Monday 12 October 2009

Guardian Gagged from Reporting Parliament


guardian
.co.uk


The Guardian has been prevented from reporting parliamentary proceedings on legal grounds which appear to call into question privileges regarding free speech established under the 1688 Bill of Rights.

The Guardian is also forbidden from telling its readers why the paper is prevented - for the first time in its memory - from reporting parliament.

Read the whole article here.

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

Time for an uprising, I'll just sit down again untill I think what form it should take. While I'm getting my brain cells organised, the Guardian should publish, the public will come to their rescue I'm sure.

subrosa said...

I'm sure the public will. I've just noticed Guido has done a post with some details which could be relevant:

http://order-order.com/2009/10/12/guardian-gagged-from-reporting-parliament/

Have a look at that Lorenzo.

Conan the Librarian™ said...

Outrageous subrosa. Private Eye was so right about these self-serving pieces of ordure.

Anonymous said...

This really is, as my granny would say, the tin lid.

I thought we had freedom of the press in here. Well clearly uinder Gordon Brown we do not.

Yeah, publish Guardian, we'll have a whip round for the fine.

Anonymous said...

http://gerrymccan-abuseofpower-humanrights.blogspot.com/2009/10/carter-ruck-and-super-injunctions.html

subrosa said...

Indeed they were Conan, Lorenzo's put an interesting link too.

Thanks Lorenzo.

subrosa said...

More curtailing of general freedoms Tris, will it never end...

banned said...

Stupid Govt. bringing attention to a subject that would probably have just slithered away and got the Guardian offside at a time when they have few friends left.

Anonymous said...

They talked (Mps) of being more transparent, ha ha ha what rubbish..

subrosa said...

Yoohoo Spook. I believe the ban has been lifted now. Been out of the loop for a couple of days but someone read it to me yesterday I think it was.

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