More on Tintin

I noted a few weeks ago that following the controversy over Tintin in the Congo, it was storming the Amazon charts (it's currently 115).

So it was interesting to note that in Hergé's own home country, state prosecutors are considering whether charges can be brought. Ridiculous, I know. Plenty of racist/sexist/homophobic books are available to buy - not least Hitler's very own Mein Kampf. And so they should be. We shouldn't be trying to whitewash (pun intended) our history. We should understand that for good or bad, these views were accepted by many people in our past.

Anyway, I was also tickled, in some perverse way, to note that the very store where all this trouble started, when the title was inappropriately placed in the children's section, is now displaying the book on its front of store tables.

Walk into Borders on Oxford Street currently, and you'll see Tintin In Tibet proudly placed on the first table you come to as you enter the shop!