Month: July 2011
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No satire or ridicule please – this is parliament
I had not previously been aware that the rules of parliamentary broadcasting preclude “satire and ridicule”. Annabel Crabb raises the issue at the ABC, and reports that many politicians themselves are unaware of this. First, prohibiting ridicule does seem a little redundant. One may well decree that there shalt be no ridicule, but it’s meaningless when…
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More Monckton hyperbole
Fresh from pontificating on the principles at stake in allowing Lord Christopher Monckton to receive the support of a university in his inane ramblings, I find myself unable to let go of the subject. My comment on an article by Anson Cameron at The Drum didn’t apparently make it has now past moderation [1]I’m very…