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Nicola Bulley: "We Can Let You Rest Now"

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You Can't Say Ugly Anymore

You're not allowed to say fat. For Augustus Glue, exactly. Weirdly, you're notallowed to say black, it seems. Various items of clothing called the were black and now no longer black. So, white and black seem to be bad. Ugly's bad. That's Mrs Twitt from the Twitts. She's no longer ugly and beastly, but she's just beastly. And it's caused some consternation. I mean, when the likes of Salman Rushdie says this is a mistake, particularly at this particular point in our journey with Salman Rushdie, you've got to think, is something going on. At the same time,

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