i've read rit's ayf salman rushdie's read the satanic verses. . i've read rit's a brilliant piece die's read the satanic verses. i've read rit's a brilliant piece ofe's work. it's a brilliant piece of work. it's a brilliant piece of work. it's a brilliant piece of work. i think the first thing that do is be that we should all do is be promoting that book and promoting that book and promoting work and standing promoting that book and prohim.1g work and standing promoting that book and prohim. i] work and standing promoting that book and prohim. i find work and standing promoting that book and prohim. i find itork and standing promoting that book and prohim. i find it genuinelyanding by him. i find it genuinely disturbing people disturbing that so many people who better are who should know better are failing do so. but we're failing to do so. but we're seeing this absolutely across the work the board saying that the work is it caused is offensive and that it caused offence, and therefore he effectively deserve effectively didn't deserve to have pol

yes josh, i think salman rushdie nailed it there. really? >> yeah. mean, taking sides against islamic or any form of extremism and violence. it's totally insane. >> i mean, you know, this islamist extremist stabbed him multiple times, almost killed him, hospitalised him for writing a book. yeah if the royal society of literature can't make a statement about that, what are they for? good >> well, exactly what are they good for? and they're also there to celebrate excellence. and my understanding have to have traditionally you have to have written two seminal books. yes um, so you're in there. uh thank you very much. and um, they're not returning my calls for submissions. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> and, uh, yeah. so but now they're opening that up, and you don't even have return don't even have to return a book. read one thing, book. or you can read one thing, and doesn't be and that doesn't have to be seminal. it'sjust if and that doesn't have to be seminal. it's just if you're nominated. yeah. it's not nominated. yeah. so it's not it's meet remit it's fail

there's salman rushdie.'m suggesting salman rushdie is a common man, but, you know, other the batley other people. the batley grammar teacher . uh, there's and teacher. uh, so there's been and obviously all the terror attacks and people have been, and stuff. so people have been, you under you know, living, living under the of, threats from , the cosh of, uh, threats from, uh, islamic extremism for, for a while . and this de facto, um , while. and this de facto, um, blasphemy law when a quran was, was scuffed at a school in wakefield . um, you know, the wakefield. um, you know, the mother put on a put on a headscarf and did this grovel ing apology front of the ing apology in front of the muslim elders. hopefully, now that it's the that are that it's the elites that are being targeted, something will actually being targeted, something will actualljust capitulate quicker. they'll just capitulate quicker. but interesting, but what's very interesting, trigonometry has an exclusive interview coming out on tuesday.

peter: don delillo, salman rushdie, hillary clinton, stephen king, jasmine ward. owns scribner's now? charles: those names you have just mentioned really belong to the current administration post family ownership. we can take no credit for those. did you begin with reinhold niebuhr? the current ones. they belong to the current administration which is headed by nanogram. it is an imprint of simon & schuster which has just been bought by henry kravis organization. ironically, kravis together with the administration of mac millan, which my dad and i had orchestrated a very friendly and desired merger of scribner's into mcmillan to give it a solid foundation in the 80's, it was bought by this pirate robert maxwell. he went overboard on his yacht three years later. henry kravis's company and the management of mcmillan, they lost out on that bidding. that was 1888 -- 18, please. 1988. here we are 35 years later. kravis's company buys not only scribner's and the mcmillan titles which are part of scribner but all of simon & schuster. which is where mcmillan and scribner e

i mean, we've seen this for now, since salman for decades now, since salman rushdie threatened. threatened. we've grammar we've seen the batley grammar school, rigby we've seen the batley grammar schoo beheaded. rigby we've seen the batley grammar schoo beheaded. there'stigby being beheaded. there's been a lot lot of incidents that lot of a lot of incidents that should absolute should have been an absolute inflection point in society where this, we need where we're like this, we need to on this, but it's to get a grip on this, but it's easier just keep the easier to just keep kicking the can down road and hope can down the road and hope somebody going to deal somebody else is going to deal with it. but eventually it's going we're going to reach some point. we're going to reach some point. we're going you some going to have, you know, some sort there's be some sort of there's going to be some sort of there's going to be some sort horrific incident. sort of horrific incident. i don't could be more don't know what could be more horrific than, you know, the manchester bombing, manch

he salman rushdie comments that he later distancede course of past 15 over the course of the past 15 years, british government years, the british government has um, doing has maintained not, um, doing business with mcb, we business with the mcb, which we should procession should say has had a procession of since then. of leaders since then. it doesn't some of noises doesn't make some of the noises that might made that it might have made previously . also, i think the previously. also, i think the general policy the british general policy of the british state over decades to state over many decades to basically relate to basically try to relate to ethnic minority or religious minority communities is by either or dealing with either backing or dealing with these organisations, has empowered them to a certain extent. now they're of extent. and now they're kind of reaping that, reaping the whirlwind of that, too. is extended too. so this is an extended policy, still something policy, but it's still something which is people complain all t