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Desperate Video: Jaws, Kong, Disney, Depravity And Corruption

Our latest collection of video features from our YouTube channel covers everything from banned books to Disney novelties.

Raindance 2024: The Click Trap

The Click Trap explores the world of online disinformation – but ironically does so in a rather subjective and biased way.

The BBFC Doesn’t Know What It Is Doing

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The BBFC prepares to change its guidelines based on fickle public opinion – doesn’t this suggest that its supposed ‘expertise’ counts for nothing?

The Forbidden Weekend – The BBC’s Censorship Season

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Film censorship explored in a 1995 BBC season of controversial movies and documentaries that explore the BBFC and British moral attitudes.

The Satanic Panic Is Alive And Well In Utah

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The Mormon state takes a deep dive back into one of the more hysterical moral panics of the 1980s.

Sack The Act – The Fight Back Against The Appalling Online Safety Act

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A new campaign aims to end the British government’s oppressive internet censorship laws before they cause more harm than they already have.

This Morning And Richard Madeley Explore The Exotic World Of Body Piercing

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The bumbling TV presenter attempts to make navel piercings seem like the extremes of body modification in a spectacularly cringeworthy broadcast from 1994.

Let’s Hear It For Adult Entertainment’s Body Positivity

X-rated entertainment celebrates every adult size, shape, age, gender and sexuality – let’s stop blaming it for body shaming and cultural conformity.

The Pointless Stupidity Of Graham Bright

The man behind the Video Recordings Act – and the ban on ‘repetitive beat music’ – has died.

Foregone Conclusions In Search Of Evidence: Yet Another British Government Moral Panic

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The head of the newly-announced ‘review’ into the effects of adult entertainment sounds suspiciously as though she has already made her mind up on the subject.

Massive Twits: Performative Outrage Over ‘Rude’ Art

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An outraged mother tries to preserve her son’s innocence by making him pose next the ‘offensive’ artwork that allegedly ‘ruined his childhood’.

An Adult Panto Is Cancelled For Being ‘Too Adult’

The ludicrous story of the demise of ‘a panto for grown-ups’ at the hands of prudish theatre officials and social media moaners after just one performance.