Strongly Worded Letter: Censorship, Lawfare and the British Art of Shutting You Up

Somewhere in Britain this morning, a journalist opened an email and stopped being a journalist for a while.It was nine pages, exquisitely polite, from a firm whose reception smells of orchids. It threatened nothing. Her story wasn't killed — it was paused for legal review. That was some time ago. It is still paused.Nobody burns books here. We find that vulgar. The letter does the work instead, and...