Censorship today is quiet: institutions hesitate, teachers are pressured, events disappear.

This year, I was banned from speaking at a primary school about Section 28. In 2025(!)

Eventually I found it a comfort that reality had become worse.

One hopes they have not been using the Sorting Hat.

This has been a big worry, effectively removing many journalists from our environment. You'd have to really want to do this to have any chance of making a go of it, and even then finding the right platform is clearly often a hard process to navigate.

What an appalling sequence of assaults on your psyche.

What a difficult loss. May you both find all the comforts.

Your cohabitants on the list seem quite entertaining company!

Certainly by the late '70s this was the nomenclature in use, Ben.

Unaware of that earlier usage, I had thought the word's arrival in these new structures was indicative of something like Doge meme language.

(From experience as well) Yes, I think we very much need to be getting that right, and making the policy choices to enable it - rather than trying primarily to obviate it.