Why I'm cancelling my kids' subscription to The Beano

Earlier this week Bryony Gordon reported on how Dennis the Menace had been given a PC makeover.

But kids aren't stupid. They get it. Witness eight-year-old Jacob Rush, from Ipswich, who noticed that Dennis the Menace now looks more like that sweet little swimmer Tom Daley. He's slimmed down, his hair has softened, he's smiling. He doesn't bully Walter the Softy, who now has a girlfriend, as opposed to that pink poodle Foo Foo. Dennis no longer fires his catapult or his pea-shooter. Gnasher...