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IN THE NEWS
Stuart Thomas gives us his regular round-up of the way the newspapers have covered the world of transport this week.
Ah, freedom of speech. A wonderful foundation on which to build a decent, civiiised society. And The Voice of Freedom sounds exactly like the sort of organ that would uphold such an important virtue.
But, what's this? Police have seized the entire print run of this month's edition of the newspaper as it arrived at Dover port on a truck from Slovakia.
What fascist, jack-booted gadflies are trampling all over this country's libertarianism?
Oh, hang on a minute. The Voice of Freedom is, in fact, a newspaper put together by fascist, jack-booted gadflies —the British National Party, no less!
Kent Police are now investigating to see whether any public order offences have been committed, such as incitement to racial hatred.
This has led to the sort of predictable, insipid bleating from the BNP that Its freedom of speech has been challenged — something that will gladden the hearts of all those who can manage to distinguish their arses from their Goebbels.
BNP spokesman Dr Phil Edwards told the BBC: "What [the police] are doing is trying to look for something wrong when they don't know there is anything wrong."
A heinous crime, as that is surely stepping on the toes of the BNP itself, which provides this service on behalf of the rest of us, whether we like it or not.
You might also wonder why a political party that promises to put the great back into Great Britain and stand up for the rights of all British folk was shipping off jobs and money to a factory in Slovakia...