Offence: give and take

Nigger by Drek Davis

Two BBC News stories that were originally posted within 25 minutes of each other today:

Race complaint over Dandy reprint

Publishing giant DC Thomson has been criticised after it reprinted a 1939 annual which contained racist references to black people. A reader condemned the inclusion of a comic strip from the original 1939 Dandy annual which included a term deemed unacceptable in modern society."

'Offensive' poster banned on Tube

London Underground (LU) has been accused of censorship after refusing to put up posters for a comedy show. LU said adverts for the show Pride and Prejudice and Niggas by African-American comedian Reginald D Hunter were 'likely to offend'."