Comment is free... sometimes

On Comment is Free this afternoon, Jackie Ashley argues that we shouldn't expect commentators to be anyone's mouthpiece:

We're commentators - not MPs, not spin-doctors, not players - and there's a basic duty to tell it as we see it.

If only...

Meanwhile, Lisa Appignanesi, deputy president of English PEN, has a go at Tesco for trying to stifle criticism in Thailand.