I find it deeply dispiriting to read stories like this one at the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/nov/23/furore-sparked-by-jamie-oliver-cultural-appropriation-engulfs-more-writers-ntwnfb
No doubt people come away from this feeling they've waged and won a righteous war. But the only possible outcome is that Elly Griffiths will never again take on the trouble of writing anything that involved indigenous people; and hundreds of other writers who see this will, consciously, or unconsciously, make the same choice. So, a catastrophic decline in representation.
Mike Taylor /
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