Tory Shadow Culture Secretary said that the BBFC appeared to be 'losing its grip' when it passed Baise-Moi with cuts and then issued a press release regretting the necessity to cut it. Ainsworth responded: This is just crazy. To pass a film like this on the one hand and then apologise on the other makes no sense at all.

The illiberal Liberal who has spent so long campaigning against all things liberal. He is still at it in the Lords as we speak (albeit as a crossbencher). Most infamous for the Alton Amendment to the Criminal Justice Bill that would have removed all 15 and 18 videos from the home market. He suggested the award of the certificate "not suitable for home viewing". Even Michael Howard had to step in moderate this amendment on realisation that such films as Schindler's List would be banned. Unfortunately the compromise entailed even stricter censorship of UK videos with a new shopping list of new criteria of harm for the BBFC to consider. Another key sponsor of this amendment was Tony Blair.

Continued his work with a failed attempt to amend the Crime & Disorder Bill to enable organisations to appeal against BBFC certificates. The rub was that these organisations would be hand picked by the Home Office so as to achieve the result that Alton desires.

As films minister at the Department of Culture, Media and Sport, she has called for the banning of Eros TV.  She said: Hard-core pornography is not acceptable in this country.

Although she feels fit to pass moral judgement over those that enjoy porn she does not exactly occupy the high moral ground herself. She has apparently been involved with fellow MP Jim Dowd and has been instrumental in the break up of his previous 23 year long relationship.

As shadow women's minister Mrs Anderson outraged MPs at the Labour Party conference two years ago when she said: Under Labour women will become more promiscuous.

Green Party MSP for North East Scotland, exaggerated somewhat about an Edinburgh showing of Deep Throat: This documentary of a film which is widely held to have no cultural or artistic merit is no more than an attempt to legitimise pornography and condone the abuse and degradation of women.

Lord Bassam of Brighton

A shameful JackBoots Straw stooge at the Home Office who is happy to to echo JackBoots' sentiments when it comes to the legalisation of adult consensual hardcore. Brings shame to the good liberal name of Brighton.

Key supporter of David Alton's repressive amendment to the Criminal Justice Bill. He displays incredibly bad taste by actually listening to the advice of the disgraced arch-moralist of the Daily Mail, Paul Johnson

In a speech titled:  Our Nation's Future - Social Exclusion, Tony Blair said: It is not for the State to tell people that they cannot choose a different lifestyle, for example in issues to do with sexuality. Just a few days earlier his Government had announced a law to imprison viewers of extreme, but staged, pornography for up to 3 years!

Labour Home Secretary on the subject of allowing evidence obtained under torture to be used in British courts: Let me make it clear, we unreservedly condemn the use of torture and have worked hard with our international partners to eradicate this practice. BUT... it would be irresponsible not to take appropriate account of any information that could help protect national security and public safety.

Issued the proscription order for the satellite porn channels Rendez-Vous and Satisfaction Club Television. Clearly done for votes as she waited nearly a year until the Tory party conference before acting.

One of the most vocal of the current unholy cross party alliance of parliamentary censors. He is a key spokesman of "The Conservative Family Campaign" who seem to believe that our freedom of choice should be limited to Teletubbies or the Wombles.

His reactionary stance of calling for mandatory prison for dangerous drivers ended abruptly after an unfortunate fatal accident in Italy.

The sponsor of the Private Members Bill that became the Video Recordings Act of 1984 sanctioning state censorship of every video released in the UK.

Labour prime minister from 2007.

Gordon Brown spoke at the press conference to launch the Byron Review into protecting children from games and videos:

"I am not interested in censorship at all...BUT...I think we do need rules governing some aspects of the internet and videos where children are involved and the whole purpose of this review would be to draw on the advice of all sources so that we can look at this in a sensible way".

Extending the scope of his attack on knife culture, Brown said that the makers and sellers of violent video and computer games must shoulder some responsibility:

"No one wants censorship or an interfering state...BUT... the industry has a responsibility to society and needs to exercise that."

