“I Lost Everything”: Noel Clarke Likens Cancel Culture To “Modern McCarthyism” After UK Police Cease Sexual Harassment Investigation

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British actor-producer Noel Clarke has spoken out for the first time since the Metropolitan Police announced that none of the allegations of being a sexual predator and bully made against the double BAFTA winner met the threshold for further police inquiry, and that they would be ceasing to investigate him.Clarke, who saw a catalogue of projects cancelled in the light of the allegations made against him and the closure of his production company, told the Daily Mail:“There has been no arrest, no charges, no trial, no verdict but I have been criminalised.

This is a form of modern McCarthyism.”He said: “If we don’t need police and judges and juries any more, if we only need social media and the broadcasters, then what world do we live in?

At what point did the broadcasters in this country become the judges, juries and executioners of people? At what point did BAFTA decide they were no longer about films, but they were about judging people’s lives?

This is not about me, it’s bigger, it’s about due process. Yes, people have said these things about me – but if I say you’re a donkey, it doesn’t make you a donkey, does it?”His comments come after BAFTA suspended his membership and withdrew its award to him for outstanding achievement in the British film industry, following the publication of the allegations in the Guardian newspaper.