Loved the famous five… especially Georgie, who was a Tomboy…. and if someone should even dare to insinuate that she was a, lesbian/cross dresser/confused….. I shall whip lit my sling shot and aim it at you….
Anyone who objects to Enid Blyton's books can refrain from reading them. That's what I do with the Guardian. I used to buy it but then I discovered Andrex.
@passius1 You're better off with Andrex. It costs less, is much more comfortable, will last longer, and it's safe to flush without blocking the sewage pipes. But, sometimes people need to learn the hard way.
@@jonbaxter2254 George Floyd wasn't a nice bloke, and they just made a statue of him. Lets not pretend social activists actually have any standards or principles.
Back in the day, I attended a girls' school, which was pretty standard in those days. We were only given the 'expurgated' versions of the classics, in other words all sexual references had been removed. We had Shakespeare plays with lines missing, and a Chaucer text from which a whole page had been removed. This was because at that time exposing girls (the nation's future wives and mothers) to bad language or any knowledge of sex was a taboo. I only mention this because nowadays this is considered laughable. We seem to be going through another such phase where no one must be allowed to make their own minds up about what they read, and must let 'wiser heads' decide for them. Enid Blyton wasn't racist, sexist or whatever, neither was Shakespeare or Chaucer, they simply wrote from their own perspectives. And it's true that when you ban a book, or take bits out, youngsters will always rush to find out what's missing.
Too right. Reenforces my feeling that we don't really 'progress', we just change. We leave behind old taboos but quickly find new ones. I suppose as she aged and attitudes changed Blyton might have been considered racist in her lifetime, but during the peak of her writing, I think her views pretty much chimed with those of most Britons. I've said it elsewhere, but I find it very significant that in the late 40s/early 50s, The Times was happy to print an advert for a fur coat described as "n****r brown". Come to think of it I'd best find that page again and preserve it lest some woke censor decides it ought to be erased for the sake of the paper's image. Your using the word 'expurgated' reminds me of reading a book in which a boy bought a copy of The Arabian Nights, "unexpurgated edition." And the book said, "What this seemed to mean was that the book was full of little dirty bits." Later he was given another copy, "...with all the dirty bits taken out." When I was little I thought that meant little grubby marks on the pages! More innocent times.
@passius1 Yes everything you've said is correct. I read about criticism of her in the encyclopaedia when I was a huge fan of hers at school. All I was pointing out was that the criticism of her views came along much later in her life, and that most of her views would have been quite acceptable at the time she published her books. As a blyton fan and history buff none of this is new to me. I'm not too sure what the news is today re English heritage. Sounds like they're just saying what's been common knowledge... or at least readily available knowledge for a long while. In the 50s the BBC reckoned her a "persistent amateur" and didn't consider adapting her work. The concern expressed seemed to be about English Heritage discouraging parents from giving her books to their children. They kind of gave you the quote out of context I thought, but it's just facts about her in any case it's nothing new as you say.
@passius1 Yep mate I hear everything you're saying. I wasn't wondering why you were upset but why they were upset. Don't get me wrong now I think... as a huge fan of hers haha, that people do lay into her too much for her views these days, and definitely meddle far too much with the text of her books. I don't actually mind that by itself, if they really think children shouldn't be exposed to these words/ideas, what I mind is that it's very hard to get hold of the original text, which I want to read exactly because it accurately reflects its time period. If I were sighted I could search out old editions on ebay but as I'm not I've had to hunt some pretty obscure places to get E copies I can read on the computer. So I'd just like them to make original editions available say on kindle, which they could do at minimal cost, and put a thing on it like... "These editions are for adult readers for historic reference and are not recommended for children." Personally I don't see a need for most of the edits they're doing now anyway but that's something we could have a really long argument about. I'm also totally anti PC/woke and cancel culture, but I agree with you that really this thing about English Heritage is a bit of a storm in a... well a thimble to be honest.
I'm a centrist hovering left normally and I LOVED her books as a child. It is 100% stupid to judge someone who has been dead for over 50 years by 2021 standards.
@@nickbrown2764 To the two people who replied... I never said "all Leftists" I said this nonsense is being pushed by Leftists. Which is 100% true, it isn't Conservatives or Libertarians who are insisting on holding long since dead people by modern standards. It's The Left doing that
Oh my goodness, I loved the secret seven and the famous five, I couldn’t wait to get the next book when I was a child. Truly astonishing that anyone could find her famous five or secret seven offensive. Nothing she ever wrote was ever offensive, utter nonsense.
