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Even foul-mouthed chavs have a right to privacy
Of the many shamelessly self-promoting food processors currently crawling all over British television screens, Gordon Ramsay is the least appealing. That he should allegedly have ended up with one of Jeffrey “Pinocchio” Archer’s cast-offs is about what he deserves, especially one who’s so cheap she’s happily sold her story and posed for the country’s most pernicious Shag Rag.
But even foul-mouthed, culinary bullies are entitled to privacy – however many more alleged lovers the Screws may try to haul from his cupboard.
Muck-raker Dacre decries the right to personal privacy.
When Max Mosley sued the News of the World for invasion of privacy last July, and won, Paul Dacre’s paper launched a vicious personal attack against Mr Justice Eady, the High Court judge who made the ruling. He ordered his hacks to write pages of frothy-mouthed vindictive in which the judge’s personal life was attacked from every angle. It was disturbing to witness a full-grown man behaving like a small child who thought someone was trying to take away his favourite toy. (see my blog post: “Why are the Mail backing the Screws?” July 27th.)
The papers for which Dacre is responsible, the Mail and the Mail on Sunday rival the News of the World in their lust for the blood of wounded celebrities. The Mail on Sunday in particular, under the specious guise of Guardian of the Moral Values of Middle England, loves to get down and dirty among the private traumas of the rich and famous.
Cameron Diaz and Jennifer Lopez sought justice in Britain
The Independent’s Legal Forum has commented on what it describes as a “LIBEL TOURIST INVASION.”
The use of “Invasion”, in a way that is uncharacteristic of the Indie, gives an indication of the paper’s position as it sets out to describe how a number of American celebrities – Cameron Diaz, Britney Spears, Jennifer Lopez, among others – who have been subjects of defamatory stories in the American press have found it more effective to sue these publications in Belfast or London, on the grounds that UK editions are available, or the information can be seen by British readers on the papers’ websites.
Why are the Mail backing the Screws?
Paul Dacre’s conference on Thursday, once the Max Mosley v News of the World judgment had been handed down, must have been as rambunctious as they come. He ordered an all-out 5-page, sixteen gun broadside against the judge in the case, Mr Justice Eady and all he stood for. The judge is to be the victim of a campaign that will see him intimidated and harried until he loses the urge to make judgments that don’t match the thinking of the Nation’s greatest middle-England organ, and the thoughts of Chairman Dacre.
Star scribbler, witty, biting Quentin Letts was told to lead the attack.
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