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On Internet Anonymity and Snake Oil Salesmen.

June 11, 2011
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Over 100 years ago, the Rev. LaFayette Moore, a Baptist minister, gave up parish work and entered the business world with a pill cutter and gelatin coating machine. He rented one room over a carpenter shop. Money was short, and he obtained much of his raw materials on credit from Miller’s drug store in New [...]

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Twats Twittering T’Will Extend Privilege?

January 20, 2011

Standing head and shoulders above the privileges enjoyed by our MPs, is the legal immunity against defamation relating to statements made within the grounds of the Palace of Westminster.  It allows them to speak freely without fear of legal action on the grounds of slander, contempt of court or breaching the Official Secrets Act. Yesterday [...]

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Libel reform campaign petition

November 11, 2010

From Jack of Kent comes news that a petition is being drawn up to reform the libel laws. English libel laws are some of the most unfair in the world. Unfair to writers and bloggers who are unable to freely express their opinions or to publish critical articles due to the fact that 90% of [...]

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The Danger of Following The Sun.

November 18, 2009

The blogging world is essentially diamagnetic to the iron fist of controlling legislation.  We scattered like whirling dervishes to our keyboards to denounce Baroness Buscombe’s suggestion that the PCC might encompass the blogging world in its efforts to do the Government’s thinking and control all dissenting voices. ‘Never!’ we cried, ‘Prise our cold dead hands [...]

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The indignity of this forced marriage.

June 16, 2009
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On Sunday, whilst the world was consumed with the Moto GP duel, Geert Wilders was giving a remarkable speech to the Danish Free Press Society concerning the battle between two ideologies.  It is a long speech, and may well take up fifteen minutes of your day to read it, but I would earnestly entreat you [...]

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Do not ask for whom the bell tolls…….

April 6, 2009

It tolls for thee, yeoman of the land of Magna Carta. Whilst you slumbered last night, and in the many months before, the sinister shape of Directive 2006/24/EC crept into your lives and stole your freedom and your privacy. Would it have made any difference if this burglar had worn a striped jumper and carried [...]

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