‘Unless you see it, you can’t believe how bad it is’: the peer demanding a minister for porn

We've got into a mess with extreme content because nobody wants to talk about pornography, says Gabby Bertin

When the Conservative peer Gabby Bertin arrived for a meeting with the the science and technology secretary, Peter Kyle, earlier this year she startled him by laying out an array of pornographic images across his desk.

They were screengrabs showing little girls, their hair in bunches, and massive, grown men grabbing little girls' throats," she says. She had selected images which appeared to depict child abuse, and yet were easily and legally available on a popular website.