And good on ‘im. The former Conservative Party treasurer said yesterday that he had been “terrified” when he became “a figure of public hatred” because of people naming him as the subject of a Newsnight report wrongly claiming a senior Tory was a paedophile. Sally Bercow, the wife of the Speaker of the Commons, and [...]
Tags: Libel
No. Last week, The Sunday Telegraph launched a campaign to give the owners of squatted houses greater legal powers to regain the quiet enjoyment of their property, rather than stand helplessly by and see it abused and degraded. There is a legal principle that stands higher than the law, however, and that is justice. No, [...]
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Today’s published Commons order papers contain a question to be answered by a minister later this week. The Guardian is prevented from identifying the MP who has asked the question, what the question is, which minister might answer it, or where the question is to be found. The Guardian is also forbidden from telling its [...]
It is my opinion that Johanna Kaschke is “one cherry short of a Schwarzwalderkirschtorte” That is all.
A massive windfall tax on the mega-profits of Shell and BP would be a vote-winner and the right thing to do – make them put something back to help with pensions. Oh, well done. Major owners of BP and Shell shares are pension funds. So taxing the companies will reduce the returns to said pension [...]
Tags: Idiotarians · Libel
George Monbiot on the libel laws. Perhaps you don’t live in England or Wales, so you think this has nothing to do with you. You’re wrong. English libel law now applies to everyone on Earth. Make any accusation, anywhere in the world, and if the subject can demonstrate that a single person in England or [...]
This is one of the problems we have with teaming up with Johnny Foreigner in all of these international organisations: South Africa’s police chief faces a warrant for his arrest as a bitter struggle at the top of the country’s ruling African National Congress threatens to plunge the country into chaos. The warrant against Jackie [...]
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Here is a preliminary transcript of a speech given by Tom Wise last night at about 11 pm. Said speech was given under Parliamentary Privilege and thus may be repeated, without fear of the libel or defamation laws, by any media outlet: When the EU talks of a ‘Common Foreign Policy’ on energy, you [...]
Tags: Libel