I've noticed the newer editions have been 'sanitised' I just found two older books in a charity shop, so i bought them, even though they are for younger children. I still love her books
Faraway tree was my all-time favourite book or should I say books. Part of my childhood and still love them as a adult ❤ You don't like her books agreed. Don't read them. But don't tell others Not to read them
'A lot of what she wrote was offensive'. Rubbish! For something to be offensive someone would have to take offence, and I doubt if anyone reading those books years ago would have been offended. All this offence nonsense is based on the way these snowflakes think now. Times then were different and she, and her readers, were of their time. That is a fact which cannot be changed - complaining about it now is pointless. If people don't want to read the books today, they don't have to.
Completely agree. It wasn't that many years ago that the west was shaming other countries for banning the Satanic Verses. Why can't these idiots just accept that not everything they hear or read will agree with their worldview.
@@garrymcgregor6821 So what if Dan said it, does that mean that everyone who watched him say it must agree with him, or that everyone making a comment must conform to his being 'OK'?... The original comment stands. 'Doctoring books to the current standard is a losers game'.
@passius1 'It was done by CAPITALISM,.. CAPITALISM censored them' ...In other words... we do not need controlling commie socialist freaks cancelling people. Your own comment just proved the point.... '60yrs ago a publisher (who existed in a capitalist system) refused to publish her book'. Hence we do not need further censorship by communists.
Exactly same as me. I am 73 and was brought up to respect all others no matter their race or colour. We queued up at school library to get on the roster to get Enid Blyton books to borrow. She got me into reading which I enjoy doing to this day. By the way we had an uncle in our family, I don’t know what country he came from but was very dark skinned and affectionately know as Uncle D-ki- nobody including him were bothered by that. My granny had a big brown dog called N--er. Because at that time there was a shade of brown called that. This was in Ireland 1950
Why isn’t a representative from English Heritage in the studio defending its pronouncement or do these gods refuse to have contact with mere English mortals ?
I read, Enchanted Forest and The Magic Faraway Tree to my children. I can’t remember anything racist in the books. My eldest is keeping the book to read to her children.
How on earth can any sane individual begin to think these books are racist. It's lunacy. . Hope all this causes them to top the best sellers list. Oh please let it happen.
Love GB News and Dan's Show but the 22.00 slot is so abysmal it could sink the Channel. Just to reiterate I want GB News to become our National Broadcaster.
I grew up on Enid Blyton books, loved them! I still have my original 'Castle of adventure' and indeed, read it again a few months ago, still loved it! I am not a racist or any of the other things her books were supposed to 'turn' me too.
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Blyton's books are racist? They have always been massive best sellers in India; countless families were brought up on them and still love them today. Racism is in the eye of the beholder, you can see racism in anything if you are that obsessive and have tunnel vision. I wouldn't be capable of writing this now had I not discovered Blyton's books: what a treasure she was and remains to just about everyone apart from a few wokes and pompous snobs who think they know better than everyone else.
Oh god here we go again who cares these people are simpletons I find malcom x offensive at times but I wouldn't cancel him becuase even know I mostly disagreed with him he says some things that hold much truth even today let's stop cancelling people full stop left or right
Why don’t the Wokists put a stop to all the awful violent hateful computer games... In my opinion they are far more dangerous to young minds! 🤷🏼♀️ Too easy to pick on dead writers?
My son loved video games when he was little and still does now he's older. A lot of his friends (and yes real friends who lived near by) were also playing them, they would be able to chat with each other while they played. Meanwhile a few children who were at his school were out and about getting into..drugs.. I remember moaning at him, 'go out and play' then as time went by and I saw what happened to some of the children who he would have been out playing with I was really glad he stayed in upstairs and played with like minded friends on computer games. Don't knock them. 'The woke' ARE going after gamers and game designers, they call them racists and sexists and basically all the 'ists'. You live in a small world if you are not aware of this, it was one of the first things they attacked because it was seen as a primarily white male activity, they just completely dismissed the fact that both girls and kids of other races also designed and played them. The resulting group who attempt to stand up to them are called 'gamer gate'.
I read a couple of her books as a child, and to be honest, I cannot remember anything wrong with them. Why do we have to analyse everything from the past! People need to get over themselves.
If English Heritage wanted a conversation regarding these books then they should say so. They did not, that was never their intention, they wanted to virtue signal and they are totally wrong to do so.
