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Trafigura: Parliamentary Supremacy and Freedom of the Press

Trafigura takes my breath away. I can understand a company reaching a settlement wanting to keep it, and their privileged (Minton) report, private – and I can understand instructing lawyers to get an injunction to try to do so. But what I don’t understand is how the...

Balloon Boy

Once upon a time, there was a hypothetical dad who released a hypothetical helium balloon into the sky. Hypothetical dad rang the hypothetical authorities, claiming his one of his hypothetical sons was onboard and floating away. The hypothetical boy was later found...

Parliament, The Press and Free Speech

I’m not quite sure how, but it appears that The Guardian has been gagged by the court from reporting on Parliament. As The Guardian notes – The right to report parliament was the subject of many struggles in the 18th century, with the MP and journalist...