Labour MP for Regents Park and Kensington North. Sponsor of the motion to force phone companies to bar numbers found on cards in phone boxes.We are not trying to make London like Disneyland and pretend that prostitution does not exist, but this is now a serious issue.

(How about just allowing the girls to advertise in legal publications?)

Leading light in the Westminster Council decision to ban Crash from its local cinemas

President of the United States of Warmongers.

Speaking about American TV regulation:

...make sure you protect the capacity of people to speak freely in our society, BUT... be willing to, if things go too far, call them to account.

We are a great society because we are a free society, BUT... on the other hand, it is very important for there to be limits.

Prospective Tory leader who blames the world's ills on computer games saying they are fuelling the rise in anti-social behaviour.

He said he would build a ‘comprehensive anti-crime policy’ that would ‘not only strengthen the criminal justice system, but re-civilise our society’.

Home Office minister pushing through one of the most repressive censorship laws proposed for the UK for a long time. The Dangerous Pictures Act will see people locked up for 3 years merely for viewing pictures of staged violent porn.

Was particularly noted for a shameful distortion of the truth when claiming on a BBC programme that the majority of respondents supported the Government extreme porn proposals.

Leader of Nottingham Council.  Seems to let his own views override the justification required by law and got duely criticised by the relvant ombudsman.

Leeds licensing committee chairman.

She denied that she and members of her committee were interfering in people's freedom of choice ...But Bride of Chucky would not necessarily be seen in Leeds.

What I don't like about this Chucky business is that they are using a toy and turning it into a little monster. I find the whole thing very depressing, The real question is why these type of films have to be made. Have they got no morals, or is making money the only thing they are interested in? Distributors are "exploitative, They deliberately create a market. I don't believe that people are so sick in their minds that there is a market. I think somebody has to make a stand and say 'What do you think you are doing?' Cohen said she could not understand why people made movies like Bride of Chucky or how they attracted audiences. Instead she cited Schindler's List as an example of a "good" film and said movies should contain a good story, social message and should contribute to society "in a meaningful way". Although she had not yet seen the film, she dismissed Bride of Chucky, which stars Oscar nominee Jennifer Tilly, as "crap". What does this kind of film prove? We have created a sick society and we are just pandering to that sick society, she added.

Hammersmith and Fulham MP who worked unsuccessfully along side John Humphrys to rid their area of Secrets table dancing club.

In trying to get support for his campaign he wrote: I am concerned about the effective lack of control of establishments such as these which use sexual behaviour to enhance their trade.

I have since heard that in the early 80s, Iain Coleman used to work in the Ann Summers chain of shops. In fact his father, Ron Coleman, was a part owner at this time. Iain Coleman then used to admirably participate in local radio programmes, eg on LBC, in strenuous defence of the sex industry!

Glasgow Deputy Council leader on the subject of lap dancing in Glasgow:

This council has taken a stand against the proliferation of such venues in the belief that they exploit and demean women and hamper our bid to promote gender equality.

And later on the same topic:

When will they get the message? This kind of entertainment is not welcome in Glasgow. It is against the council's policies on equality, violence against women and prostitution. The message is quite clear - the people of Glasgow do not want this. We're not going to go down the route of Edinburgh and the likes and allow the city to be taken over by these sleazy venues.

Hornchurch MP joined the nutter opposition to an application to open a sex shop in Hornchurch This is the last thing the area needs. After losing a vital public service in the former post office, we now have someone wanting to replace selling stamps and processing pensions to peddling porn magazines and sleaze.

Claire Curtis-Thomas Crosby Labour MP

Proposed a Bill to establish an Office for the Regulation of the Sale and Display of Sexually Explicit Material of which she somehow includes lads mags

Pastor at the head of the fundamentalist Cornerstone Ministries group of churches based in Esher,joined other fundamentalist religious groups in the campaign against the video release of Crash. See also Yusuf Islam

Scottish Nationalist MSP seems to relish in the persecution of kerb crawlers: It seems to me the punter is going to escape scot free again and again and that's not what we want. He said he planned to table an amendment to shift the emphasis of the Bill to make it an offence to buy or attempt to buy sex.

