Rewriting the children’s author is about profit not ‘wokeness’ – part of the endless recycling and exploitation of old ideas
ood news for me: the series of ITV’s. A lot. In fact, I would have italicised the word “hate” to emphasise the fact, if I hadn’t worried that it would look weird next to the italicised title of the programme. But please imagine it was italicised.and, having heard only positive reports, am convinced I would enjoy it. I haven’t watched it as a point of principle because, in my view, it shouldn’t exist.
If you haven’t made all audiences absolutely sick of any intellectual property you control, you’re wasting money to make hundreds of changes to the new editions of Dahl’s children’s books. The aim is to remove some of the nastiness to which modern readers might object – or modern readers’ teachers or parents might object on their behalf. This has been criticised by many, from Coleen Nolan to, on the basis, as Sunak’s spokesperson put it, of “the right to free speech and expression”.
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