Girls (Scream) Allowed. For now.
As you may have heard, last week saw the collapse of a (fairly) high profile attempt to resuscitate the 1959 Obscene Publications Act in respect of written material found on the internet. Darryn Walker, a 35 year old civil servant from Tyneside who looks uncannily like the Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons, had written a particularly nauseating story about the pop group Girls Aloud, and had deposited it in an online archive. Afua Hirsch, whose in-depth (and somewhat pro-censorship) analysis