As director of the BBFC for 23 years, James Ferman did well to stay out of the Hall of Shame for a long time. Unfortunately in the last few weeks of office his place of shame was clinched by a statement in a Radio 4 documentary:

When I came to the Board my goal was more freedom for adults and more protection for children. I've come round to thinking we need more freedom for children and less for adults

Labour Minster for the Arts who supports censorship to protect human dignity

Holier than thou Scottish Tory MP who believes that all group sex should be made illegal.

I do not propose or foresee some kind of snooper force lurking behind bedroom doors but I do feel strongly that Parliament should not condone such activities through legislation.

Setting dangerous legal precedents by continually suing the messengers ie ISP's for the alleged libels by internet users. I don't wish to challenge anyone's right to freedom of speech but I have a right to damages if I'm damaged by their exercise of their right to free speech.

Wythenshawe, Labour MP & Under Secretary of State, spoke about the 15 rated video game, Silent Hill: and "deplored" the company's tactics in trying to boost sales in a morbid way. He will ask Home Secretary Jackboots Straw what action he could take to prevent or restrict sales.

Later on he put his name to a repressive measure to criminalise the possession of violent pornography (even when consensual and staged)

The measure was introduced with the statement that it was to limit extreme pornography. By extreme” we mean material which is violent and abusive, featuring activities which are illegal in themselves and where, in some cases, participants may have been the victims of criminal offences. BUT... reading further into the paper they will in fact criminalise those owning videos with consensual staged violence as in many horror films with a sexy theme. Just because real violence may be a little hard for the persecutors to prove.

Scottish Parliament shadow Social Justice Minister.

Commenting on a report that one in five young men and one in ten women thought that violence against women was acceptable pointed the finger of blame at the media and entertainment industries. She said: The violence of pornography is there for all to access whether on the bus, the video, the magazine, the web.

It is here young men and women are subjected to the influences that make them devalue each other’s sexuality, contaminating respect for each other as people and cannot be detached from violence in all its forms against women.

Leader of Christian Voice, aggressive nutters who have allowed threats and intimidation to be speak louder than tolerance and compassion. Hopefully this is down to Stephen Green, rather than Christianity as a whole

Christian Voice published the addresses of BBC officers who they believed were connected with the showing of Jerry Springer: The Opera leading to threats of violence. Since then they have pressured charities into not accepting much need money from donors they don't agree with and have decided to target their aggression on pregnant women attending abortion centres. Green said: The taking of innocent blood brings judgment on our land and cries to Heaven for vengeance. Green is also homophobic saying: Homosexuality is a pathology, an emotional or psychological disorder. It is a very sad thing but it is something you can get over.

Labour MEP who reckons: Sex and violence on television should be regulated by the Government to protect children, the 9PM watershed should be scrapped and all programmes should be checked for content. Many children watched TV unsupervised and ministers had a duty to protect 'TV orphans'.

Hereditary peer who introduced A house of Lords amendment to the Obscene Publications Act that defines all depictions of sex as obscene and enables the imprisonment of anyone vaguely connected to the distribution chain. Clearly his hatred of porn over shadows his sense of justice, tolerance and civilisation.

Injustice minister pushing through one of the most repressive censorship laws proposed for the UK for a long time. The Dangerous Pictures Act will see people locked up for 3 years merely for viewing pictures of staged violent porn.

Labour solicitor general.

Wants to blame customers for the problem of sex trafficking. The problem is surely caused by the Government themselves as they refuse to allow a legal framework in which the business can be run properly. Harman is also guilty of the usual political bollox of casually linking adult prostitution with serious crimes related to child prostitution.

Is leading an evangelical group in their campaign to get the recent cinema re-release of The Exorcist stopped.

The group set up a team of counselors to help people who feel they have been adversely affected by what they have seen on the screen. Hathaway said that The Exorcist was evil: of course society's senses are dulled by horror and violence nowadays but The Exorcist is something different; the devil and the demonic are very real and have a very real affect on people, particularly young people who often cannot cope with their feelings afterwards. We will be there for those people.

