“Peak Woke”

James Bond books edited to remove racist references

James Bond novels have been rewritten to remove a number of racial references from Ian Fleming’s work, The Telegraph can reveal.

All of the author’s thrillers featuring 007 are set to be reissued in April to mark 70 years since Casino Royale, the first book in the series, was published.

A major Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibit rejects beauty and cultivates racial resentment

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has mounted an exhibit whose curatorial philosophy, were it widely adopted, would spell the end of art and of art museums. The art press greeted the show ecstatically, as a sign of the Met’s new direction. This prognosis is undoubtedly correct.

Fictions of Emancipation (on view through March 5, 2023) is built around an 1873 sculpture by the brilliant French sculptor Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux. The marble bust, titled Why Born Enslaved!, portrays a black woman, bound by a rope, looking over her left shoulder with a piercing expression of defiance, incredulity, and contempt.

Students are becoming less interested in cancel culture, a leading Harvard professor has suggested.

Arthur Brooks, Social science professor, said that the wave of academics or students who have been persecuted for their political and ideological views on campuses has “crested”.

Intense disagreements at British universities have resulted in fierce clashes between staff and students, with academics leaving their jobs as a result.

The author’s books have been edited for fear of offending. Kids should be allowed to read them in their full, nasty, colourful glory

I grew up devouring Roald Dahl’s stories. His wonderful imagination, his ability to turn a phrase, his brilliantly colourful characters all fostered a love of reading that led me towards a career in books.

As a seven-year-old, I saw myself as Matilda more than any other character and spent a considerable amount of time trying to move objects via the power of my brain.

People who worked in hospital clinics in the United States and Great Britain are blowing the whistle on the rush to prescribe puberty-blocking drugs and surgeries to children suffering from gender dysphoria.

Their claims are shocking: thousands of children, many if not most of whom may be gay, lesbian, or bisexual, and suffering anxiety disorders and autism, are being sterilized for a psychiatric condition that most will grow out of.

Just like “repressed memories.” A lot of lawsuits will be launched but what is really needed is a Nuremburg 2.0 for these maniac medicos.

Elon Musk, the libertarian billionaire who drives progressives all over the world crazy, has just written that we live in a disturbing middle ground between Orwell’s 1984, Huxley’s Brave Brave New World and Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451.

Without mentioning the Nazis and the Soviets, Islamic regimes have problems with books. Erdogan’s Turkey has replaced Shakespeare and Brecht in state theaters with Turkish authors. He also threatened books by William S. Burroughs and “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck with censorship. A cache of half a million books was discovered in a hangar in Tehran, including Orwell’s “Animal Farm”, George Bernard Shaw and Albert Camus, Homer’s “Iliad”. They were not liked by the Islamic Revolution, which had seized them.