The recent news that EM Forster’s masterpiece A Passage to India has been the latest classic book to be slapped with a trigger warning by its US publisher, this time …
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Maybe he was born under a bad sign because Jack Reacher is about to be in a whole other world of trouble in Reacher season 2. The former military policeman …
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Martin Walser, who has died aged 96, was a prolific novelist – at one point producing a book a year – but his role in German life was wider than …
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A Florida school district is censoring William Shakespeare to conform with governor Ron DeSantis’s controversial “don’t say gay” law. Students will only be allowed to read excerpts of the Bard’s …
Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet cancelled by DeSantis’s ‘don’t say gay’ law Read More
A new trans awareness guide published at the University of Leeds is urging against using ‘he’ to mean people, despite people calling the move “seriously bonkers advice”. The 12-page pamphlet, …
University of Leeds tells students not to use the pronoun ‘he’ in bizarre new advice Read More
The creative director of The Beano has opened up about hiring sensitivity readers to adapt to the modern age ahead of the comic’s 85th anniversary. Mike Stirling, 48, has revealed …
Woke ‘sensitivity readers’ overhaul The Beano as British comic given modern make-over Read More
More than 100 copies of the Duke of Sussex’s memoir have been abandoned by holidaymakers abroad so far this summer. On The Beach, the online tour operator, said that it …
Britons bin their copies of Prince Harry’s memoir on holiday Read More
Des Lynam is sounding very excited. Or at least as close as the coolest broadcaster of his or any other era comes to sounding excited. “It’s like getting the old …
Lynam and Hill back together again — ‘how wonderful!’ Read More
John Nettleton, who has died aged 94, was a prolific character actor for more than half a century. He was admired for the dozens of classical supporting roles he took …
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A first edition copy of JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit has sold for more than £10,000 after it was discovered by chance in a charity shop. Adam Carsley was in a …
First edition copy of The Hobbit found in a charity shop sells for a huge amount Read More