You know, I’m starting to think those #BeKind folk aren’t half as kind as they make themselves out to be. How else to explain this meltdown over a man with Tourette’s being invited to the Baftas? It has exposed the limits of the ‘inclusivity’ preached by the virtue-signalling set.

A man who has had to struggle his entire life with humiliation due to his condition has been humiliated due to his condition, all in the glare of the world’s media,

A man who has had to struggle his entire life with humiliation due to his condition has been humiliated due to his condition, all in the glare of the world’s media,

It should have been one of the best nights of John Davidson’s life. The 54-year-old Scot and Tourette’s activist was at the Baftas with the crew of I Swear, a film inspired by his life growing up in the 80s and 90s. It lays bare the rough reality of living with the condition, with the lack of understanding of Davidson’s outbursts leading to bullying, beatings and trouble with the law.

Instead, the night ended in another unnecessary humiliation for him. Early on in the show, Davidson’s tics got the better of him. He began shouting and swearing. As Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo, the black stars of Jim Crow horror flick Sinners, presented a prize, he blared out........

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