The cult of John Sweeney may be smaller than that of L.Ron Hubbard, but it owes more to diuretics than dianetics. Here’s Sweeney explaining how a school theatrical role as an RSM in Oh What A Lovely War! inspired him to an outburst that had my three-year-old son saying, “That man is frightening me.” (Joan…

Richard Sambrook posts at the End of Journalism, on freedom of speech. (There’s a hat-tip to dear old Simon ‘Cue’ Cumbers, among others.) He ends his piece: …if you doubt whether accurate, impartial, independent journalism can make a difference, you should recognise that some of theforces opposed to it don’t doubt it for a second.…