5 . Was everyone on board with the idea , or did you face backlash ?
We received a lot of abuse after publishing a statement outlining our commitment to anti-racism in 2020 , but so far there has been very little pushback about the books themselves . There was a story in a UK newspaper which accused us of ‘ cancelling Caecilius ’ but the newspaper did not actually make a serious attempt to understand our work , instead speculating about what we might be doing and thinking . An article in a different newspaper , which did engage with the new content , was far more positive and presented the changes as commonsensical . This is one example of a lot of subsequent positive coverage which took this approach , ironically including the paper that had originally published an article criticising the work . To be honest this ‘ it ’ s common sense ’ attitude is far more representative of the response from most people than any sense of outrage .