The right to take and publish photos in public places is under threat from another direction: in the UK, some campaign to criminalize photos of breast-feeding in public.

I sympathize with Ms Creasy's feeling of disgust, but we should not be led into supporting a dangerous law by a feeling alone.

The right to take and publish photos is already threatened on several fronts. Some US states have adopted "ag gag" bills that criminalize publishing pictures of farms' treatment of animals. Some countries, including Spain, criminalize publishing photos of thugs committing acts of violence, under vague and stretchable conditions. And many countries restrict photos that include buildings whose architecture is copyrighted, even in the background.

To combat these threats, we need to insist on a simple and general principle: wherever you have the right to be, you have the right to photograph anything that you can see, and to show the photograph to others.

Those who wish to breast-feed in public and avoid others' looking at or photographing their breasts have an easy way to prevent this: wear (or don at the moment of need) a garment that can be arrayed to block the view. This can achieve the goal more reliably than the proposed law, while not putting anyone's rights in question.