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Just how free is freedom of expression?
Freedom of expression is one of those things that we kind of just assume we have in western societies but in reality there are generally limits to it. For example, the issue of Madeline McCann is freely spoken about in Portugal yet in the UK a range ...
Just who is “the media” these days? Legally it DOES include bloggers or at least those based in the UK
There’s been an ongoing debate for a number of years now as to whether or not bloggers are the same as journalists some of the time, all of the time, or never but thanks to moves from an unexpected quarter that debate is starting to become a mo...
Do labels really change how you see your status?
Frankly I figured that the relabelling of “unemployment offices” in the UK some years ago as “job centres” as just a PR gimmic by the government but it would appear that there’s a little more behind it than I’d th...
