underground radio broadcasts for the dark days ahead?

[@hayleylongster4698]

I love him so much.

[@welshhibby]

Great discussion Andrew !

[@kjd9634]

This has been the best culture wars to date. Excellent.

[@RevoltingPeasant123]

15:00 The problem is most definitely not that there are too few experts these days. We have an enormous expert surplus, this is well and truly an era of Scientism.

[@Gozzillacia]

I don't pay much attention to actors. But it's nice when one of the few you actually know and like, james Dreyfus here, turns out to be a decent human being.

[@JG-to8sp]

Very confusing moment when my car went from playing this show to hooking up to talk radio seamlessly. It took me 10 minutes to realise what happened and why it was Andrew Doyle was talking about the corona virus vaccine to talk radio callers.

[@JasperNagtzaam]

The Fawlty Towers audience that (apparently) didn't catch on was from Iceland...

[@leeingram6292]

James's down to earth common sense is needed in this time of stupid and how much was his Jimmy Saville sketch prophetic! wow.

[@JG-to8sp]

From the news... Ethiopia PM condemns civilian massacre. UK - Man sacked for saying ‘coloured’ when he should have said ‘person of colour’

[@ΜαρίαΚων-ι3β]

Timelessly...humans suffer from lack of self-awareness...self-respect..self-love..Therefore they see threats n enemies into anyone anything..we re the paradise exiles..hurt n lost..

[@peteconroy1348]

When telling the truth is politically incorrect, maybe its the politics that are wrong. Out of interest who was the doctor claiming victimhood that they were on about?

[@rachgrant8640]

Love the thumbnail

[@miriammorgan1140]

For stage fright.....try hypnotherapy....my husband is a multi-disciplined healer since the mid eighties....so I know it works. Try one session...that could open up another world ..if a great part turned up? For such a great actor ....xxx

[@schinaro]

Gosh! He sounds like such an older man these days.

[@transamination]

Makes you think.

[@subplantant]

@@transamination really does

[@peterlloyd5285]

Lance it, James. Lance it.

[@johnatkinson7479]

It’s simply about courage now..plain and simple, we know what where up against and while videos like this and many more are useful it’s just talk Are people able to have the courage? If not we will simply go out with a whimper and next generations of brits will live in a world that would make Orwell’s nightmare a reality

[@johnreid9959]

The thin blue line Goody wasn’t event gay In That police show

[@richardlbowles]

James Dreyfus ended the conversation with "It's been an absolute pleasure". Interesting choice of words, given that he said that children and SJWs (and the Sith, if Obi Wan Kenobi is to be believed) are the ones who deal in absolutes.

[@fixedstarsrise]

The post-campaign chaos and its possible resolution were foreseen in the following book:

[@johnreid9959]

Just thinking of all the people who did so much to keep Dr who alive in the hiatus or did for gay rights like Gareth roberts James Dreyfus or Graham lineham having their careers ruined over the trans issue now

[@eveningall8927]

I hear the alarm in your voices and I also feel very alarmed by this unaccountable insidious and highly dangerous cancel culture. Please can something change and everyone recognise the implications of their own hatred of the Other.

[@christopherstone9277]

Andrew thank you another interesting discussion. Such a shame though that you not doing a series on the environmental.matters, which needs discussing for all angles, rather than more on the culture war. Although I accept the later is far easier to monetise.

[@mrharpable]

They’re not grownups, they’re bigs

[@workslob]

Well doesnt it mean the demise of the university I cant see how they can carry on

[@workslob]

The saying today's newspapers are tomorrow's fish n chip wrapping is true je Suis charlie means nothing today.

[@RobinHood-yk8og]

If any 'creative' wants to see how to treat lockdown, pay a visit to Kevin James' KZbin channel.

[@mrharpable]

Of course mathematics is racist. It’s been colonized by arabic numerals! Thank you, I’ll be here all week.

[@theforthdoctor7872]

I use to subscribe to big finish, but their creeping pc culture is turning me away. I know that they have a huge problem with piracy, perhaps they plan is to make there content so awful that no one would copy it.

[@mrharpable]

The koran is hateful to many peoples hamza. You gonna prosecute that?

[@shaunpatrick8345]

It's not in the least bit absurd to accuse Rada of white supremacy. Whiteness is the way European people live, together with an appreciation of our history and culture, and white supremacy is the perpetuation of that way of life, history and culture in a multicultural society. Rada literally imposes whiteness "on people of colour". That is white supremacy and there is no way to end it without either "decolonising" Britain, as the students demand, or decolonising Britain, as rational British people are increasingly going to demand as this nonsense progresses.

[@karenmercer8785]

Well, the last time Britain was colonized was 4000 years ago by Neolithic farmers from Anatolia. Should be fun feeding millions on a hunter-garherer diet after it's "decolonized".

[@shaunpatrick8345]

@@karenmercer8785 those are the people they want to get rid of, but the colonisers doing that have been here for a lot less than 4000 years. Did you see the new 50p coin? A coloniser designed it, a coloniser introduced it, and the coin itself contains a pro-colonisation lie about the native population, putting the colonisers at the heart of the history of the country. When they talk of "decolonisation" you need to take them at their word; use of that word to analyse what they are doing is the only way to make sense of current events.

[@workslob]

This is really the 13yr old school children debate level