This week’s Private Eye (that most superior of news and satire sources) contains a lengthy piece on Margate blogger Tony Flaig in its Rotten Boroughs section (as reported on here by fellow Thanutian blogger Eastcliff Richard).

Flaig recently suspended posts on his blog, following what looked, in my opinion, to be heavy-handed legal snarling from Sir Bob Of Geldof’s production company Ten Alps over criticisms of Kent County Council’s KTV service, which Ten Alps makes. Geldof has been an outspoken critic of Margate and even of Kent as a whole, which has made him pretty unpopular in the seaside town and elsewhere.

Flaig was awaiting some confirmation of what he had done to so upset bigwigs at Ten Alps and Kent County Council before he carried on blogging. He recently recieved a letter from KCC, which Private Eye reports as: “an opaque missive from Geoff Wild, Kent CC’s director of law & governance, containing the line: ‘If you continue to choose to exercise your right to free speech in the manner that you do - as is your right - you must expect to take whatever consequences the law provides…’” Hmmm.

Flaig is now back writing on his excellent blog, providing an insightful working class perspective on all matters Kent and Thanet. Long may he continue to do so, hopefully unhindered by legal letters from KCC or Ten Alps. Add his blog to your reader and watch what happens next.