In this age of the snowflake, so alert are we to anything that might possibly offend delicate young people that when Dame Mary Beard, full-time Professor of Classics at Cambridge and part-time controversialist, announced that she was to give a prestigious public lecture series on ethics and the Ancient World, it was given a “trigger warning”.
In this age of the snowflake, so alert are we to anything that might possibly offend delicate young people that when Dame Mary Beard, full-time Professor of Classics at Cambridge and part-time controversialist, announced that she was to give a prestigious public lecture series on ethics and the Ancient World, it was given a “trigger warning”.
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