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Rod Liddle

It's not just Ashya King's parents who the authorities despise

Of course normal people can't be trusted to bring up children. They might be middle-class, or have the wrong views, or smoke

6 September 2014

9:00 AM

6 September 2014

9:00 AM

My first act upon returning from my holiday was to sign the online petition to have the supremely irritating children’s cartoon figure Peppa Pig banned from television. I have always found the creature half-witted, arrogant and sinister, and the tune which accompanies her exploits is both grating and didactic. Further, even allowing for the usual anthropomorphic licence employed by cartoonists, this Peppa does not remotely resemble a proper pig, and her snout is worryingly two-dimensional.

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