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LIBEL LAWS: DANGEROUS ENEMIES OF FREE SPEECH

FREEDOM of speech has long been a vital component of our society. When it is threatened, we have fought fiercely to protect it – as we did, successfully, in recent proposed religious hatred laws. Yet a creeping erosion has begun to take place, a blurring of definition between proof of fact and valid opinion.

Patrick O'Flynn

IN THE mid-Nineties, after Gordon Brown had been beaten to the Labour leadership by Tony Blair, he was often to be found, licking his wounds and nursing his grievances, in the penthouse apartment of Geoffrey Robinson, a fellow Labour MP who had made a fortune in business.

John Dillon

HE GOT up off the bench two minutes from the end and darted quickly, without word or gesture, into the tunnel to watch the conclusion of the match out of sight.

David Robson

PROBABLY the best-known fact about Margaret Thatcher is that she only had four hours' sleep a night. I don't know if that made her the person she was but maybe it did. Recently I've taken to sleeping only four hours a night and I am now totally convinced we should send a task force to the Falklands, though not having a navy to call on I feel at something of a loss.

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Criminal irresponsibility

TO allow a climate of lawlessness and vandalism to take hold in a neighbourhood is unforgivable. If people cannot be confident that they are safe in and around their own homes then a basic foundation of civilised life is missing.

Vanessa Feltz

IS ANYONE surprised that the insatiable Carla Bruni is rumoured to have found sexual sustenance outside the Elysee Palace? She’s the woman who famously remarked: “Monogamy bores me.”

Can you all just calm down and stop yelling?

	Good on the Queen for telling Berlusconi to PIPE DOWN!

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Mick Dennis

THE preening Portuguese is back, so let me tell you about three incidents for you to make an educated judgment about Jose Mario dos Santos Felix Mourinho.

Dr Rosemary Leonard

Q I have glaucoma and also have cataracts in both eyes. I have been told that cataract surgery for patients with glaucoma is often not successful. I read in the Daily Express of a new treatment for cataracts called Stellaris. Could this treatment help me and how would I get it?

Martin Townsend

THERE are some things in life that just make your heart sink. The prospect of another five years of Gordon Brown, for instance – that’s a major heart-sinker.

Jimmy Young

ANYONE who enjoys driving will not enjoy being told that they must give up their car keys, not only because they lose the pleasure of driving but also because they lose the mobility that makes life easier in so many ways. For all motorists that day eventually arrives but who is best placed to decide when that time has come? Can we trust drivers, or should his or her GP or ophthalmologist decide for them?

Adam Helliker

PRINCE William has now made the choice where he wants to spend the next couple of years working as a search and rescue pilot.

Adam Helliker

WITH a baby due in the next two months and two other kiddywinkles to raise, Claudia Schiffer might want to have a word in the ear of her hubby, film-maker Matthew Vaughn, about the sort of child role models he’s putting on screen.

Adam Helliker

SHORTLY after Sir Ben Kingsley received his knighthood I reported that there was chatter in showbusiness circles about the actor’s pomposity in insisting on his title being used at all times. Nonsense, retorted the great actor, who said it was a “great accolade” and that everyone was just so happy for him to receive such recognition.

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