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“Remember,” my ruminative academic friend Michael asked the other day, “when it was OK to like things?” Stroking his beard, he added, on the money as ever: “Not knowing whether it’s OK to like something has become the problem of our age”.

And what a dreary problem it is, too. Half of it concerns whether we’re allowed to like things that have violated the laws of political correctness – disgraced actors, comedians, writers, statues of white men from the past involved in Empire, even, as last week’s furore over the views of Sir Roger Scruton make clear, our brightest philosophers.

But the other half of this problem stems from a very different kind of culture war: what we are and aren’t allowed…