![]() This is not because Peter is a thief, a vandal, a disobedient rascal who, when ordered to go blackberrying with his siblings, nips off to wreck Mr McGregor's vegetable patch, falls in a watering can and turns up at home with a lost jacket, having overdosed on stolen parsley. ![]() The latest cultural warrior in need of a calming brew and a chat is Dr Emily Zobel Marshall, 'Reader in Postcolonial Literature' at Leeds Beckett University.Įmily has got it in for Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit. Sometimes, with the greatest gentleness and respect, you want to buy a cup of tea for a well-meaning campaigner - and explain to them that if they ever managed to rebuild the world as they want to, it would only become duller, sadder, lonelier and more mistrustful. ![]()
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