Hathaway even wrote to his local cinema in Salisbury asking it not to show the film but said that his request was ignored. It's going to be shown - there's nothing we can do about that but I will be placing adverts in the local paper warning people not to see the film and offering help to viewers who are disturbed by what they feel.

Labour MSP  said about the idea of a topless barber shop: I'm glad to see the back of Bongheads but I'm outraged to see a sleazy attempt to exploit the drugs culture replaced by an attempt to exploit women.

Labour Trade and Industry Secretary only to happy to join the blame bandwagon against Manhunt, a computer game caught up in the aftermath of  the trial of a teenage murderer: As a mother myself I share her (Mrs Pakeerah’s) anxiety about the violent computer games that too many teenagers are exposed to. We all need to do more — manufacturers, retailers, parents and schools — to protect our young people from immersing themselves in images of extreme violence.”

Chairman of Westminster’s Planning and Licensing Committee

These explicit videos are extremely dangerous, with evidence that hard-core material of this kind can lead to sex crimes. We are determined to close down the unlicensed premises and so stem the flow of income to those who sell them.

I agree that it can lead to crimes... Abuse of Human Rights, Corruption and Intolerance. Trouble is, it is the likes of Westminster Council that become the criminals, not the viewers.

MP & chairman of the Lords and Commons Family and Child Protection Group, said: People will be asklng themselves why we bother with censorship if they let through this type of stuff (Romance). It just sounds like pure pornography. I'm very worried about the insidious and coarsening effect this sort of material is having on society - and ultimately, reguardless of it's '18' certificate, children will see the film 'Small wonder that 12-year-old girls become pregnant when films like this are openly available.

Chairman of the Broadcasting Standards Commission, the monitoring taste & decency on TV.

Particularly noteworthy for statements suggesting that sex is only acceptable if you pay for it.

Labour Culture Minister

Laid into rap music, violent videos and Violent computer games: I look at some of the video games my kids play, I look at some of the movies they and their friends think are wonderful and I see no humanity there at all, nothing that tries to highlight, and underpin, the finer virtues that are in people and in society.

Labour Child Protection Minister

From www.mediaguardian.co.uk

Beverley Hughes: minister of the unspeakable

Name: Beverley Hughes
Age: 51
Current job: child protection minister
Next job: editor of the Daily Mail
not to be confused with: Tessa Jowell, Mary Whitehouse

Banana skin: Ms Hughes went out in front of the nation's TV cameras and radio microphones all guns blazing to denounce the Brass Eye special on the media and society's treatment of paedophilia. She called the programme "unspeakably sick". Her comments fuelled fears that the government was acting as "state censor". Unfortunately, Ms Hughes had to admit, when asked, that she hadn't actually watched the show.

Result 1: Ms Hughes's comments fuelled fears that the government wanted to act as "state censor" and was meddling in regulatory affairs. Tessa Jowell was forced to backtrack in an attempt to allay aforementioned fears.

Result 2: Ms Hughes rocketed from home office obscurity to the pages of every national newspaper overnight.

The Sun's leader said: The reaction to the programme could not have been scripted better by the show's creators. Home office junior minister Beverley Hughes deserves a severe reprimand for going on BBC Radio 4's influential Today programme to attack a show she hadn't even seen.

Outcome: A spectacular own goal which perfectly encapsulated the point Brass Eye's Chris Morris was trying to make.

As soon as he was promoted to the LibDems role of Home Affairs spokesman he took up the soundbite bollox of Howard, Straw, Widdecombe etc

On the subject of porn liberalisation for 16 year olds he said there was a clear link between pornography and violence that had to be addressed. In a typical holier than thou attitude he continued:  It is clearly the case that people's behaviour doesn't settle until they are in their 20s and therefore we would not want to leap speedily.

