Orange scores low Marx

You could say that Orange has been caught red handed, but use of the word "red" would be particularly inappropriate. It transpires – from an outraged Guardian reader, natch – that the mobile operator has been blocking emails sent to its customers containing the words "Marx", "Marxism" or "Marxist". Not only does that seem a bit political for a phone company, but frankly we don't find that funny around here. After fearless questioning, the company denies any Joe McCarthy-inspired campaign, blaming the block on a previous spam attack which referenced Monkey's favourite bearded socialist. As a result, use of the Marx name was filtered out "prevent our customers' service being damaged". Hmm, OK then, we believe you. Still, at least it means Monkey can re-send his morning batch of emails.