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Hooray for freedom!

Last year a tabloid newspaper reported that a Premier League manager had been caught visiting a brothel, but did not name him or identify the location.
At the time, the newspaper blamed “creeping privacy laws” for preventing it from publishing further details.
It followed a number of cases in which wealthy and famous individuals had successfully used the Human Rights Act to gag the media.
But a landmark ruling by Mr Justice Tugendhat last week swung the pendulum back in favour of freedom of speech, when he revoked an injunction granted to John Terry, the Chelsea and England captain, which had blocked reporting of his extra-marital affair.

Thank goodness for that pendulum swinging back in favour of freedom of speech - otherwise we wouldn't know which football manager it was who visited a brothel. I mean, can you imagine a world in which we weren't allowed to be told about who had done that? You know, someone who'd never said anything about family values, or campaigned on such, and so wasn't a hypocrite, but who just happened to visit a brothel, because he wanted to pay someone to have sex with them? Can you imagine a world in which we weren't allowed to know that?

Isn't it a much more wonderful world in which we can look around us and thank ourselves for the freedom - freedom! - to know who's been to a brothel and who hasn't. Ah, freedom. Free at last! Hooray for the pendulum of freedom!

I imagine the newspapers will use the pendulum of freedom, so wonderfully swinging back in the direction of the righteous and just, in order to expose genuine corruption, point out wrongdoing, and set things to rights. And it won't just be a series of shabby exposes of sex antics of celebrities, will it? I mean, they will use this freedom properly, won't they...?

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