Some censorship is evil. Some is downright silly. Here's a piece of wonderful silliness courtesy of the BBC. I guess Alice inWonderland will also have to be banned in case anyone notices the similarities between it and the actions of some politicians.

This afternoon England play Trinidad and Tobago in the World Cup Football tournament. The major trade union in the publishing world (and in many other worlds), Amicus, has got into trouble for allegedly giving out information on how to 'throw a sickie'. This would allow employees to watch the match while still being paid. A major supermarket chain, Asda, has apparently offered staff two weeks unpaid leave on the grounds that they won't be working anyway. I'm in two minds on all this. On the one hand winning would cheer the country up. But early elimination might well be good for the economy. Losing to T&T would be a national humiliation but the British do have a reputation for enjoying a touch of masochism.

Whatever else the Cup seems to have killed off High Street book sales except that there are three soccer books in the top five non-fiction bestseller list - Gazza, Pele and our very own Match World Cup book.