The literary world is under siege from eraser-wielding ideologues. What can be done to preserve our disappearing culture? Create personal libraries and collect original works.
Freddie Attenborough, the comms officer of the Free Speech Union, reflects on the absurdity of the Cambridge Footlights advertising for 'sensitivity readers'. Is satire finally dead?
Here at the Daily Sceptic we consider ourselves at the leading edge of progressive mainstream journalism and are keen to maintain our position in the field by bringing sensitivity readers into our growing team.
14 year-old Jack Watson writes that sometimes he wishes Orwell did not write 1984, as it seems to have become a manual and not just a novel.
Ian Fleming's James Bond novels are the latest literary works to be butchered by sensitivity readers. Changes in racial language are one thing, but other edits reduce Fleming's descriptive flair to embarrassing clichés.
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.
