Comments on: This Blessed Plot, This Earth, This Realm, This Haven For the Censorious and the Thin-Skinned, This England http://www.popehat.com/2009/06/15/this-blessed-plot-this-earth-this-realm-this-haven-for-the-censorsious-and-the-thin-skinned-this-england/ A Group Complaint about Law, Liberty, and Leisure Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:39:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: June 25 roundup http://www.popehat.com/2009/06/15/this-blessed-plot-this-earth-this-realm-this-haven-for-the-censorsious-and-the-thin-skinned-this-england/comment-page-1/#comment-33549 June 25 roundup Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:04:28 +0000 http://www.popehat.com/?p=4642#comment-33549 [...] law still casting a chill on free speech around the world [Floyd Abrams, Index on Censorship via Ken at Popehat, Kirk [...] [...] law still casting a chill on free speech around the world [Floyd Abrams, Index on Censorship via Ken at Popehat, Kirk [...]

]]> By: Bruce http://www.popehat.com/2009/06/15/this-blessed-plot-this-earth-this-realm-this-haven-for-the-censorsious-and-the-thin-skinned-this-england/comment-page-1/#comment-32600 Bruce Tue, 16 Jun 2009 01:32:51 +0000 http://www.popehat.com/?p=4642#comment-32600 There are some awful, high profile cases of libel. Jeffrey Archer won a libel case on 1987 against the allegations he had sex with a prostitute winning 500k pounds. In 2001 he went to gaol for perjury and perverting the course of justice in that case, spending 4 years in pokey and repaying 1.3M pounds to the Daily Star. All of which would have been avoided if Britain were a bit less Victorian in their views on free speech. Yet another hangover of the class wars that inexplicably continue in that country. There are some awful, high profile cases of libel.

Jeffrey Archer won a libel case on 1987 against the allegations he had sex with a prostitute winning 500k pounds.

In 2001 he went to gaol for perjury and perverting the course of justice in that case, spending 4 years in pokey and repaying 1.3M pounds to the Daily Star.

All of which would have been avoided if Britain were a bit less Victorian in their views on free speech. Yet another hangover of the class wars that inexplicably continue in that country.

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