Je Suis Charlatan
This week’s Private Eye cover is spot-on about the hypocrisy of certain political leaders whose professed support free speech in France differs markedly from what goes on in their own country…
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In the Dark 
January 23, 2015 at 1:00 pm
President Hollande was keen to invoke French laws against press freedom when his love life came to attention a year ago, I recall.
January 23, 2015 at 1:08 pm
Many of the people shown in the image have been eulogising about King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, whose regime sentenced Raif Badawi to prison and 1000 lashes for writing a blog. There can be no clearer demonstration of the hypocrisy of politicians.
January 23, 2015 at 11:25 pm
I don’t see why it should be illegal to say that A and B are having it away, if they are. moreover if someone’s wife can’t trust him, how can the electorate?
January 24, 2015 at 7:50 am
I don’t agree. If you want office over people then having your private life made public to them is a reasonable price. As government frequently says to us, if you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to fear. I don’t agree with that argument but it must cut both ways. Moreover, where to draw the line under your system? Tv and newspapers? Blogs? Gossip in bars? You are on a slippery slope.
January 31, 2015 at 11:58 am
that’s the hislop smugness for you