Malory Towers helped get me through my teenage years. Nothing finer than hearing about Daryl Rivers and her tennis tournaments and disgruntlement with teachers!
As a child, the author Enid Blyton was a great favourite of mine, I loved all her wonderful books and have read many of them, from Noddy to The Famous Five and Secret Seven. Ms Blyton introduced me to the love of book reading. Having said that, I certainly did not grow up to be racist, sexist or any other ist due to reading her books. When one reads and enjoys a book, it isn’t because one feels the author is above reproach. I personally do not choose to read books by an author who is a paragon of society, I choose a book simply because the story appeals to me. If one looks back in history, people had very a different viewpoint back then when it comes to racism and words used to describe other people, nations or beliefs. Words we would consider abhorrent and cringeworthy by today’s standards. One cannot erase history, one can only learn from it. The way things are going we will soon be back within the Oliver Cromwell school of thought, or even worse, back to the act of burning books in the streets because some do not agree with what is written in them. Great pyres of historical novels, like Enid Blyton’s story books, being needlessly destroyed just because someone is offended by the history of the written words in them.
Yes that will happen. So it can be repeated. We have the rise of communism riddled throughout BLM, Liberalism and socialism. All otherwise ‘mockingly’ referred to as woke… they’re dangerous and evil
The way the upper middle classes viewed black people was similar to their views of the indigenous working class. Primitive, instinctive and not fully responsible for their actions. Unfortunately their views of the working class have not changed.
Interesting to see the problem some of these woke individuals have substantiating their position when interviewed from a more neutral position than they are "normally" used to. The lady was quite obviously in an uncomfortable position that she was not used to dealing with.
What the hell is wrong with people have they all been to see a psychiatrist because they need to. They have all gone mad we need to get rid of all these people or the next generation will be walking around like robots
Isn’t there a danger in erasing what we find uncomfortable we are in danger of opening the door to those things happening again in the future…I’ve often read old books with a sense of horror at what it would have been like to live through those times and giving me a sense of gratitude to live in more enlightened times. The twists of fate and politics can be very different from what we anticipate and personally I think it’s important to have access to how things actually were so we don’t have distorted rose tinted spectacles because the grim part was removed.
So many of the classics show women in ways that are no longer acceptable, it doesn't stop them from being great books and were often written by women, so will the women authors be left alone, but male authors writings wiped from history, I wonder how they will work that one. Leave our books alone. Enid Blyton was a great writer, she may not have liked children but her imagination has appealed to generations of them, she knew what they liked to read and many children were and are still being drawn into the reading world through her books.
I'm sure none of these wokists has ever committing a sin in their lives, they must be pure, sweet and innocent little angels. Judge not lest ye be judged.
Parent: What do you think about the way they talk about travelling communities? 5 Year old child: What's a travelling community? Parent: *googles Big Fat Gypsy Weddings*
Interesting, as a kid I never thought her writing was any great shakes and it was obvious even to me at that age she was a snob but the plots and storytelling were ok and the action moved along at a brisk pace. The books I really loved as a kid were the Jennings and Derbyshire series by the late and great Anthony Buckeridge. Those were, and still are, great books for children.
@@marycrawford1594 No problem. I really, really loved those books. They were the first books where I became aware of characterization, all the characters were well-drawn and seemed three-dimensional to me, it wasn't just the plot or action that kept me reading. They were also very funny, very British too. Now I'm a Texan. Cheers from Texas😁
I learned to read with Blytons Famous Five and Secret Seven books and they did'nt make me a rabid racist (quite the opposite in fact).
I loved famous five
Me too
Loved the famous five… especially Georgie, who was a Tomboy…. and if someone should even dare to insinuate that she was a, lesbian/cross dresser/confused….. I shall whip lit my sling shot and aim it at you….
True, me too
@@nanarianne 😂 don’t tempt them !
Anyone who objects to Enid Blyton's books can refrain from reading them. That's what I do with the Guardian. I used to buy it but then I discovered Andrex.
Robert Seavor, :-) nice one.
@passius1 You're better off with Andrex. It costs less, is much more comfortable, will last longer, and it's safe to flush without blocking the sewage pipes. But, sometimes people need to learn the hard way.
@passius1 I'm sure her family will appreciate you making a financial contribution 😊
@passius1 I doubt you can read…your more like Mein Kampf. Or you use Andrew to wipe your mouth….😂😂😂
@passius1 Nice for those who can afford it.
