Awful censorship of a school library in Greater Manchester. Not only are they misguidedly "protecting" teens from Twilight and the Da Vinci Code (alongside many more serious books), they're hounding their librarian with a disciplinary investigation.
https://www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/school-book-banning-escalates-in-the-uk-as-greater-manchester-secondary-school-censors-scores-of-books/
#Censorship #Libraries #UKschools
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Head of Editorial at DOAJ (@DOAJ); Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE; #C0PE) member; Cambridge Greens member 🌻🌍; runner 🏃. All opinions my own. Previously: #OpenAccess journals at Hindawi, PLOS, BMC; #ResearchIntegrity Manager at UKRIO; COPE council; European Association of Science Editors (EASE) Treasurer. 💍 to @SimoneChalkley. Owned by a cat. 🐈 #PublicationEthics #GreenParty #GPEW #CambridgeUK #SciComm #Running
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Matt Hodgkinson
@mattjhodgkinson@scicomm.xyz
Head of Editorial at DOAJ (@DOAJ); Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE; #C0PE) member; Cambridge Greens member 🌻🌍; runner 🏃. All opinions my own. Previously: #OpenAccess journals at Hindawi, PLOS, BMC; #ResearchIntegrity Manager at UKRIO; COPE council; European Association of Science Editors (EASE) Treasurer. 💍 to @SimoneChalkley. Owned by a cat. 🐈 #PublicationEthics #GreenParty #GPEW #CambridgeUK #SciComm #Running
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