John Cleese on extremism: “The great thing about having enemies is that you can pretend all the badness in the whole world is in your enemies, and all the goodness in the whole world is in you." "You can be as nasty as you like and yet feel your behaviour is morally justified.” This video was created two decades before Twitter and Facebook—yet brilliantly explains the psychology of today's extremists who flourish in the age of social media. | Labour Heartlands

FULL INTERVIEW: Monty Python's John Cleese to FIRE: Cancel culture is "totalitarian!" That's what the comedy legend told FIRE's Greg Lukianoff in a recent conversation where the two friends discussed everything from comedy and cancel culture to the religious controversy surrounding 1979's Life of Brian. The Fawlty Towers creator also said, "It's not just protest. It’s trying to get people fired. I don’t mind people protesting; that’s fine. But if you set out to get someone fired … that’s very to