In this week’s episode of London Calling, James and I discuss his profound sense of loss now that the hunting season is over; whether Bill Gates really is an evil mastermind, the inevitability of ’15 minute’ cities and Toby’s concern that James’s pessimism about the future is making him mentally ill; the Global Warming Policy Foundation’s damning new report on wind power; Humza Yousef becoming the new leader of the SNP and why that’s good news for unionists; the mobbing of Kellie-Jay Keen in New Zealand; and, in Culture Corner, the new season of Succession, a new series on Netflix called The Night Agent, the first of Anthony Trollope’s Palliser novels (Can You Forgive Her?) and Royal Flash, the second of George MacDonald Fraser’s Flashman novels.
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What a coincidence, I am reading Royal Flash at the moment after coming across Flashman at the Charge recently. I enjoyed it so much I emailed the publisher demanding that they set their sensitivity readers on it since I regard such attention as a mark of distinction for a book, just as being shortlisted for the Booker Prize is the opposite.
I suggest that we do the same for all our favourite offensive books. If acted upon it would both highlight the ridiculousness of the modern Bowdlerisation and also attract attention to them.