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It's cheeky, but it's not uncommon. It was used quite well as a way to force Trafigura to drop its injunction on reporting the fact it had dumped tons of toxic slop in Ivory Coast
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2009/oct/13/trafigura-drops-gag-guardian-oil
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Oliver Schick
Ah, thanks for that. I didn't realise it was quite so ropey! I suppose I was misled by it coming from an MP (and I didn't even know that he was SNP). I find it counter-intuitive that they are able to use parliamentary privilege to spread something like this--then again, perhaps he was misled, too.