SINCLAIR USER COMES UNSTUCK (December 17th, 1988).

Spectrum games mag Sinclair User found  itself  in trouble with the TV
show Watchdog and a Tory  MP  both  ticking  it  off for making a joky
reference to glue sniffing. The show  even rang Sir Clive Sinclair but
not surprisingly he denied all knowledge of the publication.
       The  mag  had  run  a   competition  for  Airfix-style  models.
Contained in the copy was the  offending  line  "just think of all the
glue fumes you've got an excuse to inhale".
       Although the gag caused something of an uproar, SU says it only
received  four  complaints.  "it  just   happened   that  one  of  the
complainants wrote to everyone else,"  commented editor Graham Taylor.
"In magazine terms, we put our foot  in our mouth. Watchdog treated it
as 'look at those foolish people' story rather than branding us devils
from hell," he said. "But we sincerely apologise and we're printing an
apology in the  next  issue".  But  Conservative  MP  Kenneth Hind was
infuriated by the comment calling it "a disgrace".
       Asked  at  whether  he  was  surprised  at  the  uproar  Taylor
commented "the furore is over now and we're putting it behind us. What
with Roy Orbison dying and Gorby  cutting  his armaments the story has
slipped into obscurity".