The Telegraph moves to censure Nadine Dorries - free speech in the UK not even for MPs !!!!

It seems that free speech and articles are fine as long as they don't impact on the owners of the Daily Telegraph.

Dizzy reports that heavy handed legal attacks have been made on what Nadine has said (H/T to Guido).

The key objective appears to be to prevent her alleged accusations that the owners of the Telegraph have a political agenda beyond public service in they way they have handled the MPs expense and allowance scandal. I have questioned for some time what the Telegraph's agenda really is in comments else where.

I have to say I think this level of legal censorship is breathtaking and quite frankly makes you think that Nadine Dorries has a point. ( You can see a glowing report about UKIP in todays Telegraph ).

In the mean time Nadine's blog can be read at this Google cache.

There is a real stink of hypocrisy and bullying about the Telegraph position.

PS There is also a lesson for UK bloggers about the need to take your blogs outside UK jurisdiction where the law doesn't only favour the rich.

The anti-free speech EU puts its jackboot down

The EU has a thing about blogs, or rather sources of information it doesn't control or isn't able to bribe. The new solution is intimidation, hence UKIPs press officer in the European Parliament is not allowed to blog.

What are they so scared of ?

If you outraged by this then post a blog linking to Mr Towler's post, so it gets the highest google ranking possible.

A summary of the issue is at the EU Referendum blog ( because who knows how long it will be before the jackboots are at Mr Towler's door again demanding the end of free speech and the eleimiation of his blog archives ).