Trafigura, Carter-f*cked. Good.

By Matt Wardman • October 13, 2009

The Guardian has been un-injuncted from reporting on the Trafigura case.

Paul Canning did an excellent blow-by-blow analytical account of this story (also on his own site), while Mr Erogenous has more links, and notes that it is time for an update to the Carter-Ruck homepage:

And there is a (perhaps slightly updated) cartoon from Matt Buck via Prodicus:

There are some things that deserve outright, dripping, contempt – attempts by anyone to suppress reporting of Parliamentary proceedings is one of them. Up with that, we will not put.

I hope now our banana republic Defamation Law is coming back onto the blogosphere agenda more universally, bearing in mind the 150 comments on Dave Osler’s “Joanna Kashke” post. About time, too.

Put Defamation Law reform it in the General Elections Prospectuses, boys and girls…

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2 Responses to “Trafigura, Carter-f*cked. Good.”

LauraO
Tue, October 13, 2009 at 4:04 pm | Permalink | Reply

Great news that this can now be reported on. 38 Degrees are currently running a campaign to stop this happening again. Take action now by emailing your MP and asking them to take a stand. Take action now, it only takes 2 mins. Go to:

http://www.38degrees.org.uk/stop-the-gag
Charon QC podcast: the “Guardian gag”
Tue, October 13, 2009 at 6:38 pm | Permalink | Reply

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