BBC news reader who feels that the Secrets strip club brings down the tone of his west London neighbourhood. He has been siding with the equally shameful Hammersmith & Fulham Council to try and get the club shut down. He is joined in his mean minded crusade by local MP Iain Coleman

He remarked when Secrets opened: What sort of people will it attract? The dirty mac brigade? Yuppies? I don't want my area defiled by that bunch of prats. (I am afraid that Hammersmith already suffers from some obnoxious residents, the customers for Secrets can only enhance the area).

Government Minister in the Lords pushing through one of the most repressive censorship laws proposed for the UK for a long time. The Dangerous Pictures Act will see people locked up for 3 years merely for viewing pictures of staged violent porn.

A coalition of Christian and Muslim fundamentalists who campaign to get video stores not to stock Crash. The group, which includes Yusuf Islam, the former singer Cat Stevens, believes it can call on the support of up to 105,000 members across both faiths who will boycott any store that puts Crash on its shelves. The film should have been banned from the start, the coalition believes, because of its perverse depiction of human sexuality woven into the violent imagery of road carnage. See also Chris Demetriou

Scottish Executive Minister for Injustice put her name to a repressive measure to criminalise the possession of violent pornography (even when consensual and staged)

The measure was introduced with the statement that it was to limit extreme pornography. By extreme” we mean material which is violent and abusive, featuring activities which are illegal in themselves and where, in some cases, participants may have been the victims of criminal offences. BUT... reading further into the paper they will in fact criminalise those owning videos with consensual staged violence as in many horror films with a sexy theme. Just because real violence may be a little hard for the persecutors to prove.

Daily Mail film critic always on hand to campaign for the banning of just about anything.

After the Arkansas massacre he re-iterated a stock article blaming all society ills on sex and violence in the media. he concluded; I myself would like the presentation of extreme violence for its own sake on TV to be made a criminal offence. I would also support a revision of obscenity laws to discourage editors from printing explicit details of sexuality in newspapers and magazines which children are likely to read. It may be that Daily Mail readers have other ideas. (An admission of being extreme even in the eyes of Daily Mail readers?)

He has recently been found to have been cheating on his wife for 12 twelve years. As one of the most outspoken censorial writers for the Daily Mail I had to laugh, particularly as he had described his own sin of sexual promiscuity (prior to being caught of course) as crying to heaven for vengeance. Being of a Christian bent he liked to be punished for his sins, his lover stated that Paul loved to be spanked and it was a big feature of our relationship. I had to tell him he was a very naughty boy.

Now the really alarming thing is that Tony Blair has been using Johnson as an adviser on family values and Christian ethics. We have no chance of civilised regulation if our leaders have been seriously listening to the tripe that the Daily Mail pedals.

It was also interesting to note that that story was unearthed some months ago by Murdoch's New of the World but they decided to sit on it perhaps because they too wanted a good relationship with Blair and didn't want to embarrass him. In fact it was thanks to the Daily Express that the story finally got revealed.

Police (ACPO) spokesman on sexual crime

He said on the subject of criminalising the possession of violent pornography  (including consensual and staged material): We are not trying to criminalise more people, BUT... we are trying to reduce the supply and demand.

I am sure that all those innocent people that will be banged up will agree that it is better to be merely decreasing supply and demand rather than being locked up as a criminal

Islington Councillor commenting on a lap dancing proposal in 2007

Not so Liberal Dem councillor Stefan Kasprzyk accepted that pole dancing was perfectly legal, ...BUT... added: I just fear this sort of establishment might give out the wrong signals. For example, what sort of individuals will this sort of club encourage?

He accepted that the Tavern had the reputation for being one of the best-run venues in the borough. It has a nightclub where there is very little trouble, he said: And I have every sympathy with the Tavern needing to bring in customers and compete in the world of 24-hour licensing...BUT...perhaps, they need to think again about this proposal.

Labour ex minister who frequently write pro-censorship articles. A recent column for the Mail On Sunday advocates fines for 'filth' on the BBC.

Brighton MP for Labour. One of the main campaigners for the one of the most repressive censorship laws proposed for the UK for a long time. The Dangerous Pictures Act will see people locked up for 3 years merely for viewing pictures of staged violent porn.

