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Two children’s laureates to give royalties to Sally Rooney after her UK sales halted

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Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fne8w2ah@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨unitedkingdom@feddit.uk⁩

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/oct/25/ireland-wales-children-laureates-chris-haughton-nicola-davies-sally-rooney-royalties-ban-on-uk-sales

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  • crapwittyname@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This adds another layer of farce to the whole thing.
    Remember, the proscription places Palestine Action in the same bucket as Al-Qaeda. Imagine if the Welsh children’s laureate donated their royalties to another author in solidarity with their support for Al -Qaeda. We would be reassessing that laureateship at the very least. But nothing like that will happen, because the proscription of PA is ridiculous, and everyone knows it.

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    • mlcgdrhu@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      We don’t have a spectrum. PA fit the bill for proscription.

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      • crapwittyname@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        We don’t have a spectrum

        We do. Because, as implied above, PA are not as bad as Al-Qaeda. For example.

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