Trafigura drops bid to gag Guardian over MP’s question

Why is our press being prevented from reporting the proceedings of our elected representatives?

Listen! Hear that? That soft noise, brushing at the edge of your consciousness? That is the sound of footsteps. Just one pair in a billion [...]

Democracy works best when people are activists. When passionate people take part in active debate and, yes even protest. The freedom to do so is fundamental to the democratic principle.

Democracy I say, with a big D, not the emasculated turn up and vote once every half decade watered down lukewarm syrup little-d democracy we have been lulled into.

I’m going to have to stop listening to Radio 4′s Today programme in the mornings. My commute is punctuated with rants at the car radio that must startle fellow travellers on the M6 motorway.