Face of Nation : Plans to give Enid Blyton a commemorative coin were stopped because the author is known to have had “racist, sexist and homophobic” views. The Royal Mint revealed that plans to put the face of the beloved children’s writer on a 50p coin were blocked over fears it would provoke a backlash. According to the Mail Online, members of the group said that the creator of The Famous Five, Noddy and The Secret Seven was “a racist, sexist, homophobe and not a very well-regarded writer”. The Independent
