This is proper 1984 shit.
Puffin taking the knife to all Roald Dahl’s work in their latest editions to change or remove anything which they might deem “offensive” or somehow out of keeping for today. How dare they?!
"The Telegraph has found hundreds of changes to Dahl’s stories.
Language related to weight, mental health, violence, gender and race has been cut and rewritten. Remember the Cloud-Men in James and the Giant Peach? They are now the Cloud-People. The Small Foxes in Fantastic Mr Fox are now female. In Matilda, a mention of Rudyard Kipling has been cut and Jane Austen added. It’s Roald Dahl, but different. "
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/02/17/roald-dahl-books-rewritten-offensive-matilda-witches-twits/
I wonder if my parents still have all my old copies of the books in the attic somewhere - they could be worth holding on to.
