Thanks to the BBC’s open and transparent attitude to editing, the page to which Rob links now tells the story of how the enlightened Council lifted the ban, which had no doubt been imposed in error, with no indication that it ever said anything otherwise.

What? You think Winston Smith doesn’t need a job?

1. Stay on-topic.

2. My one word review of Prometheus: excellent

Are we going to get a Samizdata review of Prometheus, is at as poor as everyone is saying?

Personally never thought the Alien films were that great anyway.

There were 982 comments on the blog posting itself when I first looked about an hour ago. Just now there were 1193. I’m betting that very few said stop it you naughty little girl.

Instapundit should be told about this. He loves stories about bloggers being banned or harassed or generally mucked about, and the speed with which the banners, harassers and muckers about regret it.

This must be the fastest Striesand effect ever. Perhaps blogs do make a difference; though this was an MSM story too.

The majority of comments underneath now look like swivel-eyed “right-wingers” jumping to conclusions about “PC gone mad”. Job done.

Of course, given that these children are sent to school compulsorily, this adds to the piss-poor nature of this situation.

They are saying that negative press coverage caused distress to staff, so one might imagine that staff complained. But the girl’s dad says that the staff and the school were supportive.

Had anyone actually complained?