Banned!

Little grey men prowl Ihe curridors of parliment. and stand at ease in the pubile galleries.

In the galleries you cannat stand, talk, lean forward, or read, and they are there to prevent it.

During the passage of the News Media Act, a Salient staffer was sitting in the public gallery.

In front of him a Government M.P. lay flat on his back across two seats, an Edgar Walbicc novel clutched to his chest, chatting to a passing M.P.

The Salient staffer began to read. Inevitably, a little grey man approached.

"You can't read that In here," he said firmly. "That" was in fact a copy of the News Media Ownership Bill!