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November 18, 2007
The pursuit of progress and diversity
Here is a photo of the MLA board for the region of Yorkshire
In Leeds alone book lending in public libraries has fallen by 28% in just 5 years since the MLA started.. let's hope these good people know what they are about. In York the fall has been 23%. Of course those are the kind of figures this team will be pawing over on their day trips to lovely Harewood House.
Further south their colleagues have taken up the fine art of censorship as once practised by The Lord Chamberlain ! What goes around comes around -- "We know what you shouldn't read" . In this house a book called '100 ways to keep your cat awake and make it useful' has been banned and we are all much the better for that.
Posted by Perkins at November 18, 2007 1:01 PM