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Free Pitchfork And Flaming Torch For EVERY Remaining Reader! The Clumpany

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Good Evening.

The Clumpany isn’t often short of something to say, even if it is inane ramblings [yep, you’d noticed…]. However, yesterday’s developments in the Spiers/ Sevco/ Herald story – which suddenly expanded to include Angela Haggerty – gave me a bad case of ‘Clumper’s block’.

It wasn’t that I didn’t have any views on the matter. I most certainly did! It was just that I had so many thoughts and feelings about the jaw-dropping and frankly bat-sh*t crazy turn of events that I was too annoyed, too despairing, and too joyful (all at the same time) to know how to begin articulating it.

I was annoyed, because in sacking Angela Haggerty (who I don’t know) the Herald Group seemed to be trampling over three fundamental things that help to make our society a decent place in which to live.

Firstly, the Herald appeared to show little regard for free speech – and let’s face it, as far as my non-legal mind can tell, the remarks which got Angela into ‘trouble’ weren’t offensive or defamatory. I also struggle to see how they actually undermined the Herald Group, which really ought to be big enough to deal with one person tweeting an opinion.

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