The Home Office has gone all Daily Mail

Yes, I know. I was a bit shocked too.

In today's Telegraph it's reported that the Home Office is to crack down on lapdancing clubs. Quite why this has become a prority wasn't made clear.

After all, apart from Nimbyism, what harm do they do? Their main clientele are men on a boozy night out with friends and the dancers are willing participants, kept safe by enormous bouncers (no pun intended). And with just 300 clubs nationwide it's hardly an endemic problem.

If the clubs were encouraging or attracting street prostitution then I could see the point but there's no evidence that that's the case. Associated crime levels are no better or worse than for any other late night venue.

What will happen instead is the clubs will be driven underground, which will mean no regulation at all and the reality that many of them will become fronts for brothels.

If that happens it'll serve the Nimbys right.