English heritage should change its name immediately to woke heritage...
Agreed, though they should also drop the word Heritage, and just call themselves WOKE !
I’m going order some Enid Blyton books.
About time somebody did.
Already got them and will re-read them all as they are fantastic and no w0ke loving wimp will ever stop me.
About your reading level buddy
You should teach them to any children in your family. Education is the best defence against indocrination of these facists.
@@seanjonesy180 what a silly thing to say.
The lunatics have taken over the asylum.
Can someone remind me who it was in the 1930's who burnt books they didn't like?
Socialists... Same as now
@@JPnielsen It’s ALWAYS the socialists 🤬
Exactly what I was thinking Mark…this is a slippery slope we cannot come back from
Who’s burning books? Nobody, you are hysterical
@@honved1
What will happen to all the copies that are removed from shelves?
This is absolutely ridiculous. Enid Blyton was a wonderful children's author.
Far better than JK.
@@maccagrabme ditto
@@Cw90118 You need to leave your rabbit alone, its not nice
seriously, "Enid Blyton" hated children and that is not an overstatement, so she cannot be that bad😉
This is disgraceful, I’m her a relative of hers and this just hurts.
I don’t care if she was a nice person or not. That has nothing to do with her work. Picasso wasn’t a great bloke, but I still like his art.
Also, her work inspired many kids for generations.
@@jonbaxter2254 George Floyd wasn't a nice bloke, and they just made a statue of him. Lets not pretend social activists actually have any standards or principles.
Muhammed Ali held racist views but I'm still a fan of him as a boxer👊
Exactly Andrew Neil isn't a nice bloke but once he finishes the needless monologue bits he does beforehand - the interviews are usually pretty decent.
Back in the day, I attended a girls' school, which was pretty standard in those days. We were only given the 'expurgated' versions of the classics, in other words all sexual references had been removed. We had Shakespeare plays with lines missing, and a Chaucer text from which a whole page had been removed. This was because at that time exposing girls (the nation's future wives and mothers) to bad language or any knowledge of sex was a taboo. I only mention this because nowadays this is considered laughable. We seem to be going through another such phase where no one must be allowed to make their own minds up about what they read, and must let 'wiser heads' decide for them.
Enid Blyton wasn't racist, sexist or whatever, neither was Shakespeare or Chaucer, they simply wrote from their own perspectives. And it's true that when you ban a book, or take bits out, youngsters will always rush to find out what's missing.
Great comment.
Too right. Reenforces my feeling that we don't really 'progress', we just change. We leave behind old taboos but quickly find new ones. I suppose as she aged and attitudes changed Blyton might have been considered racist in her lifetime, but during the peak of her writing, I think her views pretty much chimed with those of most Britons. I've said it elsewhere, but I find it very significant that in the late 40s/early 50s, The Times was happy to print an advert for a fur coat described as "n****r brown". Come to think of it I'd best find that page again and preserve it lest some woke censor decides it ought to be erased for the sake of the paper's image. Your using the word 'expurgated' reminds me of reading a book in which a boy bought a copy of The Arabian Nights, "unexpurgated edition." And the book said, "What this seemed to mean was that the book was full of little dirty bits." Later he was given another copy, "...with all the dirty bits taken out." When I was little I thought that meant little grubby marks on the pages! More innocent times.
@passius1 Yes everything you've said is correct. I read about criticism of her in the encyclopaedia when I was a huge fan of hers at school. All I was pointing out was that the criticism of her views came along much later in her life, and that most of her views would have been quite acceptable at the time she published her books. As a blyton fan and history buff none of this is new to me. I'm not too sure what the news is today re English heritage. Sounds like they're just saying what's been common knowledge... or at least readily available knowledge for a long while. In the 50s the BBC reckoned her a "persistent amateur" and didn't consider adapting her work. The concern expressed seemed to be about English Heritage discouraging parents from giving her books to their children. They kind of gave you the quote out of context I thought, but it's just facts about her in any case it's nothing new as you say.
