News Round-Up
23 October 2024
by Will Jones
Democrats Are No Longer Hiding Their Plan to Censor America
22 October 2024
by Will Jones
A female publisher is pursuing her case for unfair dismissal after she was hounded out of her job for publishing gender-critical author Kathleen Stock. These woke witch hunts must stop.
Woke books that were bought for huge advances by inexperienced editors have flopped commercially, insiders say, including a $500,000 'queer feminist' novel (3,500 copies) and Elliot Page's $3m trans memoir (68,000 copies).
The corrosive, killjoy woke ideology is killing art and literature by imposing intolerable rules like a ban on 'cultural appropriation', says Lionel Shriver. "My response to rules I don’t accept is to break them."
Woke censors at Puffin have ruined the much-loved works of Roald Dahl, making hundreds of changes that replace his vivid, darkly funny writing with bland platitudes and outright propaganda.
Nigel Biggar's book, which concludes the British Empire was not all bad, appears to have been cancelled by Bloomsbury due to “public feeling”. Is this another example of the woke takeover of publishing?
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