The PCC's brave ruling over Jan Moir and Stephen Gately | Jonathan Heawood
With its intellectually coherent and courageous decision, the PCC has bitten hard on a trend towards glamorising "offence"So many people have called the Press Complaints Commission toothless that it has almost become part of its brand: the TPCC. Today's ruling on the Jan Moir column about Stephen Gately's death will undoubtedly fuel calls for its abolition. Yet this ruling, in which the PCC argues that freedom of expression must come before the distaste and even distress that Moir has caused, is...
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