When touching up become haraam

Strange are the ways of the island nation that lies to the west of the North Sea. Not only do its natives commemorate Mother's Day on the fourth Sunday of the Christian observance of Lent (this year falling on March 10) - instead of the second Sunday of May like most countries - but they have gone so woke, that they now seem crazy-conservative. Case in point: Kate Middleton getting flak for touching up her (British) Mother's Day photo with her kids.

The land of setting tabloids like The Sun and shrinking broadsheets took to the photo like cats on a hot tin roof. Their complaint? How dare has whatshisname's missus, who's still part of Britain's most famous Ekta Kapoor-approved family, fiddled with a photo with her children giving the world the impression that she's looking better than she actually may be after her January surgery?! Next, we will have woke artists raving and ranting about the rest of us trying to get our best side, best pose, best look on camera, instead of 'honest' cinema verite-type shots showing warts and nothing else at all. The difference between portraits - whether taken by the mob or monarchy - and candid camera is that, as is wont with human nature, we like looking good in photos. So, a Photoshop here and a filtered app touch there doth not make evil 'manipulation'. Tell that to those honestly barmy lot.