New Janice Turner article, "Want to burn books? Take a tip from the Nazis"

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www.thetimes.co.uk/article/want-to-burn-books-take-a-tip-from-the-nazis-xnd5ghzlr

Does anyone have a share token for this, as I'd love to read it?

Yes, me too!

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/8bb52476-f853-11ea-bed0-373a3c830095?shareToken=5193dbb12d3f581617b662a648f94adb

From the comments, I didn't hear Hislop say it the first time but

"I always remember Ian Hislop in HIGNFY saying it's a pity the Jedward twins werent't called Paul and Rick."

I enjoyed that. I think Jedward advocating the burning of JKR's new book without reading it (I mean, both of them? In one day? Nah...) is going to my latest talking point in "wtf is wrong with the world" conversations.

@Ereshkigalangcleg

From the comments, I didn't hear Hislop say it the first time but

"I always remember Ian Hislop in HIGNFY saying it's a pity the Jedward twins werent't called Paul and Rick."

@Ereshkigalangcleg

From the comments, I didn't hear Hislop say it the first time but

"I always remember Ian Hislop in HIGNFY saying it's a pity the Jedward twins werent't called Paul and Rick."

That took me much too long to work out...

I saw that too, Eresh! Most excellent

Aren’t they getting a bit long in the tooth now, those boys? Can’t wait for all these millennials to be middle aged themselves and suddenly discover how utterly irrelevant they are to the next generation. Which I hope will be a lot more sensible.

My life goal now is to live long enough to see that.

RufustheSniggeringReindeer
That took me much too long to work out...

I'm not there yet...........

Helen Dale on Twitter: twitter.com/_HelenDale/status/1306334066636189697

"Every time you burn an author’s book, the money you paid for it disappears from his or her bank account. True story"

I'm not there yet

You need to remember that Jedward is a portmanteau of John and Edward.

I'm not a native English speaker but I thought my reading comprehension was pretty decent, yet I cannot make head or tail of the comments by Peter Burgess. What is he actuall trying to say?

Nobody knows, Igneococcus; nobody knows. Hence all the comments asking him WTF he’s going on about, and if he’s on drugs

In other words - don’t worry, it’s not you, it’s him!

"The Nazis knew the secret of book-burning was to build a pyre with a whole bunch of volumes, as with the library of Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institut für Sexualwissenschaft incinerated in Berlin for its scientific research on sex. (Spooky! Rowling’s views on biological sex — ie that it exists — are controversial too. Guys, it’s an omen!)"

Interesting choice for an example - The Institut für Sexualwissenschaft performed some of the first SRS procedures. They also coined the term 'transexualism', employed trans staff members and lobbied the police to stop harassing GNC people. Small wonder the Nazis hated them.

(Naturally, the Nazis didn't burn the staff or patient records...)

Such an apt and tasteful comparison for a poor, beleaguered billionaire pulp fiction author whose burnt books have already been paid for!

@TastelessBracelets

Helen Dale on Twitter: twitter.com/_HelenDale/status/1306334066636189697

"Every time you burn an author’s book, the money you paid for it disappears from his or her bank account. True story"

Helen Dale nicked that from JK. She quote-tweeted someone threatening to burn her books by saying 'oh no, please don't' and then a way more eloquent version of the above.

It doesn't matter I suppose but I always hate it when people steal and pass things off as their own ideas.

RoyalCorgi thanks! It's so obvious once you see it

They always remind me of those puppets from Big Breakfast. Still it must be nice for them to be relevant again

They always remind me of those puppets from Big Breakfast

No way! Zig and Zag were cool.

This was my favourite of Jo Rowling’s responses to the burning brigade