LIBEL
In its Christmas quiz, Private Eye reminds readers that in 2009 the pornographer and newspaper owner Richard Desmond sued the business journalist Tom Bower for saying in passing that he told his editors what they must put in their papers
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This has been a bad week for freedom of expression in Britain but a useful one as well because it's two most serious enemies - money power and religious terror - have been in plain view.
First, the money. The BBC
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More good news from what is turning into a good week for freedom of expression.Simon Singh has been given leave to appeal against Mr Justice Eady's draconian interpretation of his critique of chiropractors. As I explained in the
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October 2009
Britain's arcane and illogical libel laws, litigious oligarchs and oil sheikhs have made it almost impossible to report the truth
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