‘Updating’ Roald Dahl? It’s the same old story… | David Mitchell

Rewriting the children's author is about profit not wokeness' - part of the endless recycling and exploitation of old ideas

Good news for me: the series of ITV's Endeavour that starts airing tonight will be the last. Hooray! I hate Endeavour. A lot. In fact, I would have italicised the word hate" to emphasise the fact, if I hadn't worried that it would look weird next to the italicised title of the programme. But please imagine it was italicised.

Just to qualify my hatred: I have never watched Endeavour and, having heard only positive reports, am convinced I would enjoy it. I haven't watched it as a point of principle because, in my view, it shouldn't exist. It shouldn't exist because it spoils Inspector Morse.