HemmingGate: To ban or not to ban, that is the question MNHQ

Oh my, I am breathless with excitement after catching up with the thread.

Apparently I have family to attend to (whose idea was that?), but I shall be back

that was when he was enjoying the attention

Insofar as I understand it - which is not very well - to 'defame' someone is to publish information about them which is untrue and which is damaging to their reputation. So I can see how Sally Bercow got into trouble with her tweets.

But what worries me is that rich people use legal proceedings simply as a threat to intimidate. Even if you know what you are saying about them is true and you can prove it, they are still going to drag you through the courts and cause you a lot of emotional stress etc.

I think the Birmingham Mail are a bit pathetic. I thought another journalist here said they wouldn't have published at all unless they were sure. They didn't say anything defamatory as far as I can see. JH has admitted to doing what was alleged. He just doesn't think it is serious.

they have covered him in the past, kittengate being one. But I guess that was a public trial...

Hmm, I may be creating a false memory here, but I'm sure the big boss at TMP in cardiff is a Mr Hemming...

trinity group...mirror...ooh thats a point, nothing in the Mirror!

Who might the shareholders be of that newspaper?

Yes, the road to bad intentions has been carpeted in Hemming's aspersions......

best toast ever Carpe!

I remember the feeling so angry at that post when I first saw it and then having a calming glass of wine and realising that actually he had just done our grassroots attempt at showing the world his true character a MAHOOOSIVE favour.

I've had a look at the archive version of the birmingham mail story and agree that it doesn't say anything different to what the nationals are printing.

He clearly has some influence there somewhere if he has managed to get them to pull it.

Gah i've been pulling my hair out at work today wondering what has been going on!

Good evening all of you.

How busy you have all been!

Still full of admiration.

Carpe You have the right to sue for defamation if they print something that you believe is untrue and casts aspersions upon you or your actions. If I am wrong, maybe one of the legal eagles will correct me?

By "defamation" does he mean that something printed was untrue ? Everything I have seen printed so far has been factual (apart from some sensationalist press mix ups about exactly who was named by Mr Hemming)

he defamed himself, surely ?

if I had acted like this, I would be kicking myself very severely and apologising profusely to all and sundry, going for the dryathon with a vengeance and scouring "situations vacant" in the local rag

Carpe Fair point!

LakeDistrict I really hope I'm wrong, having read more of their posts on other articles, they are a bit of a twat (understatement) who thinks other delightful things like the "true Brits" are an endangered species due to forriners.

I really, really hope he is actually thick enough to try going after the nationals for their 'defamation'. I can't see what they have printed which is any different to the Birmingham Mail.

Yes, thank you Spero , Carpe , all the Italian posters and everyone who is responsible for this hitting the papers

Unless they are actually referring to Dacorum as in the area. Which puts them worryingly close to me!

OMG, no!! I hope not!

"Gosh, it is spelled Decorum!"

Unless they are actually referring to Dacorum as in the area. Which puts them worryingly close to me!

I'd bet a thousand pound that Dacorum on the Telegraph is Ian Joseph Hahaha
Gosh, it is spelled Decorum!! What a bunch of utter ignorants who want to pass off as saviours and intellectuals!!

Spero

and I will say it again - it is the involvement of you and Lake and others who can't be dismissed as 'stooges of the system' that have tipped this into something actually happening.

Thanks although I think that challenging Hemming's reasoning was quite easy, he was even able to say crap about Lord of the Rings, which is a record considering the amount of people who read the books and saw the movies!

I don't think Hemmingate could make it to the papers without you, Carpe and MNHQ

I don't think the Telegraph's merry band of misogynists quite knows what's hit them. I'm surely they normally harrumph away cheering each other on without ever having to deal with dreadful people daring to produce inconvenient things like logical arguments, facts and evidence.

wonder why that is >

Wow he's really taking this seriously

I'm actually surprised how anti-Hemming a lot of the Telegraph comments were

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