What possessed a London library to invite a man dressed as a 'rainbow dildo butt-monkey' to read books to four year-olds? Steven Tucker isn't sure, but the fact that the area is 31% Muslim sums up modern Britain.
Forget about reading books, teenagers aren't even bothering with the internet anymore, discovers Joanna Gray. With social media algorithms feeding them entertainment, looking things up just doesn't feature.
Welsh librarians are being urged to avoid "racist" venues and tackle "whiteness" head-on in a £130,000 drive launched by the Welsh Labour Government to address systemic racism.
Universities and libraries are hastening the demise of print media – and Covid is still the excuse, says Aditya A. If you ask for a print newspaper they look at you as if there's something wrong with you.
Censorship is growing as librarians and curators increasingly take it upon themselves to try to protect readers from the supposed threat posed by "problematic" books, says Frank Furedi.
A new investigation by the Free Speech Union has revealed that local authority-run libraries are suppressing books by gender critical authors and energetically promoting ones by trans right activists.
If you want to discover the limits of free speech nowadays, talk about sex and gender, says Joanna Williams, whose upcoming talk on free speech and gender ideology has been cancelled by an Ontario public library.
The transmission of Covid via books is only feasible if an infected person coughs directly onto a page which is then touched within two hours. Given that this is easily mitigated, why has the SNP banned library visits?
