Just wait till you see Guido’s…
Seeing a passing bandwagon, attention craving Jemima Khan decided to delve deep into her family’s wealth to help bail out Julian Assange. Explaining her decision she wrote:
“I believe that this is about censorship and intimidation… On the one hand, the US is proud of its First Amendment and its long-standing commitment to the freedom of speech…On the other hand, it is examining ways to take legal action against Assange, who is in effect editor of the world’s first stateless (non-profit) media organisation… WikiLeaks offers a new type of investigative journalism… I feel passionately that democracy needs a strong and free media.”
A noble sentiment perhaps, but Khan hasn’t always put her money where her mouth now is, in fact quite the opposite. She seems to have suffered slight amnesia forgetting the time when she wasn’t such an advocate for free speech. The Goldsmith consiglieres, with the aid of Carter Ruck, flipped a switch when their super-injunction gagging order was leaked to, wait for it… Wikileaks:
WIKILEAKS PRESS RELEASE / EDITORIAL
December 24, 2008December the 15th saw a secret UK court hearing, with secret participants, produce a secret order to secretly gag the population, the terms of which are secret and the revelation of which is punishable by up to 10 years of imprisonment. How many of these orders exist is unknowable—we glimpse at the severity of the problem only when the orders are violated. So let’s start violating them.
Wikileaks previously released the gag order for the Northern Rock bank collapse, now we release the secret gag order made by High Court Justice Tugendhat on Dec 15, 2008 aimed at covering up an email leak from the British establishment. The secret order first targeted UK newspapers, but our copy was destined for the UK Parliamentary blogger ‘Guido Fawkes’, editor of ‘order-order.com‘. The summary states:
- The identities of the Applicants/Claimants must remain confidential.
- The fact of the existence of the Orders must remain confidential.
- The terms of the Orders must remain confidential.
The order concerns emails from Zac Goldsmith, a noted 2005 Conservative party recruit, and social climber sibling Jemima Khan. Both are heirs to the late billionaire financier Sir James Goldsmith. Needless to say there are no teachers, small business owners or technicians being granted secret media gag orders in the UK.
The order states that anyone who knows of the order must obey it, so plaintiff lawyers Carter Ruck have served the order on media outlets across the British Isles.
Britain is an increasingly dangerous Western disgrace, but you won’t hear about it in the British press.
Oh the irony, needless to say Guido told them to get stuffed…
Sir Terry Wogan sees the light:
“I think the problem with the BBC frankly is that its got too big and unwieldy and there are too many people employed to keep this big machine going and it might be better if there was a bit of slimming down… It seems as if it is the British Building Corporation.”
All change in the Murdoch empire this morning as Guido learns that Sophy Ridge, the News of the World’s blonde bombshell, is to join Sky New’s political team as a replacement for Niall Paterson. Kay Burley better watch her back.
Her appointment will certainly make rolling news a little easier on the eye…
As Ed Miliband goes to campaign in Oldham, Labour HQ must be having some trouble working out who to send to campaign in the local elections in Wolverhampton. Something tells Guido that Labour’s deputy leader won’t be going to stump for this candidate:
Better send Jack Dromey instead…
Tony Blair told Bill Clinton…
“…if we become the parties of big deficit spending, the public thinks in today’s world, we’re taxpayers, we’re going to pay for that.”
