tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34128264.post9097367822576335933..comments2024-03-25T12:55:40.911+00:00Comments on Caron's Musings: Why is Twitter going mad about Trafigura?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04988201531739344840noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34128264.post-22026499926245734712009-10-15T13:41:38.103+01:002009-10-15T13:41:38.103+01:00It goes beyond the issue of questioning environmen...It goes beyond the issue of questioning environmental bad-guys... it's the parlous state of British libel laws which allowed Carter-Ruck to think it could subvert the 1688 Bill of Rights, and has now caused Peter Bottomley to report them to the Law Society.<br /><br />Other examples include Roman Polanski's having been permitted to speak via video-link when taking Vanity Fair to court overallegations he'd chatted-up someone at his wife's funeral. Quite how a self-confessed child-rapist had any reputation to loose, I don't know, but he did and was spared the indignity of coming to London so he could then be arrested pending deportation.<br /><br />The Guardian managed this skillfully, but is receiving less support for another writ from Carter-Ruck over its printing an article referring to existing allegations of war-crimes during the 1971 East Pakistani War against Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin; director of Muslim Spiritual Care Provision in the NHS, who was until recently vice-chairman of the East London Mosque and London Muslim Centre and was involved in setting up the Muslim Council of Britain.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34128264.post-19879155763718373712009-10-13T14:59:01.134+01:002009-10-13T14:59:01.134+01:00To be honest, Laura, I tend to avoid 38 Degrees li...To be honest, Laura, I tend to avoid 38 Degrees like the plague. I rather took against what I saw as a mean spirited and spiteful injunction to harass MPs on their holidays.<br /><br />Thanks for the link, though.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04988201531739344840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34128264.post-83000432711751302272009-10-13T13:13:23.542+01:002009-10-13T13:13:23.542+01:0038 Degrees are currently running a campaign on thi...38 Degrees are currently running a campaign on this. Take action now by emailing your MP and asking them to take a stand. Take action now, it only takes 2 mins. Go to:<br /><br />38degrees.org.uk/stop-the-gaglauraOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17629568459577941456noreply@blogger.com