Very surprised to load Con Home and find I'm the first to comment on this today, but...
As reported by Guido, the Guardian have been stopped from reporting of a Parliamentary Question. A Parliamentary Question!
It is simply extraordinary, and really very wrong, that this has happened. This - the right to discuss what our representatives say and do in Parliament - is the exact, basic, legitimate expectation in a democracy for which people fought for generation after generation. It finally stopped, as Parliament's own website proudly boasts, in 1771. Well, apparently it hasn't stopped after all. It is appalling that the fight needs to be had again, but it certainly needs to be had. We at Big Brother Watch find ourselves (grits teeth, breathes deeply, squares shoulders) firmly on the side of the Guardian.
In an interesting twist, my colleague Dylan (who is "very web 2.0" apparently) tells me that Trafigura, which might or might not be the name of the company that might or might not be involved in said Parliamentary question, is one of the top "trending" topics on Twitter.
UPDATE: Carter Ruck defeated. Hurray. It is still an outrage that this ever happened, but still - good.
