Category Archives: censorship

In a police state as exemplified by the former South Africa, North Korea and even Cuba, which still has “difficult” journalists in jail for the last eight years, some facts cannot be discussed openly without permission of the authorities. Exactly what is now happening in the UK.

Marr's sick-making bar

So well done to everyone working behind the scenes to shame jug-eared hypocrite Andrew Marr, who is handed more than £600,000 of licence-payers’ cash each year, into admitting he paid for a super-injunction to bar reporting of his own inability to control his trouser zip. The drip-drip online campaign was superb.

As long as neanderthals with no interest in openness like the flawed Mr Justice Eady, a seriously out-of-touch judge, are allowed to rule on cases involving the rich with the morals of  alleycats and who buy official secrecy to hide their wrongdoings, they cannot rest. We cannot rest.

This has been the case for several years. What will be banned next? The stakes are so high they are the stuff of nightmares. Our windbag politicians only make empty promises to fix the broken system. They do nothing. They’re in the same clubs as the worst of the worst.

Let’s be clear; anyone who uses their wealth to get fancy lawyers to put the case for a super-injunction is doing something that is not available to the rest of us. They are hiding something grim. We are entitled to see them as liars and cheats and to treat them as such.

Marr says he is “embarrassed”. Funny how the Great Inquisitor only got queasy when the full details of his bare-faced deception were put on a certain website by people far more committed to unearthing the truth than himself.

Facts are facts. It is the internet, so often derided by those who care little for freedom of expression and want us all to toe their line, that will ultimately protect the victims – whether of brutality by Middle East dictators, abuse in the corridors of power in Washington and Pyongyang or deeply-damaging decisions by the pox-ridden unaccountable half-wits who preside in British courts only because of the schools they went to.