{"id":5077,"date":"2009-10-13T11:57:57","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T09:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=5077"},"modified":"2009-10-13T11:57:57","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T09:57:57","slug":"the-man-who-invented-the-london-libel-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/10\/13\/the-man-who-invented-the-london-libel-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"The man who invented the London libel industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefirstpost.co.uk\/54640,people,news,peter-carter-ruck-the-man-who-invented-the-libel-industry?DCMP=NLC-daily\">The man who invented the London libel industry | People in the News | People | The First Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A profile of Peter Carter Ruck (or as Private Eye would call him Pater Carter - no better not go there).<\/p>\n<p>This is the man who did more than most  destroy free speech in this country.<\/p>\n<p>He's dead. He can't sue. Which is why someone said of him (posthumously):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He did for freedom of speech what the Boston Strangler did for door-to-door salesmen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>His firm carries on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/10\/13\/when-libel-lawyers-stop-the-reporting-of-parliament-then-its-time-for-libel-laws-to-be-changed\/\" target=\"_blank\">war against freedom<\/a> to this day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The man who invented the London libel industry | People in the News | People | The First Post. A profile of Peter Carter Ruck<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/10\/13\/the-man-who-invented-the-london-libel-industry\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}