Clean-cut sports star plays away shock horror probe

So who's the clean-cut married sports start who managed to convince a judge
that details of his extra-marital activities should be protected by the full
force of the law (http://tinyurl.com/judge-eady)?

 

That's a mental image I could *really* have done without; you ****.

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Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Bear

You think the government should pass laws just so you can get an extra
frisson as you tup a burd up the wrong 'un?

You *sick* mofo.

 

You're far too kind.

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It wasn't that sort of an 'ahem'.

<guffaw>

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I don't care. The fact that plenty of other people do is irrelevant

As this same judge said in the recent Mosley case "Not everything the
public is interested in is in the public interest".
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Champ

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To email me, neal at my domain should work.

 

Really? Crikey, you move quick. Well done.
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Champ

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Jeremy Heywood?

 

LTSNTSSWYGTC

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Y'know, I'm slightly worried that I managed to work that out with
almost no effort at all.
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My advice as your attorney is to buy a motorcycle
To email me, neal at my domain should work.

 

Thank you!

Someone *always* has to ruin the moment.

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And rightly so.

Btw, where's the videos of you wheelying the chair? I used to have
minutes of fun doing that in a mate's mum's (MS) once I'd managed to
get the bitch out of it.

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<appalling admission>

I haven't worked out how to do it yet.
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Champ

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My advice as your attorney is to buy a motorcycle
To email me, neal at my domain should work.

 

<shocked>

It's really incredibly easy. Stoppies otoh...

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and what a great quote that is.

 

Agreed, but the trouble is that the boundaries get blurred.

Classic case: Profumo. In that case he was bonking a girl who was also
being bonked by a Russian spy. I'd suggest that that was an issue of
national security.

And look at "legislation creep" (A term I've just adapted from the
military expression "mission creep", with which I'm sure you're
familiar). Consider how so-called anti-terrorist laws have been used to
check how people are loading their dustbins, ffs, and then consider how
similar privacy legislation would be (mis)used.

I agree that the tabloids' grubbing around in people's lives is nasty
(but then, it's fed by the equally nasty cult of celebrity and the
popular obsession with it) but IMHO, freedom of speech etc is one of
those things that, once you start restricting it, you are unlikely ever
to get it back.

 

I agree. I just think - no, am absolutely certain - that a privacy law
will be abused. Badly.

There I'd agree. OTOH, Frog Presidents manage to get immunity from
prosecution for anything they've done during their tenure, and I find
that appalling. It's Third World African stuff. Couple that with a
privacy law, and you swing too far the other way, IMHO.

 

Because someone will pull strings. Because someone will intimate that
there's a security aspect to the story, and that it's in the national
interest not to publish it. Because someone will have a friend
somewhere. Because someone will exert undue pressure.

The question you ought to ask is: "Who decides whether a story should be
made public?" and work from there.

Sorry if that's a pessimistic outlook, but I'm deeply pessimistic about
the erosion of personal liberty these days. It's one of the few things I
feel really strongly about.

 

The trouble is I don't think you can start trying to define terms like
"national interest" and "gutter press" in legislation. You have to
allow the courts to judge each case on its merits. I reckon the
present system ain't broke and doesn't need fixing, and iin particular
we don't need any more laws.

Depending on how you define "national interest" I read them every day.

 

Loads.

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Parkinson....