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A TED Talk Gloats Over Purging ‘The Boy in the Striped Pajamas,’ and Other ‘Bad’ Books, From a School at Nottingham

Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle Archives via Wikimedia Commons
John Steinbeck at Helsinki in 1963. Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle Archives via Wikimedia Commons
JULIE BURCHILL
JULIE BURCHILL

At a TED Talk at the English city of Nottingham recently, a hijab’d young woman gloated beatifically over the removal of “bad” books from the syllabus of the school with which she is affiliated, saying:

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JULIE BURCHILL
JULIE BURCHILL

Ms. Burchill has been writing from Britain for close to 50 years. Her latest book, 'Welcome to the Woke Trials,' was brought out in 2021 by Academica Press.

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