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Candice Holdsworth

Talk Breakfast with Duncan Barkes | 10-Oct-26

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  • “Like, I know non-Christians who'll say, yeah, I'll just fly on Christmas Day because it's cheaper. Like, for them, it's just another day. They don't get offended by it.”

Candice Holdsworth critiques the culture of taking offence on behalf of others, arguing that heavy-handed messaging around Christmas creates unnecessary division despite many non-Christians being indifferent to the holiday. She contends that performative outrage from third parties often frustrates those they claim to defend.

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I'm not a Christian, I don't celebrate it, but you crack on, love, it's perfectly all right. But the problem is, you create division when you start issuing big tats like this. Exactly, you know, you're so right. Like, I know non-Christians who'll say,

yeah, I'll just fly on Christmas Day because it's cheaper. Like, for them, it's just another day. They don't get offended by it. No one's getting offended by anything. So what we have now in this country, don't we, we have a culture where people get offended

on behalf of other people, and sometimes those people who they think might be offended just go, I don't know why you're bothering me, really. All right, Candice Holdsworth, always a pleasure. Thank you for coming in, political commentator Candice Holdsworth here on Talks Weekend Breakfast.

I'm Duncan Barks, I'm here through until 10 o'clock this morning. After seven, we go through more of this morning's big news stories. We have Philip Kisley, senior fellow at the New Culture Forum, also Simon Damzak,

former Labour MP and reform defector. And a little bit later on in the next hour, I mentioned farmers earlier. We have a sad story that four in 10 farmers are looking to quit because they did not feel supported by this government.

Who would have thought it? We talked to one of this country's greatest farmers, campaigner as well, Gareth Wynn-Jones, a little bit later on here on Talks Weekend Breakfast. And keep your messages coming in, 0344 499 1000. It's almost seven o'clock.

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