Is it a good thing or a bad thing that Tintin in the Congo is currently sitting at number five in the Amazon best sellers list? This follows everyone suddenly noticing that a book first published between 1930 and 1931 is actually a bit racist. I don’t believe that this is particularly new news, and tend to agree with Giles Foden writing in today’s Guardian – I can’t find a link but essentially he says that it should be removed from the children’s section but should still be made available, and lists some other classics that have also been accused of racism, fascism or other labels. But the story certainly seems to have reinvigorated interest in the title.