From: roger@hayter.org
On 24 Aug 2025 at 16:23:50 BST, "JNugent" wrote:
> On 24/08/2025 02:59 PM, GB wrote:
>
>> On 24/08/2025 13:47, Jon Ribbens wrote:
>>> On 2025-08-24, Jethro_uk wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 24 Aug 2025 12:48:23 +0100, JNugent wrote:
>>>>> On 23/08/2025 11:11 PM, Alistair Tyrrell wrote:
>>
>>>>>> [quoted text muted]
>>
>>>>> What crime would she be committing?
>>
>>>>> When did it become a crime (in Ebgland and Wales, if not the whole UK)
>>>>> to express one's opinion?
>>
>>>> When you are still serving your sentence for committing a criminal
>>>> offence.
>>
>>>> At a guess ?
>>
>>>> You'll be upset she can't just hop on a plane, next.
>>>
>>> It's unhelpful that you snipped the text JNugent was responding to.
>>> Alistair suggested she would be profiting from a crime. JNugent wrongly
>>> thought this implied she would be committing a new crime. Alistair was
>>> saying (correctly) that she is profiting from the crime she originally
>>> committed that she has already been to prison for.
>>
>> Didn't Jeffrey Archer write about his time in jail, and make a lot of
>> money out of it? Nothing wrong with that, apparently.
>
> I'm sure he isn't the only one. Dennis McShane springs immediately to mind.
>>
>> GIYF, but here's the gov.uk site on licence conditions:
>>
>> https://www.gov.uk/government/news/licence-conditions-and-how
the-parole-board-use-them
There is, of course, Oscar Wilde. Though I don't know how much profit he
made
from the Ballad of Reading Gaol.
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