Campaigner for the one of the most repressive censorship laws proposed for the UK for a long time. The Dangerous Pictures Act will see people locked up for 3 years merely for viewing pictures of staged violent porn.

She feels that a law imprisoning otherwise innocent people just for viewing staged sexual violence is a fitting legacy for the death of her daughter

Mid Worcestershire MP whinging about  Jerry Springer, The Opera: I do not believe in censorship, and I will defend robustly the right of a theatre to put on a play that some find offensive.  BUT to show it on television where there is a danger children could see it is irresponsible. 

Labour Home Office minister said that it was wrong to regard those involved in prostitution as sex workers. She said tough measures were needed to tackle the markets for prostitution. I'm not tolerant of the view that prostitution is the oldest profession in the world and there's nothing we can do to reduce it. Prostitution blights communities. We will take a zero tolerance approach to kerb crawling. Men who choose to use prostitutes are indirectly supporting drug dealers and abusers. The power to confiscate driving licences already exists. We want the police to use that power more.

Previously in her career she was the chairperson of Liberty. This must make for a classic: I believe in Liberty BUT...not for sex workers

I don't think most men who use prostitutes think of themselves as child abusers, but they are, she told The Observer. It could change things if we changed the view of prostitution from "it's the oldest profession" to "this is the most common form of child abuse".

Conservative Shadow Culture Secretary.

Joined a Daily Mail bandwagon to publish BBFC examiners names accused of a lack of transparency over the decision to award War of the Worlds a 12A certificate. She clearly has not done any research whatsoever. In reality the BBFC are happy to discuss their decisions in detail with anyone interested enough to enquire.

Scottish Culture Minister who supports the ludicrously unproportionate penalty of losing a driving licence for the non crime of kerb crawling.

Ulster Unionist Councillor in Belfast refused licenses to sex shops saying that they would have led to the setting up of virtually a red light district in the area. The areas of Gresham Street and North Queen Street in the city centre were designated as unsuitable for such shops, as people lived nearby and children could use neighbouring stores. (This is the weakest effort I have ever heard to cover up a gross abuse of power).

Labour Broadcasting Minister Andrew at the Department of Censorship, Media and Shite.

He has proved himself to be a human rights abuser by banning the satellite channel Extasi TV without justifying his reasons or even explaining anything about why he considered the channel to be worthy of censorship and a ban.

Glasgow council's licensing applications sub-committee convener, said the decision to reject a sex shop licence application was in the best interests of its citizens. He said: This was not a hard decision to make. We have always said that the appropriate number of these kind of shops for Glasgow is zero.

Labour MP, chairman of the all-party committee investigating domestic violence

Spoke out against the selling of softcore mags in tube station newsagents. I'm not against people reading these magazines, and I'm not calling for censorship, I accept that they are readily available in most newsagents. But why should fare-paying customers have to put up with them when they travel on the Tube? (A classic and shameful: I don't believe in censorship...but...)

Independent St Edmundsbury borough councillor said about a sex shop licence awarded to a man with a 9 year old conviction: I am not trying to stamp out sex in the town, BUT we should support the local constabulary and the fact my colleagues have overridden them is absolutely disgusting.

Conserative MP for Hemel Hempstead

Joined a Daily Mail bandwagon to publish BBFC examiners names accused of a lack of transparency over the decision to award War of the Worlds a 12A certificate. She clearly has not done any research whatsoever. In reality the BBFC are happy to discuss their decisions in detail with anyone interested enough to enquire.

Television broadcaster who said:

Pornography has no joy, no art. It deliberately excludes tenderness, and objectifies women. It is blatantly manipulative, designed to produce the most primitive of responses. There is a myth that making pornography is harmless fun. Maybe some women are tough enough to take part without being scarred by the experience, but many are badly hurt. It’s not just coincidence that most women I have met who were involved with pornography were abused as children, as a result their bodies were no longer their own private property; their personal boundaries had already been transgressed. Some had reached the point where they loathed their own bodies and wanted to punish themselves. There is no way these women enjoyed the experience of making pornography, or regarded it as ‘fun’.

