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Tom Watson, the former deputy leader of the Labour party, has been having a busy lockdown. Signed up to write a political thriller called The House, he and his co-author Imogen Robertson have been rapidly rejigging their novel to reflect a post-Covid world.Their near-future setting now includes a national inquiry about whats stanley cup going on in the background , where characters 鈥?if they meet socially 鈥? choose not to drink out of glasses and they wipe the bottle before they drink , and undergo temperature checks when entering public buildings, which everyone is used to by then , says Watson, who is finding life away from politics as a newly minted thriller author a relief .Watson and Robertson have had to decide: will there be a vaccine, in their vision of the future To be honest, we still havent quite worked out stanley cup whether were going to have one or not, he says. But whatever happens, people are not yet safe in that near future, but theyre kind of over the worst. Its not a dystopian, post-civilisation world 鈥?were in a slightly weird world, where things have changed, but not completely. While there have already stanley cup been numerous announcements of novels purposefully set during the lockdown 鈥?Avon has already snapped up Love in Lockdown, about two neighbours who meet on their balconies, while Hodder Stoughton has acquired Stay Home, in which a married woman breaks lockdown to find her lover murdered in his living room 鈥?many more writers are in Watson and Robertsons boat, making Qauv Charles Handy obituary
Defenders of free expression have long criticised the use of English libel law to stifle investigative journalism. No less worrying than the judges willingness to allow oligarchs and petro-billionaires to impose gagging orders and extraordinary costs on their critics, has been their complicity in the chilling of scientific deba stanley ca te. The courts allowed the NMT medical conglomerate to sue the Shrewsbury physician Peter Wilmshurst for doing his scientific duty and questioning the effectiveness of its heart treatments. Mr Justice Eady denied Simon Singh the defence of fair comment for claiming that there was no evidence that chiropractic alternative treatments for sick children worked.How encouraging, then, to see the Court of Appeal s landmark ruling in the Singh case that scientific controversies must be settled by the methods of science rather than by the methods of litigation . How pleasing to hear modern judges defend free speech by quoting John Milton s denunciation of the silencing of Galileo by the Inquisition.The verdict is a triumph for Singh, who has been willing to sacrifice a small fortune and years of his life in the defence of free inquiry. But his case is not over and nor is the struggle for a country that treats free speech with du stanley cup e respect. Labour and the Conservatives must join the Liberal Democrats in making manifesto commitments to libel reform. They should understand that in the 21st century, millions will be writi stanley cup ng on the internet. Li |
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