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The Cheeky Girls: how we made Cheeky Song (Touch My Bum)
‘It has been voted the worst song ever. I think that’s just people’s way of saying it’s the best’Me and my twin sister Monica had been invited to audition at the Royal Opera House when the show Popstars: The Rivals came along in 2002. If it wasn’t for that we... -
Enid Blyton had racist views. But I still read her
Criticising past authors for their views doesn’t mean we must consign their books to the scrapheapIn 1965 the eminent American science-fiction writer John W Campbell wrote an essay titled The Barbarians Within. In it, he recommended that “the barbarian” – and it was clear he meant African Americans – be...