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Trafigura: the BBC settles
You may already know that the BBC has settled with Trafigura in their libel case - that would explain the "disappearance" of the videos of Liz Mackean's original report from the BBC website. The BBC agreed to pay Trafigura £25,000 (which it says it ...
Not by the hair on my chinny-chin-chin …
One of these is a Pirate, the other is a stout defender of a realistic approach to people whom Lord Mandelbrot and friends think are Pirates...One of these is a Pirate, the other is a stout defender of a realistic approach to people whom Lord Mandelb...
Iran: How the Election was Stolen, and the Opposition Crushed
A defecting member of the infamous Basij militia, the men who wounded and killed in the aftermath of the Iran elections in the summer, tells Lindsey Hilsum of Channel 4 News what he knows. A defecting member of the infamous Basij militia, the men who...
Carter-Ruck bully #Trafigura Article off BBC website
(This post is personal, and is specifically not the responsibility of any legal commentators who write for the Wardman Wire). Productivity in the Judicial Get-This-Outrage-Off-The-Internet department is up again. The latest is more Trafigura news, as...
Trafigura all over again
I've written about Trafigura before. Now they're at it again, apparently - it's reported that the BBC has pulled from its website Liz McKean's original report about the dumping of toxic waste in Ivory Coast in 2006. I think there should be an emergen...
Gordon Brown on Opening up Government Data
This is useful Chapter and Verse if you need to "persuade" politicians to come out in support of Open Data. The Prime Minister delivered a speech on Smarter Government, in London on 7 December 2009. The transcript is here. "And I can announce today ...

