In the next few programmes I’m going to tell you a story about courage involving one unlikely playerthe New York Times (definitely not the courageous one), and these other people – Republican Senator Tom Cotton (and Trump supporter), Bari Weiss (an opinion editor with the Times hired to find stories that the Times wouldn’t normally tell, George Floyd (you know who he is), Black Lives Matter (you know who they are), Adam Rubenstein (a junior editor with the Times) and 2 women who have been dead now for an awfully long time, who, when they were alive, were both very low on the social scale compared to the person they deliberately disobeyed with major consequences for the entire world, they were midwives. But unlike most people today, it seems, had the courage to defy the most powerful man in the world because what he wanted them to do wasn’t right.
The question is, is the courage of those long dead women, also now long dead in our society today, because if it is, we’re in serious trouble. This story, that I’m about to tell you suggest that it might be mostly dead and that’s a worry.
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