As Minister for Industry she announced that the Government is keeping an open mind on the possible need for future regulation of the Internet BUT it is keen to encourage further progress of the removal of illegal and harmful/offensive material.

She has also been instrumental in the Labour idea to extend the IWF to cover the remit of of libel and copyright issues.

Always willing to support nutter causes she commented on a local club applying to introduce nude table dancing. Roche said: I have spoken to lots of residents in the sheltered housing accommodation next door to the club, and everyone there is absolutely against it. I don't think it will be a nice place for women to walk past at night. I think it would make people feel less secure. Also, the club is right opposite the Civic Centre - what kind of advert is that for the borough?

Reading MP for Labour. One of the main campaigners for the one of the most repressive censorship laws proposed for the UK for a long time. The Dangerous Pictures Act will see people locked up for 3 years merely for viewing pictures of staged violent porn.

Nutter Conservative MP (South-West Bedfordshire) tried to incite the Government to sack the BBC over the broadcast of Jerry Springer the Opera: What account she [Estelle Morris] will take of standards of public decency in programmes screened by the BBC as part of her decision on whether to renew the BBC charter

Labour Ex-Cabinet Minister

Famously campaigned against topless pictures in newspapers and in particular against the Sun's Page 3 girls.

However she proved that she has a decent side by coming out against Tony Blair's unjust and unjustified war against Iraq.

A particularly hypocritical entry into the Hall of Shame. On one hand he rightfully expects tolerance for those that enjoy the minority sexual preference of being gay but on the other, he refuses to tolerate the minority sexual preference of those that like to watch porn.

As minister for Culture, Media and Sport he issued a proscription order on the satellite porn channel Eurotica/Rendez-Vous. Heroically the channel are fighting this in the High Court and may even take the decision through the European Courts.

He later compounded his brand of New Labour Socialism by also moving against another satellite porn channel Eros TV

Ironically, he has previously received the 1989 Freedom of Information Campaign Award.

Labour member of the Scottish Parliament  led calls for an inquiry into the "big business" of pornography: I think that since studies do exist showing the harmful effects they should signal to us the precautionary principle and they should be doing further research into it. I don't think we can ignore it any longer.

Has made an immediate impact by using his jackboots to stamp down hard on James Ferman's modest attempts to liberalise the guidelines for sex videos. This relaxation was a practical attempt to try and find a compromise between what the punter wants and what the law allows. Failure to find such a compromise is creating a very strong black market in completely uncensored material but Jack only seems to care about winning the vote of Daily Mail readers.

Straw has further wound up the BBFC by imposing his choice of president (the Home Secretary was given the power to do this in Video recordings Act of 1984). He selected Andreas Whittam Smith who believes that nothing of higher rating than PG should be allowed in the home.

A consensus of opinion appears to suggest that Jack Straw had the last word in the debate with James Ferman by giving Ferman the push. David Alton best summarises this; I feel the hand of Jack Straw at work. He believes sex and violence in films should be reduced. Ferman would never go along with that. I suspect the only people who will regret Mr Ferman's decision to retire will be the makers of violent films.

"The purpose of the Home Office is: to build a safe, just and tolerant society in which the rights and responsibilities of individuals, families and communities are properly balanced. (I presume this means that society must be tolerant of appalling censorship and shall accept zero rights for the individual, none for the family and even less for the community. Fairs fair).

On the subject of the internet he has declared that his intention that it cannot exist in an anarchistic free speech environment

In 2008 he became Injustice Minister pushing through one of the most repressive censorship laws proposed for the UK for a long time. The Dangerous Pictures Act will see people locked up for 3 years merely for viewing pictures of staged violent porn.

Labour MP for Edgbaston in Birmingham who is proposing extreme measures to deal with kerb crawling.

She said: A man who can afford a car and to pay a prostitute for sex can afford the fine. Cash penalties are no deterrent. Losing their car will be a major deterrent. It could mean that the man loses his job.

