News of the Smacks

The News of the World gets a good smacking over the Max Mosley, alleged nazi bottom- smacking orgy. Defending the right of any Englishman, or woman Stan, to pretend to be a Nazi, Margaret Thatcher, Geoff Hurst or indeed a German gaoler.

In this case I don't defend the News of the World's right ot put a camera on a prostitute to film a five-hour smacking German style orgy, is that of interest to anyone even if he does want to be Goebbels being belted for spilling his porridge, as it were. A lot of people get up to a lot of things in bedrooms, kitchens and custom-built dungeons that doesn't mean they are actually those dreams and fantasies they play out and enact.

You do have to wonder about the News of the World, what prurient little school boys they were, titering behind their hands at such naughtiness. They are supposed to have looked good and hard at the film, I'm sure they were. How could you argue that this was in the public's interest? If they'd won that would have put a policeman in every bedroom in Britain, now that's a thought.