From The Guardian today:
A man has been charged over comments made during a proclamation ceremony for the king.
Thames Valley police said on Friday that Symon Hill, 45, of Oxford, had been charged with using threatening or abusive words, or disorderly behaviour.
It relates to comments allegedly made during the event at Carfax Tower, Oxford, on 11 September.
Two weird things: First, they refer to comments “allegedly made”, but Mr Hill has himself written to publicly avow his statements.
Second, despite the fact that The Guardian finds the indictment newsworthy, nowhere in this reporting do they bother to inform the readers what he said. His “threatening or abusive words” were “who elected him?” The Guardian is very concerned with its own freedom of opinion, but when reporting on a person clearly being criminally prosecuted for his political expression they are too timid to even report what opinions he was expressing.
Shameful.
Common Infirmities 