Just returned from Spain where lawyers are agog with an order imposed to prevent the distribution of the satirical magazine El Jueves on the basis that it offended the honour of the Spanish royal family.

The issue in question had a front page which carried a lurid cartoon depicting the Prince of Asturias, the heir to the throne, making love to his wife. The cartoon was to mark the coming in to force of a law to provide a maintenance grant €2,500 for every child. The cartoon had the Prince saying: “This is the most work I will do in my life.”