Cameron the porn crusader

The walls of Herculaneum are covered with vile pornography depicting sexual acts of amazing and imaginative depravity, painted into wet plaster with rare care and skill some 2,000 years ago. And the camera hadn't been invented for five minutes in the 1850's before it was being used to capture unfortunate young women who had forgotten to put any clothes on. Muybridge had hardly let the silver nitrate dry on his stop-action galloping horse pics before an assistant was using the technique to capture a creature with two backs; the polaroid Land camera's popularity owed little to instant photos of family birthday parties, VHS won over Betamax becsuse of Californian pornography and indeed it is estimated that one minute in three spent on the interweb is spent watching porn.

Cameron wants to draw a distinction between 'good' porn and 'bad' porn, in other words to regulate international porn on the internet in conformity with UK laws on sexual behaviour. Never mind that sex with a Turbot is legal in Kazakhstan, or miffling is permitted after dark in Tashkent. Oh well, good luck to him.

Paedo Jihadists

The Times reports that tens of thousands of paedo images are regularly found on the computers of Jihadists, and it reports police speculation that images are being used to carry hidden terrorist messages.

Nonsense. If they wanted to swap images to carry messages they'd use innocuous family snaps rather than images that attract the attention of every police force in the West. The simple answer is that they're evil perverts. You have to be a pervert to contemplate causing the deaths of a planeload of innocents by definition, so it's hardly surprising that they pretend to revere Mohammed whilst gloating over their kiddie porn collections as well. And don't forget that Mohammed himself took a nine-year old child as his bride, thus perhaps kicking off the whole paedo thing.