Are we becoming a less censorious society? - a podcast by The Times

Phillip Collins is joined by Hugo Rifkind, Fay Schlesinger and Patrick Kidd.Hugo RIfkind, "For three decades, Max Clifford was the guru of the dirty secret. Looking back today, though, very few of the revelations he brought to tabloids - 'man sleeps with woman' - seem all that interesting. I think we're becoming a less censorious society and, in the process, leaving the people with real dirt, such as Clifford himself, fewer places to hide."Fay Schlesinger, "Across the rich world crime is falling. 70% fewer murders in Estonia over the past 20 years, violent crime down by a third in the US...just 86,000 cars stolen in England last year against 400,000 in 1997. There are myriad explanations, from education to targeting policing and more prison places, but no real satisfactory answer. So are we, as criminologists are starting to conclude, simply a nicer and less macho society."Patrick Kidd, "One of the plum jobs in journalism is up for grabs as the BBC seeks a new presenter of Newsnight to replace that...

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