@passius1 Yep mate I hear everything you're saying. I wasn't wondering why you were upset but why they were upset. Don't get me wrong now I think... as a huge fan of hers haha, that people do lay into her too much for her views these days, and definitely meddle far too much with the text of her books. I don't actually mind that by itself, if they really think children shouldn't be exposed to these words/ideas, what I mind is that it's very hard to get hold of the original text, which I want to read exactly because it accurately reflects its time period. If I were sighted I could search out old editions on ebay but as I'm not I've had to hunt some pretty obscure places to get E copies I can read on the computer. So I'd just like them to make original editions available say on kindle, which they could do at minimal cost, and put a thing on it like... "These editions are for adult readers for historic reference and are not recommended for children." Personally I don't see a need for most of the edits they're doing now anyway but that's something we could have a really long argument about. I'm also totally anti PC/woke and cancel culture, but I agree with you that really this thing about English Heritage is a bit of a storm in a... well a thimble to be honest.
passius1 then your comment is racist, since you used a euphemism for it yourself. Intent and context make something bad.
Leftists - "This person born in the 1800s didn't live by today's standards"
Sane people - "Well duh!" 🤣🤣
I'm left over center .... and I loved Enid Blyton as a child ... I am a voracious reader now. Stop pigeon holing people.
I'm a centrist hovering left normally and I LOVED her books as a child.
It is 100% stupid to judge someone who has been dead for over 50 years by 2021 standards.
@@nickbrown2764 To the two people who replied... I never said "all Leftists" I said this nonsense is being pushed by Leftists. Which is 100% true, it isn't Conservatives or Libertarians who are insisting on holding long since dead people by modern standards. It's The Left doing that
I'm supporting Brentford next season.
You wanna know why?
They're not taking the knee.
How refreshing
Right, I'm off to buy a whole bunch of Enid Blyton books to read to my young boy 😀👌
I recommend "Five Go To Smugglers Top", clearly a winner for boys. You'll love the name of the sixth person in the story.
@@scottlittlewood4527 great, thanks. I will check it out 👍
Thats the spirit.
Screenshot your receipt so no one can accuse you of virtue signalling to the antiwoke.. 👍🇬🇧
I was just thinking I better buy them to read to my grandkids, and I haven’t got any grandkids yet!
Let's hope that her books get back on the best seller's list
Get them before they do an E.T on them and then wrap each page in cotton wool.
They will 👌🙏
I bought them for my grandchildren .. age 8 & 9 they understand the time they were written in
I loved these books as a kid
Funny how nobody calls out black celebrities like AJ when they make blatent anti white statements on TV
Oh my goodness, I loved the secret seven and the famous five, I couldn’t wait to get the next book when I was a child. Truly astonishing that anyone could find her famous five or secret seven offensive. Nothing she ever wrote was ever offensive, utter nonsense.
Buy the older editions. The woke brigade has already 'got' to the newer editions.
I've noticed the newer editions have been 'sanitised' I just found two older books in a charity shop, so i bought them, even though they are for younger children. I still love her books
Please stop imposing today's culture on the past. Highlight the differences, and state the errors by all means but please don't try to delete/cancel.
How about selling her books and letting people decide whether they want to buy them?
That's too much common sense for the wokists.
Gosh, we cannot possibly do that, we must let others decide every aspect of EVERYTHING we do, talk about “Back in the USSR” 😡
Thats not totalitarian!
I grew up reading Noddy and the Famous 5. It never gave me racist thoughts
She literally had a book about gollywogs called "n*gger", "golly" and "woggie"
The greatest children's writer of all time. Full stop. And the screaming droolers will not take away my childhood.
Nor mine, I had a WONDERUL time at Malory Towers 😊
No, old age has dome that for you....
@mortalwombat are you a far left extremist anti Semitic drooler?
I still have Malory towers, St Clares, and The Secret Seven books. I go in charity shops to find older editions
I loved her books, as a child. The Famous Five, The Secret Seven, The Magic Faraway Tree...
Faraway tree was my all-time favourite book or should I say books. Part of my childhood and still love them as a adult ❤
You don't like her books agreed. Don't read them. But don't tell others Not to read them
What happens if someone who wrote a book didn’t like old people two hundred years ago. CANCEL THEIR BOOKS ENGLISH HERITAGE!!
So what next English heritage? You Gona ban Henry the Eighth for hating women or something?
Well, that’s The Venerable Bede in the shit then.
Soon we will be cancelled just for being over a certain age.
Some of us already are.
Logan's Run.
we already are.
You joke...
'A lot of what she wrote was offensive'. Rubbish! For something to be offensive someone would have to take offence, and I doubt if anyone reading those books years ago would have been offended. All this offence nonsense is based on the way these snowflakes think now. Times then were different and she, and her readers, were of their time. That is a fact which cannot be changed - complaining about it now is pointless. If people don't want to read the books today, they don't have to.
Completely agree.
