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Absolutley. I sometimes think that my wife only wanted kids so that she had an excuse to read children's books. We did all the ones from our respective childhoods; Blyton, Nesbitt, E.B White, Seuss, Scarry, Crompton, Dahl, Graeme, but then there are so many other great ones for all age groups...

I think that the point is the date. Sadowitz, who was 50 at the time, not 60, said that about Savile in 2011, the year he died, the year the BBC was doing their tributes to him. The previous quote posted was from 1997, when Sadowitz was 36 and Savile was still very much alive, very powerful...

You'd know more than me. I stumbled through the first one when reading it to my daughter at bedtime and have never watched any of the films. My kids read a lot of different books during their childhood and did enjoy the Potter films, but have never got very far with any of the books. My...

That isn't 'another way of looking at it' that is a misinterpretation of what I said. Having a different opinion and having no prior knowledge of a subject are completely different things. I am happy for two mechanics with the same qualfications to argue over the best way to fix my car. I...

It seems to me that as far as he has control, he has taken all of the actions that you suggest. That's why it has taken so long for him to be involved in this kind of brouhaha. I think that the advent of social media has shifted the power balance between audience and performer and that where...

I can understand the ambivalence. After seeing him once and laughing an awful lot on the night, I've never felt the urge to go and see him again. Jimmy Carr has spoken about his favourite audience reaction being a laugh followed by a sound of disapproval. He argues that its a pure response...

I quite liked Brian Logan's piece in The Guardian on this fuss: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/16/jerry-sadowitz-cancelled-show-comedy-free-speech The last line about the warning in the title of JS's show reminded me of Stewart Lee's schtick about 'Don't Bring Your...

Prose means 'not poetry'. Its a description, not an insult. 'Ploddingly turgid' was the insult.

I'd say 'Why don't people just read the books?', but having made that mistake myself, I realise that, according to JRR, 'the stories as they need to be told' means incredibly slowly, with endless unnecessary and over detailed description of whatever landscape the characters happen to be passing...

The only interpretation of Tolkein that I need was provided by Hugo Dyson.

The position this has put the internet's anti-trans brigade into seems quite ironic. They have spent ages arguing that allowing trans women to use the toilets of their choice will create unacceptable risk of exposure and now find themselves arguing that a man who reportedly flashed his genitals...

'Offensive' is a red herring here. Everything is offensive to somebody. Those who would have us all believe that there is a Woke Stasi dictating what artists can and cannot say are fixated on symptom rather than cause. Trace all of these stories to their root and they are all about balancing...

Wrong in both cases with Sadowitz. He's very sharp, but hasn't made money, because he wouldn't/couldn't make the compromises necessary to make a sustained TV/media career possible. He's incredibly protective of his recorded work and so if you haven't seen him live or caught the few UK TV shows...

Its not censorship, its capitalism. A privately owned venue pulled the show because it says that the content of JS's show didn't align with the values of it's business. Virtually all of these type of fusses are over decisions made by privately owned businesses, not by lawmakers. They are just...