Those who read this page last week would be forgiven for thinking I'd been converted into a namby-pamby apologist for the politically correct.
This was a production issue brought on by a combination of jetlag and airline refreshments, and meant a story on the Advertising Standards Authority's decision over a
Nissan advert ran instead of my actual opinion on it.
The authority said that showing a pregnant couple timing their runs to hospital "glamourised speeding". I don't know about you, but it doesn't make me want to try to set lap records around Starship. Seeing how long it takes to get to hospital is a strange scenario for an ad for a go-fast model of a hatchback, when a new SUV is a more likely purchase for expectant couples than a turbocharged hatch - but that's hardly relevant.
It did, according to the wisdom of Team ASA, breach the Code for Advertising Vehicles and wasn't "prepared with a due sense of social responsibility".
The ad supposedly "clearly depicted a time trial scenario which was consistent with glorifying speeding and therefore encouraged unsafe driving practices". Sorry, but that's simply bollocks.