It wasn't that many years ago that the west was shaming other countries for banning the Satanic Verses.
Why can't these idiots just accept that not everything they hear or read will agree with their worldview.
Doctoring books to the current standard is a losers game.
It’s communism.
Did you listen to the beginning where Dan says this had already been done by "capitalism" to Blyton. Something he seemed OK with....
@@garrymcgregor6821 So what if Dan said it, does that mean that everyone who watched him say it must agree with him, or that everyone making a comment must conform to his being 'OK'?... The original comment stands. 'Doctoring books to the current standard is a losers game'.
@passius1
'It was done by CAPITALISM,.. CAPITALISM censored them' ...In other words... we do not need controlling commie socialist freaks cancelling people. Your own comment just proved the point.... '60yrs ago a publisher (who existed in a capitalist system) refused to publish her book'. Hence we do not need further censorship by communists.
@@elwoodbluesmorris2120 And yet when capitalism do it to their current standards it seemed OK with everyone....
Right that's me ordering Enid Blyton books!
Loved The Famous Five, Noddy and Mallory Towers was I was young. Can’t remember anything racist about them but then I didn’t know about racism.
Exactly same as me. I am 73 and was brought up to respect all others no matter their race or colour. We queued up at school library to get on the roster to get Enid Blyton books to borrow. She got me into reading which I enjoy doing to this day. By the way we had an uncle in our family, I don’t know what country he came from but was very dark skinned and affectionately know as Uncle D-ki- nobody including him were bothered by that. My granny had a big brown dog called N--er. Because at that time there was a shade of brown called that. This was in Ireland 1950
This was basically how I learned to be a book reader. Sad.
Why isn’t a representative from English Heritage in the studio defending its pronouncement or do these gods refuse to have contact with mere English mortals ?
Because they don't actually have a rational argument for their stance and don't want to be shown up!
George " transgender" give me strength, she was what was called a TOMBOY, nothing to do with gender my dear
I read, Enchanted Forest and The Magic Faraway Tree to my children. I can’t remember anything racist in the books. My eldest is keeping the book to read to her children.
Enchanted wood.😉
The Magic Faraway Tree series was my favourite series. They gave me a life long love for reading.
They were and still are my favorite series.
Same
Mine too! And also the Famous Five, Secret Seven and plenty more!
Do you remember dame washalot, the slippery slip and Moonface, I am going to dig out my old copy.
@@jayneroberts919 I remember them all. And saucepan man!
I’ve still got my 3 old books. Can’t bear to get rid of them. 🙂
I'd never thought of introducing my Grandkids to Enid Blyton, i will now though...
You really should!
"We remove some of the words that might be very, very distressing to people reading it in a class room"
Pathetic.
George was a good old fashioned tomboy. They're not all transgender lesbians , they just aren't stereotypical feminine.
It's not 'cancel culture' it's fascism... woke fascism!
We really got to the point of it all near the end when it was stated by all accounts she wasn't a very nice woman. How pathetic are these people?
I will buy some of Enid Blyton's books tomorrow.
Rebecca Reid is jealous. She wants people to buy her books instead.
No thank you
MODERN book burning - a disgrace. The total loss of historical context. Very good coverage of the topic. Thank you
Enid Blyton’s stories developed my imagination as a child. I adored her books. Let’s hope we are not judged on our values in a hundred years time.
How on earth can any sane individual begin to think these books are racist. It's lunacy. . Hope all this causes them to top the best sellers list. Oh please let it happen.
Love GB News and Dan's Show but the 22.00 slot is so abysmal it could sink the Channel. Just to reiterate I want GB News to become our National Broadcaster.
I loved Enid Blytons books!
It was another era, grow up some people !
Enough! Enid Blyton lived in age when there was no multi racialism or multi culturalism in England. It was 99% white English in her day as a writer.
I grew up on Enid Blyton books, loved them! I still have my original 'Castle of adventure' and indeed, read it again a few months ago, still loved it! I am not a racist or any of the other things her books were supposed to 'turn' me too.
Well, if you're offended by the notion of even addressing her problematic views, it's possible they did have an effect.
Well, if her views are problematic to you, I suggest you are the one that should be looking inwards
@@jennyhemming8235 I think that response can only really come from a place of ignorance, Jenny.
@@tobystarbuck3546 fed up with you now
I still have books from my childhood, and yes i read them for "light reading"
Why hasn’t Mien Kampf been cancelled? Far worse than Enid Blyton and Dr Seuss.
