Why won’t the SNP stand up for Joanna Cherry?

The campaign by furious activists to destroy Edinburgh’s reputation as a great crucible of critical thinking continues apace. The home of the Enlightenment is under sustained attack. Students and – shame on them – staff at Edinburgh University have, for a second time, blocked the screening of the film Adult Human Female on campus. To allow the viewing and discussion of this documentary would, claim members of the mob, make the university an unsafe space.

Not to be outshone in this parade of idiocy, The Stand comedy club subsequently cowered before the screeching fury of gender ideology campaigners and cancelled a show due to take place during this year’s Edinburgh Festival featuring the SNP MP Joanna Cherry. Management at the venue – which is owned by Cherry’s fellow nationalist MP Tommy Sheppard – issued a statement declaring the ‘in conversation with…’ event would not go ahead after staff refused to cover it.

Cherry, a middle-aged lesbian, is one of Scotland’s fancy new witches, a feminist who dares to suggest that the Scottish government’s plan to allow trans people to self-ID into their preferred legally-recognised sex might have implications for women’s single-sex spaces.