tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4009067879087757296.post8245693646914380956..comments2024-03-29T07:16:44.130+00:00Comments on Eight Miles Higher: Dave Lee Travis & Radio One in the 1970'sAndrew Darlingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07964525874288660998noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4009067879087757296.post-53590960241158583332017-02-20T22:53:35.865+00:002017-02-20T22:53:35.865+00:00FreedomPop is the #1 100% FREE mobile communicatio...<b><a href="http://mobile-plans.syntaxlinks.com/r/FreedomPop" rel="nofollow">FreedomPop</a></b> is the #1 <b>100% FREE</b> mobile communications provider.<br /><br />With voice, text & data plans costing you £0.00/month.Bloggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07287821785570247118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4009067879087757296.post-75236476555859492792015-10-17T11:01:49.939+01:002015-10-17T11:01:49.939+01:00From Michael Yates: Hello Andrew! In your review o...From Michael Yates: Hello Andrew! In your review of David Huxley’s Nasty Tales, you make passing reference to the comics crackdown of the fifties (“questions in the House and the subsequent imposition of the Comics Code”). Have you read Martin Barker’s A Haunt of Fears (Pluto Press, 1984), where he goes into vivid detail about the banning of “horror comics” in Britain around 1955? I’d always thought the campaign was run by the Usual Suspects – clergymen, Tory MPs, killjoy teachers – and was shocked to discover that it started with the British Communist Party. The CPGB were apparently held in such contempt by the general public that they could only campaign through proxies; and their original target – American war comics – got lost in the chain of Chinese whispers. I thought that, if you’d not read Barker’s book, you’d be as amazed as I was and suitably amused; it probably chimes with your sense of humour since I saw you described your politics as “Groucho Marxist”. Yours, MickMichael Yatesnoreply@blogger.com