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UK Libel Rules: Change The Goddam Law

Posted at 6:35AM Monday 06 Sep 2010

One of the most confounding experiences a British visitor might have in the US is getting seriously sick without health insurance. I believe a comparable experience – a mauling, a looking glass inversion of reality, a collapse of civilised norms – for an American in Britain is a libel reading.

Michael Wolff in The Guardian

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