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Gun porn: Put shooting magazines on the top shelf where they belong, Notebook

Gun porn: Put shooting magazines on the top shelf where they belong

Cold blooded shooting is bad enough, but turning six year olds into close range bunny shooters is beyond any civilised society. A responsible government would shoot the sport in the head once and for all. Consigning “shooting porn” to the top shelf would be a start.

By | Notebook, Opinion | Thursday, 6 September 2012 at 4:11 pm

Extreme porn and state-enabled voyeurism, Notebook

Extreme porn and state-enabled voyeurism

In a landmark case for the state versus privacy, Simon Walsh, former aide to Boris Johnson, was this week cleared of charges of having ‘extreme’ images and an indecent image of a child.

By | Notebook, Opinion | Thursday, 9 August 2012 at 12:57 pm

Fifty Shades of Porn, Arts

Fifty Shades of Porn

Last week, I was asked whether Fifty Shades of Grey is anti-feminist, but I don’t think so, for one simple reason: I think Fifty Shades is a good thing.

By | Arts, Notebook, Opinion | Tuesday, 10 July 2012 at 11:49 am

Literary porn saved, as Paypal abandons effort to censor smutty books, Arts

Literary porn saved, as Paypal abandons effort to censor smutty books

There is happy news for admirers of the sort of literature which inspired Tom Lehrer to hymn the delights of a: “dirty novel I can’t shut.”
Almost a fortnight after it announced that it would henceforth refuse to process payments for self-published novels it regarded as “obscene,” the eBay subsidiary Paypal has performed a somewhat untidy [...]

By | Arts | Wednesday, 14 March 2012 at 2:43 am

Skepta’s new video: a step too far?, Notebook

Skepta’s new video: a step too far?

In case you missed it, grime MC Skepta has a new music video out.
When he tweeted a couple of weeks ago, ‘Today I’m starring in my 1st adult movie,’ fans probably expected a bit of raunchiness. But when the video for All Over The House dropped at the weekend, raunchy proved to be an understatement.
Upon [...]

By | Notebook | Thursday, 24 March 2011 at 12:56 pm

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