Last but not least: Venus kicked out of the subway

Because it is too provocative for commuters, a 500-year-old painting is causing a stir in London. To be more precise: a poster of the painting. It shows the nude Venus by the German painter Lucas Cranach the Elder, painted around 1530. The London Underground refuses to show the poster. The transport company responsible fears that it could disturb passengers. The corpus delicti comes from the renowned British Royal Academy Museum, which will be showing the original painting in a special exhibition from March 8. However, the museum's reputation is of no use in the fight against the stubbornness of the "Tube": The poster violates the rules on "depicting men, women or children in a sexual manner", the tube operators announced. The museum should reconsider its advertising.
John Whittingdale, chairman of the parliamentary culture committee, considers this decision to be "utterly moronic", as he said on Wednesday evening. "There is no way that this classic painting could be a nuisance," he said. Even if this resistance to nonsensical advertising bans is laudable: I'm sure some people are secretly pleased that the transport company's decision has allowed the good old cliché of the prudish Brit to slip out of the moth box once again.
Image: Royalacademy.org.uk