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The fight over woke culture and censorship has gone digital. A British publisher is forcing e-book readers to update to altered versions of children's classics.

Instead of bowdlerising books on moral grounds, we should help children to navigate history in a constructive manner

No plans to remove the original versions.

The alterations to the stories were made by the late author’s publisher Puffin after sensitive readers flagged deemed descriptions of characters offensive to modern readers.

Once upon a time... the handsome prince rescued the beautiful princess and they lived happily ever after. But in 2023, he could be an average-looking bisexual commoner.

Former British prime minister Boris Johnson is the latest high-profile individual disparaging the rewriting of some of Roald ...

Of political times past, so too was the speech at a global power conference by his former boss, borisjohnson, part of which was shown live on the news channel on thursday. nothing and no—one will stop me reciting the song. of the oompa—loompas about augustus gloop, which you all remember. # augustus gloop. # the great big greedy nincompoop. that made me weep with laughter as a child. and frankly, id be very surprised if anybody at cis in vauxhall behaved towards their secretaries as bond beh...

"Owners of Roald Dahl ebooks are having their libraries automatically updated with the new censored versions containing hundreds of changes to language related to weight, mental health, violence, gender and race," reports the British newspaper the Times. Readers who bought electronic versions of the...

The popular 007 books will be re-released with some parts taken out to accommodate modern sensitivities.

The famed author of teen horror series Goosebumps has reviewed over a dozen of his books to remove any references to mental health, weight or obesity, it has been revealed.