She says she is opposed to the "naming and shaming" policy: We saw from the case of the former Director of Public Prosecutions, Alan Green, who was caught kerb-crawling that innocent members of the family suffer. He lost his job, his career was ruined. But his wife killed herself. (But these are exactly the sort of consequences that she is envisaging will happen as a result of her measure)

Daily Mail film critic and a true Buthead; Freedom of artistic expression is a great good, but not the only good - or the only freedom. None of the great defenders of free speech in the past 300 years would have imagined that in the 20th century their arguments would be used to enable the spread of paedophilia and child pornography (Neither would they imagine that their arguments would be used to enable such repressive rags as the Daily Mail but hey! shit happens)

When the Daily Mail lost their campaign to get Crash banned they turned their attention to the individual censors at the BBFC and particularly James Ferman. Tookey chipped in with articles under the headlines Does anything appall this man? and Time to sack this feeble censor.

He was the subject of a an episode of the Channel 4 series about critics; Critical Condition. He was shown to be the critical equivalent of an ambulance chaser cruising the festival circuit in search of a sniff of controversially that would appeal to the Daily Mail.

Gave a predictably bollox statement regarding the legal action against a Shoreditch strip pub. Thani Ulaga-Nathan said Children walk past these premises everyday. Other ordinary members of the public would be offended if unwittingly or otherwise confronted with striptease acts. (Why is that intolerant campaigners for a miserable life try to justify their nastiness by so unconvincingly bringing children into the equation. The height of offense to a child passing by was a blackboard with the words "erotic dancers" on. Children simply aren't allowed in the pub to see anything else).

  Thanks to James, May 2008: Not Possible

It should be clearly stated there in my opinion that it is not possible to see inside a 'strip pub' from the outside because of the boarding or non see through windows which are in place. This is fact and applies to all people, not just children.

Labour MP for Leicester East. Nutter mentality furnishes him with little vocabulary beyond "ban it". 

He asked Commons leader Geoff Hoon: Do you share my concern at the decision of Rockstar to publish a new game called Bully in which players use their on-screen persona to kick and punch other schoolchildren? Will you ask the prime minister to refer this video to the British Board of Film Classification? If they don't make any changes will the government use its powers to ban this video?

Evening Standard film critic who declared that Crash contained some of the most perverted acts of sexual deviance I have ever seen in mainstream cinema. A tad exaggerated maybe?

SNP SMP for Glasgow on the cross-party group on violence against women and children. She said she was "disgusted" by the plans ato open a topless barber shop and vowed to picket the shop: I am appalled by this shop, it's degrading to women and is part of this laddish culture treating women as playthings. This objectifying is one reason why violence against women is going up. I and other campaigners will picket the shop every day to shame men who go there.

Later speaking about the conclusions of a task force set up by the Scottish Executive she said: I welcome the steps that this group has taken. Anything that helps stops the sex industry, I am in favour of. But what they also need to do is change the law, so lap-dancing clubs are licensed as sex shops. It would give councils the power to refuse licences and not allow clubs to open in the first place. That's the crunch issue.

A former Conservative Home Office minister and long-standing opponent of screen violence quoted; I feel strongly about the feebleness of the censorship in this country. Promised to take David Alton's amendment to the Crime and Disorder Bill to the Commons if the Lords had accepted it.

Also known for targeting a family planning clinic that gave advice to youngsters under the age of consent as it undermines the role of parents. I have always made it clear that saying No is what we should be teaching young people. Unrealistic or what?

On the subject of the explicit mainstream film Nine Songs: It seems to me that the British Board of Film Classification has thwarted the will of Parliament and disregarded its own guidelines. It is not the board's role to allow pornography to enter the mainstream. This is something that David Blunkett should take a look at.

Currently collaborating with David Alton to table an amendment to the Crime & Disorder Bill to enable certain organisations to appeal against BBFC decisions. Of course this amendment ensures a one-sided right of appeal by only allowing appeals on grounds that the video work might incite viewers to antisocial behaviour, crime or disorder.

She also led the Lords in their overturning of the large democratic majority in favour of lowering the homosexual age of consent to 16.