Trafigura

	Trafigura: A Carter-Ruck Fuck-Up ... by Martin
Old journalists say that if you speak the word 'Trafigura' three times, a lawyer appears in a cloud of sulphurous smoke; telling you not to write about it. This prophecy has come true for the Guardian, on whom everyone's favourite media lawyers Carter-Ruck have... 8 Comments Read More
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	A Graphical Representation of Irony for Trafigura and the BCA ... by Martin
The first of the graphs below the fold shows traffic to layscience.net for the first 16 days of October, an already high-traffic month thanks to my lovely new band of guest bloggers. It is also a graphical demonstration of the Streisand Effect in action; the... Comments Read More
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On Angry Mobs and Science Activism

Fri, 11/06/2009 - 16:30

There’s been a lot of talk lately about angry mobs. When Jan Moir wrote a viciously homophobic attack on the recently deceased singer Stephen Gately and his grieving friends and family, she was confronted by an angry mob. When ace lawyers Carter-Fuck attempted to gag the Guardian’s reporting of a parliamentary question, the censored information was carried along the information super-highway on virtual placards by an angry mob.

A Graphical Representation of Irony for Trafigura and the BCA

Fri, 10/16/2009 - 13:39

The first of the graphs below the fold shows traffic to layscience.net for the first 16 days of October, an already high-traffic month thanks to my lovely new band of guest bloggers. It is also a graphical demonstration of the Streisand Effect in action; the phenomenon by which attempts to stifle discussion of a subject only encourage more chatter.

Trafigura: A Carter-Ruck Fuck-Up

Tue, 10/13/2009 - 09:05

Old journalists say that if you speak the word 'Trafigura' three times, a lawyer appears in a cloud of sulphurous smoke; telling you not to write about it. This prophecy has come true for the Guardian, on whom everyone's favourite media lawyers Carter-Ruck have placed an unprecedented gagging order which, outrageously, bans them from reporting parliament - a spectacularly undemocratic tactic which as the paper point out calls "into question privileges guaranteeing free speech established under the 1688 Bill of Rights." The threats don't work of course; they never have. Not even in ancient times.