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it is world book day when we are recording this episode. i hope you had some good costumes to hand. first of all, though, it is day two of what the daily telegraph is calling the lockdown files — all those whatsapp messages between matt hancock, the health secretary during the early stages of the covid pandemic, and borisjohnson and rishi sunak and all their advisers and their pollsters and dominic cummings and patrick vallance and chris whitty and basically everyone who had anything to do with covid. where do you think that the story has kind of got to? well, it carries bubbling a...

others and basically everyone who had anything to do with covid. the weird do you think that story has got to? weird do you think that story has not to? �* , ., ~' got to? it's not quite i think necessarily _ got to? it's not quite i think necessarily yet _ got to? it's not quite i think necessarily yet at _ got to? it's not quite i think necessarily yet at the - got to? it's not quite i think necessarily yet at the kind l got to? it's not quite i think| necessarily yet at the kind of obvious comparison of the telegraph. generating a lot of news. loads and loads of pick—up and di...

And of course we do say it in speech, "you must be mad to say that. " and we don't really mean anything to do with mental illness. no, but if you put it in a book it sort of fossilises it in a way, and if you say, "this mad woman came in," if you said, "she went mad," maybe that is not quite so bad, but if you say, there was a woman or a man who is mad or a child who is mad, and you think that is also being used in the playground against people, you mightjust hesitate to put it, so a lot of self—censorship goes on when we write books. you know, again, if you say somebody is ugly, which is on...

Except, then the publishers decided there is now going to be a compromise and there will be new versions with those words taken out but you can still buy the classic ones with some of the words still in. did they decide or was that the plan right from the start? i have no idea, don't ask me. i'm not that side of the business. i wonder what your hunch is on words like fat and ugly and mad? should they have a place in children's books in 2023? they are punchy words and they are instantly understood words but they are also words that some don't like. i'm not going to be a commissar on this myself...