Bloggers, papers foil British govt gag order

Earlier today, I blogged about how the British government slapped a gag order on the Guardian.

But, at least one political blog ran full details about what the government was trying to suppress. And, although technically illegal, so did one large mainstream paper, the Spectator.

That said, contra BoraZ on Twitter, I wouldn’t ascribe all the reasons for ignoring the gag order to Twitter. Back in the “old” days of “just” e-mail, this likely would have gotten enough publicity for the same result. Maybe even in pre e-mail, “just” telephone days.

That said, WHAT was the House of Commons so worried about? Per the Spectator, it was a cover-up of oil pollution in Africa by Trafigura. The Guardian has more.

If the Gordon Brown government hasn’t been tragicomic enough, this is ridiculous.