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STOP EDITING OUR BOOKS

The problem with censoring Roald Dahl’s books, and cutting out references to weight, height, mental health, gender and skin colour in order to try and minimise any offence, is that it’s pointless. Anyone reading those books, child or adult, will still know that Augustus Gloop is fat and greedy, and that the

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