When politics lord it over truth, morality and goodness, nothing works as it should

We need even more courage, even more selflessness and a willingness to persist with the truth

OPINION By Jasmine Birtles

MORAL courage used to be a thing. In fact, courage itself used to be a thing; but it seems to be getting the life sucked out of it in today’s self-involved, snowflake world.

We are seeing the effects of a lack of moral courage within our institutions daily now.

Last month, IPSO (the press watchdog) ruled that Gareth Roberts, a freelance journalist writing for the Spectator, was wrong to refer to the author June Dawson as ‘a man who claims to be a woman’, even though that is the actual fact.

Admittedly it was a discourteous way of describing the writer and not something that I would write, but it was nonetheless factual.

It’s part of the nonsense, upside-down world we live in that an organisation supposed to uphold correctness in journalism now actually marks people down for correct journalism.

That’s bad enough but when I wrote to my union about supporting ‘gender reality’ in journalism their responses showed that fear rules their decisions and they would rather let truth and reality slide than express the tough love of moral courage.

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