Journalist Richard Medhurst has been exonerated of the terror allegations levied against him - another lawfare fail for an unfit for purpose law! Right, so independent Middle East journalist Richard Medhurst has been exonerated, which is the polite way of saying the British state has spent more than a year waving the word “terrorism” around, smashing up a journalist’s life, and then quietly admitting it had nothing to back it up. No charges. No trial. No conviction. Just a long, expensive shrug at the end, once the damage was already done. And here’s the thing: if this were a one-off, it would be embarrassing. But it isn’t. It’s familiar. Because this is now the rhythm of the system. Arrest first, headlines second, silence third, collapse last. Always under the same law, always aimed at the same political space, always ending the same way once ev ...