the funniest part of the Burchill thing to me was that the inciting incident was her being moved to defend the honour of... Rod Liddle

you know, this guy

incidentally, I found out another trivia point the other day that has gone a long way to explaining the UK to me
guess what year child pornography became illegal in England

NINETEEN EIGHTY SEVEN

should finally end the argument you hear occasionally that it should be legalised because it makes nonces less likely to nonce in real life, in that noncing rates did not sharply increase in the later Thatcher years

also I think explains a lot about Savile, Rolf Harris, you name it - people knew and just didn’t care or feel they were doing anything that bad

genuinely coming to believe that a revulsion with pedophilia is something we’ve just recently developed and it’s a horrifying thought