Oscar winner: Even I as a progressive don't feel safe from cancel culture

“I’m now looking at how to make a contractual requirement in places where I work, because I don’t feel safe.” The contract [Mark Rylance] envisages, would mean that, “If anyone in the workplace, man or woman, is accused of saying something, they’re judged by their peers. There should be a committee in the West End … made up of union members and peers, who hear both cases.

Law breakers must be dealt with, of course, but these issues involve colleagues and various interpretations.

“The cancellation culture is too merciless and puritan for me. There should be the option of mediation, the chance for the accused to apologise and to redeem themselves. We cannot, in our human consciousness, decide that someone is past redemption.” Rylance adds: “Eventually, love and forgiveness is the only way through.”