I don't know! \u00a0You leave the country for a few days to bask in UNESCO's world heritage beneficence, and when you return you find Parliament proposing to overthrow hundreds of years of hard-won press freedoms. \u00a0Not only that, but blogs are to be regulated as well as the organs of the Lord Coppers of this world. \u00a0Section 4.1.b.ii of the draft Royal Charter says that relevant publishers include:<\/p>\n
\"a website containing news-related material (whether or not related to a newspaper or magazine)\".<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Even Mum'snet is worried! \u00a0One measure of whether a press is free is whether politicians are wary of it \u2013 and of blogs (not mine, of course). \u00a0In totalitarian countries all this works the other way round. \u00a0We seem to have travelled a long way in a short time, and not in a good direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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