In an eloquent speech to Britain’s House of Commons on Monday, the increasingly popular Conservative member of Parliament Jacob Rees-Mogg sharply criticized the House of Lords for supporting legislation that would smash British media freedoms.

Pushed by a cretinous freak, “Mad” Max Mosley (whom I wrote about last week), the bill in question would impose responsibility for the costs of defamation lawsuits onto media outlets, even if the outlet in question successfully defends itself and establishes that everything it published is true. Considering that English defamation laws are already very deferential to plaintiffs, in contrast to American laws, the consequences of this new legislation coming down from the House of Lords would be catastrophic.