SIR Salman Rushdie knows about upfront censorship: last year he was nearly killed by a man who said he disliked his views on Islam and he spent a decade in hiding after a fatwa from Iran.
He is, then, something of an expert on how writing is policed, so we should note his stand on the soft censorship of Roald Dahl by Puffin, the publishers of his children’s books. He called it “absurd” and said “Puffin Books and the Dahl estate should be ashamed”.
