Book bans have been a hot topic in the news lately, with British newspapers decrying the barbarity of American politicians banning everything from Maus to Jodi Picoult.
UK readers sympathise with Floridian librarians; nod at the bravery of teenagers wearing ‘I Read Banned Books’ t-shirts to their graduations; donate small amounts to charities distributing contraband literature.
Secretly, we comfort ourselves that this is happening far away; we tell ourselves that it would never be us, not in 2023; we lie to ourselves that censorship & book bans are the preserve of humid evangelical backwaters.
And yet book bans are happening, in the UK, in 2023.
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