{"id":328,"date":"2007-03-04T11:22:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-04T17:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=328"},"modified":"2007-03-04T11:22:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-04T17:22:00","slug":"cash-for-honours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/03\/cash-for-honours\/","title":{"rendered":"Cash for honours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">T<\/span>he injunction against the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">BBC<\/span> has inspired all kinds of <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/search\/cash+for+honours\" target=\"_blank\">fevered speculation<\/a>. This is the point where I sadly admit to not particularly caring about the story.<\/p>\n<p>Sure it&#8217;s a good Westminster yarn. Certainly it would have been a nice coup for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/blogs\/nickrobinson\/2007\/03\/strict_limits.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Nick Robinson<\/span><\/a>. But why exactly did the Attorney-General slap an injunction on the Beeb? As renowned conspiracy theorist <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Sir Menzies Campbell<\/span> put it on <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/6414113.stm\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Newsnight<\/span><\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I think what one might be able to infer from the fact that he felt it necessary to seek this injunction is that he at least contemplates the possibility that a prosecution of some kind will follow.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bingo. Read that back: <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">he at least contemplates the possibility that a prosecution of some kind will follow<\/span>. That&#8217;s about the size of it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The injunction against the BBC has inspired all kinds of fevered speculation. This is the point where I sadly admit to not particularly caring about the story. Sure it&#8217;s a good Westminster yarn. Certainly it would have been a nice coup for Nick Robinson. But why exactly did the Attorney-General slap an injunction on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}