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Brendan O’Neill
Roll up, roll up – watch Nigella being strangled!
The Nigella Lawson ‘choking’ incident confirms that respectable observers are as good at being voyeuristic and moralistic as any tabloid hack.
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| Wednesday 22 May 2013 |
Tim Black
Bozza, bonking and the public interest
Why should three men in wigs get to decide whether or not us plebs can read about Boris's sexual shenanigans?
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| Tuesday 12 March 2013 |
Tim Black
Huhne v Pryce: the politics of dirty linen
This sordid affair exposes how insular, self-important and allergic to the ideal of privacy the modern political class is.
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| Thursday 31 January 2013 |
Brendan O’Neill
Do we live in a ‘pornified’ world?
Yes, there’s an increasingly ugly culture of sexualisation, but the government campaign against it will get us nowhere.
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| Monday 18 June 2012 |
Patrick Hayes
Privacy for me, but not for thee
Why do we complain about Lib-Con plans to police emails but not their plans to interfere in ‘chaotic families’?
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| Tuesday 27 September 2011 |
Patrick Hayes
Who’s responsible for Govegate?
‘Government by Gmail’ is the logical end result of the rise and rise of the weird cult of transparency.
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| Tuesday 16 August 2011 |
Tim Black
Attacking press freedom in the name of privacy
Having made private conduct central to politics, it’s a bit rich for MPs now to slate the press for being obsessed with private peccadilloes.
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| Monday 11 July 2011 |
Frank Furedi
‘We name and shame the evil tabloid hacks!’
The cultural elite’s crusade against News International is only a more erudite version of the News of the World’s war on perverts.
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| Monday 11 July 2011 |
Wendy Kaminer
Press culture is none of Cameron’s business
An American free-speech campaigner dissects the ‘delusional elitism’ of those wanting to muzzle the tabloids.
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| Monday 11 July 2011 |
Tim Black
The myth of the feral tabloid reader
Why the political class loves to peddle stories about the tabloids’ evil grip on the masses’ minds.
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| Friday 8 July 2011 |
Brendan O’Neill
After the News of the World, who’s safe?
The unprecedented harrying to extinction of a tabloid newspaper is likely to have a chilling effect across the British media.
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| Thursday 7 July 2011 |
Brendan O’Neill
What’s really motoring this anti-Murdoch crusade?
What the News of the World is alleged to have done is terrible and indefensible. But the fury about it is being driven by something else.
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| Wednesday 29 June 2011 |
Tim Black
Free speech vs privacy? There’s only one winner
Recent coverage of celebrities’ sexual antics has been puerile, but it should not be judges who decide what we read.
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| Wednesday 8 June 2011 |
Patrick Hayes
Is this just ‘ID cards without the cards’?
The Lib-Cons' proposal for an Identity Assurance Service confirms that privacy counts for little in the corridors of power.
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| Thursday 19 May 2011 |
Mick Hume
L’affaire DSK: French right to private lives on trial
That one French statesman has been charged with sexual assault is no reason to attack the civilised distinction between public and private affairs.
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| Wednesday 11 May 2011 |
Tessa Mayes
Post-Mosley, free speech is still the loser
Who needs the ECHR to censor what we talk about when we’ve got our own injunction-happy High Court doing it anyway?
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| Tuesday 10 May 2011 |
Tim Black
The superinjunction only intensifies the gossip game
Yes, society’s obsession with people’s private peccadilloes and antics is a problem – but it won’t be fixed through illiberal injunctions.
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| Wednesday 27 April 2011 |
Tim Black
On the wrong track over iPhone privacy
Campaigners should worry less about gadgets recording our locations and more about why society doesn't value privacy.
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| Tuesday 25 January 2011 |
Tim Black
Sometimes, journalists should be outside the law
The liberal media’s anti-Andy Coulson campaign is further empowering the state at the expense of press freedom.
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| Thursday 20 January 2011 |
Rob Lyons
Steve Jobs’ sickness is none of our business
Just because someone is in the public eye, that doesn’t mean we get to know everything about their private lives.
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