Take my advice and steer clear of your local university. It is not just the flu that’s spreading on campus. Last month, an outbreak of trigger warnings occurred at the University of Essex . Up they popped, warning literature students about ‘violence, slavery, racism, and suicide’ in Hamlet , A Clockwork Orange and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Those infected showed signs of ignorance and hysteria.

Now the plague has spread to Glasgow. Students at this ancient university are being warned that Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, the first in J. K. Rowling’s series about the boy wizard, contains ‘outdated attitudes, abuse and language’. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, The Treasure Seekers by Edith Nesbit and First Term at Malory Towers , Enid Blyton’s 1946 gi

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