The results of the Byron Review were published last week, and author Tanya Byron immediately found herself praised by the government, British Board of Film Clas*ification, and much of the UK games industry.

　　But there's always someone who's not happy--and in this case, it's Jenny McCartney from The Daily Telegraph. According to McCartney's piece, titled "There is a majority against vile video games, and it is moral," Byron "seems like a sensible woman," who has "done her best," but she was a bit too "modern" in her approach.

　　She writes, "Yet the truth, surely, is that the majority of us would indeed recoil from the idea that our teenage son or daughter was upstairs playing Manhunt 2, a recently licensed game in which the protagonist, an escaper from an experimental asylum, tortures and murders other players in the most graphic ways." Unlikely, considering that the game in question is a one-player game, but she's not finished...

　　McCartney admits that she hasn't managed to find any evidence that links games to actual real-world violence. "It might well be true," she muses, "as we are so often told that most children who immerse themselves daily in violent video games will not go on to commit real murder. For that, I suppose, we must all be grateful. But the instinctive objective remains, and it is indeed rooted in morality: the sense that it is wrong for anyone, child or adult, to spend long hours electronically rehearsing the prolonged agony and detailed humiliation of other human beings for their own amusement."

　　Further down in the article, she compares the BBFC to a "progressive young uncle," and bemoans the fact that its decision to ban Manhunt 2 was overturned on appeal. She outrages, "The fact, that in America, the makers cut a castration-with-pliers scene for its Wii version gives you some idea of its content."

　　McCartney also thinks that someone should think of the children. She states, "It has an 18 certificate, but it would only require an 18-year-old player with younger siblings to leave it lying around at home for it to be freely available to underage players."