From this morning's Guardian:
http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,,1808228,00.html
Vanity Fair's arresting look at Blair's Britain
Owen Gibson, media correspondent
Thursday June 29, 2006 The Guardian
Asked to describe a politically subversive magazine,
one might picture a tatty pamphlet rather than Vanity Fair,
the American glossy packed with A-list stars and ads for
luxury brands.
But its London editor, Henry Porter, yesterday angrily
wrote to the Metropolitan police commissioner, Sir Ian Blair,
over an incident in which police appeared to claim that an
article in the magazine constituted "politically motivated
material".
On June 18, a man was arrested in Whitehall under the Serious
and Organised Crime and Police Act, which prevents demonstrations
within a kilometre of parliament.
Steven Jago, who was carrying a placard bearing the George
Orwell quote "In a time of universal deceit telling the truth
is a revolutionary act", was later found by police to be in
possession of several photocopies of Porter's article "Letter
from London: Blair's Big Brother Britain", printed in the latest
issue of the magazine. Mr Jago claims that they were confiscated
by police and he was told the article constituted "politically
motivated material".
[...]
Henry Porter's original Vanity Fair article can be found at
http://www.vanityfair.com/commentary/content/articles/060619roco03
Read it for yourself and judge how dreadfully politically
motivated it is.
Should we RadStatters feel afraid, very afraid ???
Best wishes to all,
Ted.
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