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Tom Hanks says he would boycott woke versions of classic books
ACTOR Tom Hanks says he would boycott woke versions of classic books such as Roald Dahl tales.
Hanks, now a bestselling author, said he was “of the opinion that we’re all grown-ups here”.
His comments come after publisher Puffin announced it would remove or rewrite “offensive” language around issues such as weight and gender.
Asked if language should be changed in classics by children’s author Dahl and Agatha Christie, Forrest Gump star Hanks said: “We understand the time and the place and when these things were written.
“And it’s not very hard at all to say: that doesn’t quite fly right now, does it?
“Let’s have faith in our own sensibilities here, instead of having somebody decide what we may or may not be offended by.”
Hanks, 66, added on BBC Radio 4: “Let me decide what I am offended by and not offended by.
“I would be against reading any book from any era that says ‘abridged due to modern sensitivities’.”
PM Rishi Sunak has also previously spoken out against the woke rewrites.
He weighed in after Puffin Books altered passages deemed offensive – including removing the word fat when describing Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’s Augustus Gloop.
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Those of you who who sit up at night fretting about how American financial institutions are getting too damn woke, don’t worry: Your champion has arrived, and he’s gunning for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination. On Tuesday, investor Vivek Ramaswamy, who has been called the “The CEO of Anti-Woke, Inc.” by The New…
Woke Met Police put Cenotaph on secret list of ‘contentious statues’
WOKE police have put the Cenotaph on a secret list of “contentious statues”.
The Whitehall memorial to Britain’s war dead has been classified as problematic by the Metropolitan Police.
Woke police have put the Cenotaph on a secret list of ‘contentious statues’[/caption]
Sir Winston Churchill’s statue has also been included[/caption]
Nelson’s Column is also on the Met’s list[/caption]
And Sir Winston Churchill’s statue and Nelson’s Column are also included.
The Met drew up a list of contentious landmarks, including dozens of Westminster memorials in London.
Those to Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi and Earl Mountbatten, who was murdered by the IRA in 1979, are also on the secret Scotland Yard document.
It has been forced to publish the list under Freedom of Information laws.
Notes explaining their decisions claim naval hero Nelson “spent a large part of his career in the Caribbean and developed an affinity with the slave owner”.
And it claims World War Two victor Churchill was accused of “murdering over three million Indians” — a debunked statistic.
They also repeat disputed claims that Earl Mountbatten “oversaw the partition of several provinces which led to the deaths of nearly two million people and the displacement of nearly 20 million” in India.
Curiously, the reasons for including the Cenotaph have been left blank but it has been attacked by protesters in recent years.
Former Cabinet minister Simon Clark said: “There is a particularly bitter irony in thinking there is anything ‘contentious’ about the Cenotaph and our paying lasting respect to all those whose sacrifice means we live in freedom.”
The list’s existence has emerged in a report by the Policy Exchange think-tank which accuses police of all but abandoning Westminster to protesters and anarchist criminals.
Its report, Tarnished Jewel: The Decline Of The Streets Around Parliament, says violent crime has risen two and a half times faster near Parliament than in London as a whole.
It adds: “The rise in offences coincided with the relaxation of rules on protest.”
Kwasi Kwarteng says Sturgeon’s ‘woke agenda blew up in her face’ as he speaks in 1st live TV interview since his ousting
EX-Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng has spoken for the first time in a TV interview since his ousting – blasting Nicola Sturgeon’s “woke” agenda that “blew up in her face”.
The MP for Spelthorne triggered market meltdown when his September Mini Budget sent the pound to its lowest-ever level against the dollar.
The MP for Spelthorne blasted Nicola Sturgeon’s ‘woke’ agenda that ‘blew up in her face’[/caption]
His plans nearly collapsed UK pension funds – holding £1TRILLION of Brit retiree savings – before the Bank of England stepped in at the eleventh hour.
But speaking to TalkTV last night, he said: “When you’re getting door stepped, as I was by media, I just fled.
“I knew what would happen… every day there were people, but after about four or five days, the story moved on.
“So when I came back to my house, there was nobody there, about six days later.”
Show host Richard Tice chimed in, asking whether Mr Kwarteng, sacked October 14, “blew” the Budget “pretty badly”.
But Mr Kwarteng – who lasted just 38 days in the job – insisted it was a “turbulent time”.
He added: “We were trying to do a serious thing.
“We tried to reduce the tax burden on this country and we were caught in a real firestorm and I think it’s a shame what happened.”
The ex-Chancellor went on to blast Scotland’s outgoing First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.
He said the SNP leader – who resigned on Wednesday – “got herself into lots of knots” over her gender laws which he believes was her undoing.
He blasted: “Essentially her woke agenda ended up blowing up in her face.
“It was really the straw that broke the camel’s back – her ratings plunged.”
Back on the economy, Mr Kwarteng – an MP since 2010 – said he does “regret” the speed at which he made sweeping changes to UK tax demands.
But he was adamant how “the general direction” in terms of lowering tax “was right”.
Mr Kwarteng announced various tax cuts for the wealthy in his September 23 “mini-budget”.
The government U-turned on the plans when markets went into meltdown.
He lost his job as he was flew back from Washington D.C. – then Prime Minister Liz Truss resigned seven days later.
Discussing tax rises, he said: “I’ve always been very clear about the fact that I don’t think you get to prosperity by high taxes.
“I don’t think that’s the route to do it.”
Mr Kwarteng went on to say his successor Jeremy Hunt did a “good job” in stabilising the markets in what he says is a “very orthodox Treasury ideology”.
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