Response to Gary Glitter's four-month sentence for possessing obscene material The National

Response to Gary Glitter's four-month sentence for possessing obscene material The National Post CanadaAT LEAST three Canadian hockey teams have announced they will no longer play Gary Glitter Rock and Roll, Part Two at home games Now, we oppose child porn as much as anyone But banning Glitter's anthem from hockey games is overkill Glitter may have some disturbing and illegal habits. But, unless we are missing something, he does not advocate them in Rock and Roll, Part Two. And where does this precedent lead? What would happen if networks made programming judgments on the basis of how child TV actors behaved in their adult lives. Viewers would be denied reruns of many shows.Daily MailUKGARY GLITTER wept as he went to prison He wept for himself He wept because he'd been found out. He wept, no doubt, because he knows his career is totally over.

He didn't weep out of guilt or shame or for the tragic, degraded children. He downloaded images of children being forced to indulge in oral sex, children being beaten, children being sexually molested He created his own vile bestial pornographic library It's the kind of perversion most of us can't comprehend.. British verdicts on the way the Labour Party has handled shortlisting candidates for the London Mayoralty Evening Standard THE MAYORAL saga thus far has been a political shambles for both major parties. Labour has now taken belated action to save its London party from outright ridicule and shame. Blair's high-profile assault is risky, and could well backfire.

The battle for the Labour nomination now promises to be ruthless, bitter, exciting and embarrassing to the party. We have campaigned fiercely for Mr Livingstone to be allowed to stand. But we share Mr Blair's view that it is strongly in the interests of every Londoner that he should not become Mayor.The Daily TelegraphTHE DEEPER significance of the Livingstone phenomenon, though, is its impact on the Prime Minister's prestige His machine can function only for as long as it is feared. One of the few figures in the Parliamentary Labour Party who owes nothing to Mr Blair has thrown down a challenge to his entire project Mr Blair has picked up Mr Livingstone's gauntlet. The prize is the office of London's first elected mayor, Labour's hold on the capital and the mystique of Blairite invincibility.