Britain has a tyrannical new law requiring everyone, even highly respected authors of books for children, to be registered in a government database before they will be allowed to read to children in any UK school. "This is a law made by people with a bleak and twisted view of society," says Anthony Horowitz, author of Power of Five and the Diamond Brothers children's book series. More on the law from The Independent.
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July 16, 2009
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