Loved The Show As A Child And

The Clear Problem Of The Outlawing Of Insult Is That Too Many Things Can Be Interpreted As Such. Criticism, Ridicule, Sarcasm, Merely Stating An Alternative Point Of View To The Orthodoxy, Can Be Interpreted As Insult.

I'm Not A Collector. I Don't Like The Toy Cupboard Syndrome That Causes So Many Good Cars To Evaporate.

I Have Always Believed That There Should Be No Subject About Which One Cannot Make Jokes, Religion Included. Clearly, One Is Always Constricted By Contemporary Mores And Trends Because, After All, What One Seeks Above All Is An Appreciative Audience.

What Directors Of Television Drama Constantly Tell You Is 'don't Act It. Don't Try. Don't Emphasise That Word'. Whereas With Someone Like Blackadder, Even Though He's A Relatively Low Key Character In A Way, He Did Relish The Lines That He Had And The Words That He Was Given, With A Lot Of Inflection.

To Criticize A Person For Their Race Is Manifestly Irrational And Ridiculous, But To Criticize Their Religion, That Is A Right. That Is A Freedom. The Freedom To Criticize Ideas, Any Ideas - Even If They Are Sincerely Held Beliefs - Is One Of The Fundamental Freedoms Of Society. A Law Which Attempts To Say You Can Criticize And Ridicule Ideas As Long As They Are Not Religious Ideas Is A Very Peculiar Law Indeed.