We were going to have chicken fajitas tonight. We’d bought the chicken, got the ‘yellow box’ of ‘ingredients’ and I was quite looking forward to it. But for what may seem an arbitrary reason we decided not to have the chicken tonight. We thought instead we would have it tomorrow. Possibly the next day. I thought it was just putting it back some time, or delaying it. But no.
It is much more serious than that.
It’s censorship.

The BBC has postponed the broadcast of a story about western hostages being executed in Iraq as concern grows for missing BBC journalist Alan Johnston.

The author, Hanif Kureishi, criticised the decision as censorship, saying: “It all seems rather arbitrary”.

“It seems to me that as a journalist, he would be against censorship,” he told the Guardian newspaper.

So postponed=censorship. I’m sure the journalist concerned would be against censorship – after all, he was in a war zone – but to equate the delaying of a piece of fiction to the real life dangers of a man and then to pretend it’s “censorship” is ludicrous.

Mr Kuresihi – get a grip and stop being an complete idiot. And apologise.