“A Bit of Nancy Censorship”

Maybe Hanif Kureishi needs his head examined too:

He pauses. “The BBC has cancelled my story out of a rather misplaced feeling for Alan Johnston. He is in a terrible situation. But my feeling is that, as journalists and writers, we support other journalists and writers by speaking freely. He is a hardcore news journalist. He wouldn’t want a bit of nancy censorship to support him.”

What would Alan Johnston want?