"Mien Kampf"? A Chinese noodle recipe cookbook, perhaps?
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The author of my childhood. My son is 9 and we’ve read EB since he was two. Legend.
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I loved the stories of wiggy, waggy and Wally growing up. I even brought all the books for my children they loved them.
OMG I introduced my granddaughter to Enid and she loved the books.
I Have big ears and im glad i was represented in her books lol
Ha ha
Lol 🤣
Blyton's books are racist? They have always been massive best sellers in India; countless families were brought up on them and still love them today. Racism is in the eye of the beholder, you can see racism in anything if you are that obsessive and have tunnel vision. I wouldn't be capable of writing this now had I not discovered Blyton's books: what a treasure she was and remains to just about everyone apart from a few wokes and pompous snobs who think they know better than everyone else.
who gives a damn what cancel culture thinks. i grew up reading her book, so did my children and now the grandchildren. Her books are gems to treasure.
im still pissed off that little britain has been banned ....
I still have many of my Enid Blyton books bought for me in the late 60's early 70's, so glad I kept them
Oh god here we go again who cares these people are simpletons I find malcom x offensive at times but I wouldn't cancel him becuase even know I mostly disagreed with him he says some things that hold much truth even today let's stop cancelling people full stop left or right
Username says it all.... 🙄
@@garrymcgregor6821 not really pal
@@oswaldmosley4315 So your parents had a dark sense of humour? Or you choose to name yourself after a British white supremacist and fascist?
@@garrymcgregor6821 white supremacist 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@garrymcgregor6821 stfu
The sheer arrogance is palpable , I can’t wait for her thoughts on a certain other Book.
How about 'The PoC Of The Narcissus' by Joseph Conrad? Possibly 'problematic', as they like to say.
I grew up with Enid Blyton stories, they were amazing, famous five, secret seven
Me: "Timmy was the biggest racist of them all." /s
Wokist: "Typical white male!"
Was Timmy the dog?
LOL
Zad Xmas yes
This is madness.
Why don’t the Wokists put a stop to all the awful violent hateful computer games... In my opinion they are far more dangerous to young minds! 🤷🏼♀️ Too easy to pick on dead writers?
My son loved video games when he was little and still does now he's older. A lot of his friends (and yes real friends who lived near by) were also playing them, they would be able to chat with each other while they played. Meanwhile a few children who were at his school were out and about getting into..drugs.. I remember moaning at him, 'go out and play' then as time went by and I saw what happened to some of the children who he would have been out playing with I was really glad he stayed in upstairs and played with like minded friends on computer games. Don't knock them. 'The woke' ARE going after gamers and game designers, they call them racists and sexists and basically all the 'ists'. You live in a small world if you are not aware of this, it was one of the first things they attacked because it was seen as a primarily white male activity, they just completely dismissed the fact that both girls and kids of other races also designed and played them. The resulting group who attempt to stand up to them are called 'gamer gate'.
I read a couple of her books as a child, and to be honest, I cannot remember anything wrong with them. Why do we have to analyse everything from the past! People need to get over themselves.
If we only knew what breed Timmy the dog was, then she could be accused of breed-ism as
If English Heritage wanted a conversation regarding these books then they should say so. They did not, that was never their intention, they wanted to virtue signal and they are totally wrong to do so.
Malory Towers helped get me through my teenage years. Nothing finer than hearing about Daryl Rivers and her tennis tournaments and disgruntlement with teachers!
Reading about the pranks they played and the midnight feasts was also fun. Some of my books are now over 30 years old and i treasure them
As a child, the author Enid Blyton was a great favourite of mine, I loved all her wonderful books and have read many of them, from Noddy to The Famous Five and Secret Seven. Ms Blyton introduced me to the love of book reading. Having said that, I certainly did not grow up to be racist, sexist or any other ist due to reading her books. When one reads and enjoys a book, it isn’t because one feels the author is above reproach. I personally do not choose to read books by an author who is a paragon of society, I choose a book simply because the story appeals to me. If one looks back in history, people had very a different viewpoint back then when it comes to racism and words used to describe other people, nations or beliefs. Words we would consider abhorrent and cringeworthy by today’s standards. One cannot erase history, one can only learn from it. The way things are going we will soon be back within the Oliver Cromwell school of thought, or even worse, back to the act of burning books in the streets because some do not agree with what is written in them. Great pyres of historical novels, like Enid Blyton’s story books, being needlessly destroyed just because someone is offended by the history of the written words in them.
