My verdict on Britain’s libel laws
Read spiked editor Mick Hume's Notebook in The Times (London).
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‘The verdict is expected today in the Tommy Sheridan defamation trial, in which the MSP and former leader of the Scottish Socialist Party is suing the News of the World over allegations of extramarital sex, orgies and swinging parties. But the verdict on Britain’s libel laws should have been clear long ago….’
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