The Post They Tried To Ban.

This has been written an ready to publish since approx 22:50 on 11/7/11. However it's now 23:07 and the Internet is still refusin to allow me to publish. You've got to feel a bit sorry for the Yanks, they did a deal with the Brits and it just not comming off. Anyway;

I've declared this Monday To be last Thursday.

I hope that won't be a problem for anyone.

On Sunday (10/7/11) I brought the last ever edition of the News of the World (NotW). It came with a 48 page souvenir pull out showing some of their greatest front pages of the last 168 years. These included the one from 11/1/09 where they exposed a video of Prince Harry racially abusing one of his fellow cadets at Sandhurst military academy and the one from 2/5/01 where they caught Prince Edward's wife talking about her husbands apparent homosexuality. It also included the one from 21/11/99 when they exposed Conservative peer Jefferey Lord Archer as having committed perjury and he was sent to prison. However before the NotW was published the Guardian newspaper - showing their usual grasp of reality - were celebrating how the NotW had been forced to close after an Internet campaign after got advertisers to pull out.

So in January 2011 thousands of Egyptian protesters harnessed the power of the Internet to overthrow a government that muzzled the press by shutting down newspapers that were critical of the regime. But in July 2011 hundreds of British protesters helped the government muzzle the press by shutting down a newspaper that was critical of the regime. So clearly not one lesson learnt since Libya then.

Elsewhere today the Greek Cypriot (read British) government exploded a stockpile of Iranian weapons that were being stored in Cyprus after being confiscated on route to Palestine although the Cypriots are trying to use the "It was Israeli sabotage" defence. That is in less of course it really was incredibly well planned Israeli sabotage to make everyone think it was the Cypriots.

Anyway I think the point I'm trying to make is that this stuff will do your head in if you think about it too much. So probably best not to do it on a big square or the global stage. Speaking of which I will be going home to Brighton tomorrow, apparently to teach the town why real men carry umbrellas. But I wouldn't worry too much, it's only a 12 hour pass.