I read those books when I was young
Trees are now offended because they're not magic
“We won’t get rid of books like Huckleberry Finn . . . “
That's exactly what you'll do if we allow you to get away with it.
So does this mean Adolf Hitler will never be mentioned in history lessons at school? For goodness sake!!!
Yes that will happen. So it can be repeated. We have the rise of communism riddled throughout BLM, Liberalism and socialism. All otherwise ‘mockingly’ referred to as woke… they’re dangerous and evil
Seriously Dan?
This is getting bang out of order.Changing times.The wokes will be burning books
When you were seven years old her books brought excitement and stimulated ones imagination.
I bought copies for my kids back in the early 2000's, they were "abridged" then and I found it odd then.
Quality programme. Keep it up GB News.
Leave any literary works alone; the same with music, sculpture and art. I never had any issues reading the famous five.
The way the upper middle classes viewed black people was similar to their views of the indigenous working class. Primitive, instinctive and not fully responsible for their actions. Unfortunately their views of the working class have not changed.
You wont find this story discussed on Sky, BBC, Channel 4 or ITV News
Interesting to see the problem some of these woke individuals have substantiating their position when interviewed from a more neutral position than they are "normally" used to. The lady was quite obviously in an uncomfortable position that she was not used to dealing with.
Cancelling history is such a horrific act of anti intellectualism.
That narcissistic psychopath at the end tho..
Very frightening. Who appointed her and to be the arbiter of who should be cancelled?
I’m black and I grew up on Enid Blyton.
“The Three Golliwogs” was one of my favourite books from her.
All this stuff is benefitting no one . Just dividing us all
You cannot put today’s standards on yesterday’s, it just doesn’t work ! Sick of woke !
Why are the few making up the rules for the majority.
I am not white and I love Enid
Blyton books
This wokery or wokism is ridiculous
Finding insults and affronts in every breath
This is extremism
She was from a different era this wasn't offensive or crass back then cancelling makes no sense.
We love Enid Blyton and now have a news channel who support an opposing view to the left wing trendies, thank you Dan Wootton.
Black beauty next because the horse was black! Fml
“I don’t care that she’s a horrible person”. You cared enough for it to be the second thing you bought up and talked about love.
What the hell is wrong with people have they all been to see a psychiatrist because they need to. They have all gone mad we need to get rid of all these people or the next generation will be walking around like robots
Isn’t there a danger in erasing what we find uncomfortable we are in danger of opening the door to those things happening again in the future…I’ve often read old books with a sense of horror at what it would have been like to live through those times and giving me a sense of gratitude to live in more enlightened times. The twists of fate and politics can be very different from what we anticipate and personally I think it’s important to have access to how things actually were so we don’t have distorted rose tinted spectacles because the grim part was removed.
So many of the classics show women in ways that are no longer acceptable, it doesn't stop them from being great books and were often written by women, so will the women authors be left alone, but male authors writings wiped from history, I wonder how they will work that one. Leave our books alone. Enid Blyton was a great writer, she may not have liked children but her imagination has appealed to generations of them, she knew what they liked to read and many children were and are still being drawn into the reading world through her books.
Absolutely crazy.
I'm sure none of these wokists has ever committing a sin in their lives, they must be pure, sweet and innocent little angels.
Judge not lest ye be judged.
Loved her books
English Heritage have lost my support.
cancel English Heritage. How on earth can we stop this madness?
Parent: What do you think about the way they talk about travelling communities?
5 Year old child: What's a travelling community?
Parent: *googles Big Fat Gypsy Weddings*
Put up a statue of her on the 4th plinth in Trafalgar Square!!
Interesting, as a kid I never thought her writing was any great shakes and it was obvious even to me at that age she was a snob but the plots and storytelling were ok and the action moved along at a brisk pace.
The books I really loved as a kid were the Jennings and Derbyshire series by the late and great Anthony Buckeridge. Those were, and still are, great books for children.
I loved Jennings and Derbyshire too. Thanks for reminding me.
@@marycrawford1594 No problem.
I really, really loved those books. They were the first books where I became aware of characterization, all the characters were well-drawn and seemed three-dimensional to me, it wasn't just the plot or action that kept me reading.
They were also very funny, very British too.
Now I'm a Texan.
Cheers from Texas😁
Dan Wootton is really entertaining but I end up staying up really late. I find the panels are really engaging. Love GB news.