Even though it concerns another jurisdiction, where there are no possible restrictions which might affect publication, the Telegraph Media Group Ltd still prevents comments on the Booker column, where Booker turns to the behaviour of Dutch social services, catching the English disease of "kiddie stealing".
This case involves the kidnapping by Dutch social workers of two 10-year-old twins from a Russian-speaking Latvian family long resident in Holland. Pretty well everything about this case echoes what goes on behind closed doors in England, Booker writes.
It has social workers colluding with a dysfunctional father to justify snatching distraught children from their mother; the social workers incarcerating the children miserably in care homes; the courts refusing to test evidence and accepting lies.
But because this case is in Holland, not Britain, the family can be named and its shocking details publicised. Although, thanks to the "caution" of the Telegraph Media Group Ltd, you are not allowed to comment directly on the piece, and neither are you allowed to see a screen grab of the YouTube video which is freely accessible on the net (above).
So it is that the self-appointed guardians of our freedoms to not exactly cover themselves in glory. One wonders what they might have made of the Mail, where the issue of "secret courts" is again tackled.
This, we are not to know as the Telegraph Media Group Ltd prefers the easier and safer target of a bent MP, none other than Patrick Mercer, whom they happily fit up in a "sting" operation, despite having freely used the man as a talking head, every time a journalist wanted a quote on defence or security matters and was too lazy (most times) to find someone who knew what they were talking about.
Returning to Booker, he also deals with the BBC's routine myopia when it comes to dealing with the government's deficit, with its constant references to "cuts" when public spending is continuing to increase.
In his third story, Booker also takes another tilt at the asbestos ramp, a get-rich scheme for lawyers, who are milking the hardship and misery of others, as they rake in more in fees than victims get in compensation.
Neither the deficit nor the asbestos story are attracting much input from a commentariat which prefers to hyperventilate over global warming, which leaves the issues forlornly unrehearsed, and the social worker rampage devoid of outrage from readers.
But, at least the stories are there to read. That much is better than nothing â until they are removed.
