It responded to the bland banalities of official censorship and disinformation with a determined cheerfulness under extraordinary pressures.

Despite official censorship prompted by its references to sealed wagons and tattoos, the song too was a hit.

Football, with its partisanship and essential controversy, would not benefit from a situation in which many of the juiciest talking points are swept under a carpet of official censorship.

The diary was not produced for external consumption, nor subject to official censorship, nor influenced by later knowledge or hindsight.

For many years, the press had been expected to practice self-censorship, but this increasingly gave way to official censorship.