Free speech RIP

Cicero will not post this week.

Instead he has released the following statement for us all to ponder and consider:

''In light of recent developments at Sky Sports this week and lest I too publish something that offends some -ism or other, I have decided not to post this week until the fuss has moved on.

'The impact of such po faced nonsense on free speech and freedom of expression in this country should concern us all and we seem to have lost sight of the dictum that while 'I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.' Voltaire must be spinning in his grave.

'Let he who is without sin, cast the first stone''