The very purpose of Page 3 is clearly to ‘humiliate, chasten and bully women’.

Last week The Sun, in its infinite wisdom, published a picture of a topless woman on its page 3 after widespread rumours that it had ‘quietly’ abolished the sexist tradition.

It is impossible, as Sarah Ditum pointed out in the New Statesman, to tell whether the repalcement of a topless young women with bikini-clad women for one day was a deliberate PR stunt to spread the rumours that the topless images were no longer to be run before ‘returning’ the feature, or just a clumsy two fingers up at the campaigners who rejoiced at the topless image’s demise.