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thetimes.co.uk/bulletinsOffended by Irvine Welsh
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{{{((‘A
re we more offended than
ever these days? Are artists
and writers running
scared?” wondered the
Trainspotting writer Irvine
Welsh, making what looked like a late
bid to be a contestant on the Basil
Fawlty edition of Mastermind once
envisioned for Sybil. Irvine Welsh,
fearless chronicler of society’s
underbelly, specialist subject: the
bleedin’ obvious.
“I want human beings to have
the confidence to question and to
genuinely offend,” he went on. “I am
convinced fiction is essential in this
instantly offended world.” Some of his
novels, he admitted, probably wouldn’t
be published now, so he had skin inthis game as well as fire in his belly.
The guardians of culture used to be
the powerful right, was the line, but
they are now, well, The Guardian. For
Welsh, activism is now bourgeois,
“the middle-class cultural police force”
clicking keyboards as a means of
controlling and silencing people. As
a consequence, creative people have
become nervous and self-censoring.
Given that it’s such a reasonable and
breathtakingly sane position, it made
for a civilised debate, if at times
slightly enervating television. Welsh
probed and prodded with great
warmth, intelligence and skill, but
Offended by Irvine Welsh was more
of an essay with a through-line that
rarely deviated. The interviews had
a usual-suspects feel about them
too — the controversial artist Jake
Chapman, the Tory comedian Geoff
Norcott and Andrew Doyle, the
satirist behind the posh woke activist
spoof character Titania McGrath. All
of them wondered, in varying ways,
why people can’t just live with being
offended these days and what we’re
so scared of.
Welsh also supported his case by
a writing exercise: making a passage
from his 1998 novel Filth politically
correct by changing some dialogue.
It was funny to watch, even if it was
hardly surprising that replacing
the words “c**n” and “poof” with
“people of colour” and “gay people”probably didn’t quite capture the
character’s misogyny, racism and rage
quite as effectively.
The Somali-British writer Nadifa
Mohamed offered some grit to this
oyster. She argued that young people
are increasingly able to “dictate the
terms” of debate and offered what felt
like the only defence of cancel culture,
albeit a mild and conditional one. She
said it could be seen as “the voice of
the unheard, this desire to take
someone down who’s powerful and
has been powerful for a long time”.
In her company Welsh politely
declared that he was an “old, white
straight male”, and their exchanges
were fascinating in the way they
served to underline a generational
divide at the heart of this subject. Yet
Welsh did make it clear that he had
a problem with Mohamed’s use of the
word “dictate”, and the pair talked
with civility, which is more than you
get on Twitter these days.
Probably the most interesting
person was MIA, the British rapper
from a Tamil family who has been
“cancelled” for daring to question
Black Lives Matter orthodoxy,
meaning that a brilliant musician and
original voice has been censored. Little
wonder she delivered the soundest
piece of advice all night and yet
another thing to agree with. “The most
creative thing right now,” she advised
Irvine Welsh and the rapper MIA discussed the issue of offence us, “is to get off f***ing social media.”No offence, Irvine, but this was all a bit obvious
SKY UKBen Dowell
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