KirrusA School in Manchester banned a lot of books,. And destroyed a librarians career. I read a lot of these as a teenager from my School library, this is nuts, they were fine. https://www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/school-book-banning-escalates-in-the-uk-as-greater-manchester-secondary-school-censors-scores-of-books/
NatalyaD@kirrus @revk what is horrifying is that the council accepted the AI judgment on the books which the school librarian association said wasn't correct, the evidence about how many books wasn't shared with the council and currently this poor librarian now can't work with kids cos she has a safeguarding black mark on her record now.
Michael Horne@kirrus Pratchett was on the list? PRATCHETT? Was on the list? FFS.
Þór Sigurðsson@kirrus Seriously, WTF?
Is Manchester (or even England) becoming a right-wing pseudo-Christian-extremist like what is happening in the US ?
If that's the case, then perhaps just best England stays outside the EU for good?
Even better, cut the anchor and tow the dumpster-fire to "Gulf of America" 🤬 Then we can have N-Ireland, Scotland and Wales rejoin the EU and rejoice!
@thor not systemic. Just one headteacher with too much power and reliance on AI. Blame the Tories for their 'academy' school system
@kirrus great! Then we just pack uð Manchester and send them to the Moon, because there should have been in place safeguards to stop this kind of fascist actions.
@thor not the whole of Manchester, just one School. Should have safeguard sure, but New School system is new, it happens
@kirrus Still a reason for grave concern.
Brexit started with "only" one company.
USA's current state of fascism started with "only" one person.
Once you have normalized control by fear in one place, the disease spreads easily - and quickly.
Don't forget Germany and Italy and Spain.