Will be familiar to gentlemen of a certain age. The freeview was the ultimate branlette de danger

I had occasion to peruse the upper bounds of the Sky channel guide earlier this week and noticed that many of these channels still survive. In these days of pornographic abundance, one wonders who actually pays for these services now? Putting to one side the unnecessary risk of seeing one of these stations appear on your sky bill, it seems like the height of self indulgence to pay 20 quid a month or whatever for some softcore grot.

I note that those silly telephone channels are also still going. A load of very bored, haggard old lassies waving the telephone at the screen. Again, a curious business model