Newspaper says event ‘gives us cause for concern’ after protests outside its officesThe New York Times has scrapped plans to sponsor one of the world’s biggest oil industry conferences after pressure from climate campaigners including Extinction Rebellion.There were protests outside the newspaper’s offices in Manhattan this month over the Oil...

Criticising past authors for their views doesn’t mean we must consign their books to the scrapheapIn 1965 the eminent American science-fiction writer John W Campbell wrote an essay titled The Barbarians Within. In it, he recommended that “the barbarian” – and it was clear he meant African Americans – be...