celebrity cancel culture, which he analogized to a modern-day form of “McCarthyism.” The 75-year-old Laurence Olivier award winner dropped the bombshell during a Thursday appearance on Piers Morgan’s show “Uncensored” on TalkTV.“It is a kind of modern-day McCarthyism really,” Cox told the host of the so-called witch hunt, in which celebs are excommunicated from Hollywood for certain actions and opinions. “It is a kind of raid on people’s sensibilities in order to reduce them and make them… I don’t know, there is so much hypocrisy in the whole thing.”The thespian continued, “I am not religious but there is a thing in the bible where it says, ‘Let he or she without sin cast the first stone’ and there seems to be a lot of casting of stones. And it is like a virus.”Cox was in good company while discussing the negativity of cancel culture with Post columnist Piers Morgan, who recently vowed to wipe out the damning trend.“My mission statement for this show is simple: I’m canceling cancel culture,” Morgan told “Piers Morgan Uncensored” viewers in April.
Call for St George's Day to be made bank holiday as thousands take to the streets for first parade since coronavirus
24.04.2022 - 19:41 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Thousands of people took to the streets to watch the first St George's Day parade since the coronavirus pandemic. The popular annual event has not been held since 2019, but Manchester bathed in sunshine to welcome the return of the celebration.
Military vehicles, a brass band, bagpipe players and a Winston Churchill impersonator were among the highlights of the parade, which begun in Miles Platting just after noon. It then moved onto Oldham Road, before taking in the Northern Quarter and Piccadilly Gardens and then circling back to Miles Platting.
Families lined the streets to wave to participants in the parade, which also included a group of women dressed as the wives of Henry VIII, as well as musical performances from the Oldham Scottish Pipe Band. Parade organiser Thelma McGrail said: "We have been doing it 17 years, it has been getting better and better.
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"This year is a bit lax with people still having Covid, but it will be bigger and better next year." The parade was led by the Lord Mayor of Manchester, Coun Tommy Judge, who was also joined by city centre council chief Coun Pat Karney.
He said Manchester Council is in favour of allocating the day, commemorating England's patron saint, as a bank holiday. Coun Karney said: "It's absolutely brilliant to see it all back, there was a great reception on the streets of Manchester.
"It was lovely to see loads of kids smiling with their parents, and waving at the parade. A big thank you to Thelma and the volunteer team who pull it together. Manchester Council have always said that St George's Day should be a national holiday like St Patrick's Day is in Ireland."
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