Farrah Tomazin in The Sydney Morning Age has written a cracking expose on banning books. It’s a broadside at hardline Christians in the USA. They’ve been doing this since ‘The Origin of the Species’ came out but it’s worth a story.

Ms Tomazin failed to mention the role Cancel Culture has played in banning books and attacking authors but if you’re having a crack at the God-botherers, why would you? Except of course it’s critical to the story and it’s even flagged in the headline.

Now, if you pair that story with my story on book banning and Cancel Culture, which appeared (oddly) in Quadrant (no one else would publish it), then you’ve got a snap shot on the political sewer bubbling below literary publications (fiction and non fiction).

It’s weird because elements of the bonkers far left Cancel Culture Red Guards have much in common with the bonkers far right Christians in the States. Got a problem? Ban it.

As Bob Roberts said in the movie of the same name, “the times are changing back“.