I’m pleased Buckingham Palace is going for the Photographer as well as the magazine. This is nothing to do with a right to publish. It is everything to do with a couple on holiday with a friend having the right to privacy. Perhaps the real answer is to get the name and address of the…
Further to my post below, there was a statement in the Lords yesterday (or an urgent PQ repeated from the Commons to be precise). http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201011/ldhansrd/text/110523-0002.htm#11052325000213 A joint committee made up of six members of the Commons and six from the Lords is to look into the state of the law following the recent publicity. A number of…
I think I am going to do some hard thinking about the growing problems relating to privacy. In the past I have resisted a law on privacy because of the way it limits investigative journalism but that is less likely now that we have the counter balance of freedom of speech enshrined in the European Convention. The…
I have just bought Tony Blair’s memoirs, tempted by the offer at half price, and glad to know that the British Legion will benefit, although presumably by that much less, given that the book seems to be selling for half price nearly everywhere! I have not yet read them, but the controversy surrounding the memoirs…
Protecting individual privacy is, to my mind, fundamental to a free society. Without privacy and the opportunity to have personal possessions, the state is all powerful. Too often, we allow the public sphere to expand, eroding personal privacy and hence freedom. There is a balance to be drawn between the public and private, between the…
