Illness as ‘Deviance’, Work as Glittering Salvation By Gill Thorburn “The one thing I am absolutely unreservedly and implacably opposed to in all of this is a real world test.” – Chris Grayling, Minister of State, Department for Work and Pensions, 2011. An ongoing British government mission of ‘inclusivity’ which has sought to draw into paid employment tho...

I recently received the following fund raiser from the Anti-defamation League: Dear Miller, Just this past week, a Member of Congress was quoted referencing Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels when discussing communication techniques of the Democratic Party. We are truly living in troubled times when politicians feel they can benefit the national discourse with such vitriolic comparisons which insul...

UK websites should have protection from defamation cases if they remove anonymous postings if there is a complaint, MPs and peers says.

For those who care about free expression in the UK, and particularly the reform of our invidious libel laws, this is a crucial week. Today and tomorrow, the UK Supreme Court hears the Times’s attempt to overturn an appeal court ruling in a libel case brought against it by Metropolitan Police officer Gary Flood.   On Wednesday the Joint Committee on the Draft Defamation Bill produce its ...

A couple of links. Angry Mob – Abuse and Defamation Angry Mob receives a Nasty-O-Gram from the lawyers of Associated Newspapers. Ministry of Truth – Daily Mail threatens media blogger with libel action over two year old article Unity casts an over over the blog post in question and the letter sent to the hosting

Former leader of the Scottish Socialist party has been jailed for three years for lying during a defamation action against the News of the World in which he was awarded £200,000

The Libel Reform Campaign today has welcomed Nick Clegg’s outline of the government’s draft bill on defamation. In a speech at the Institute of Government in London, the Deputy Prime Minister revealed that the government will address all the issues raised by the Libel Reform Campaign in its report, Free Speech Is Not For Sale. English libel laws

Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg will vow to publish a draft defamation bill that will provide a new statutory defence for anyone speaking out in the public interest

It’s sad to start the new year on a sour note, but I feel it would be amiss of me not to look at the impending imprisonment of Tommy Sheridan. After the former leader of the Scottish Socialist Party was convicted of perjury when giving evidence during the civil defamation case he brought against the News of the World, much of the UK left proved they are no different to the mainstream when it...

TOMMY Sheridan had been accused of attempting to have Colin Fox, his former fellow MSP, give perjured evidence at the 2006 defamation case in Edinburgh. That charge was droppe