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miranda
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To read somebody their rights on arrest as set out in Miranda v Arizona.
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The top 10 was dominated by the BBC, with the penultimate episode of Miranda Hart'sthe sitcom Miranda seen by 6.7 million people, a 27.6% share, and the Doctor Who Christmas special seen by 6.3 million.
Miranda was serving as a human passenger pigeon, shuttling encrypted files on USB drives between filmmaker Laura Poitras and Greenwald because, as the whole world now knows, the Internet is fully bugged by the US and UK governments.
Yet all day long they had allowed the falsehood to be tweeted and written about that Miranda was detained without being offered a lawyer.Pretty shocking.
In an interview with broadcasters, she suggested that Miranda was stopped because he had secret information that could help terrorists.
The detention of Mr Miranda subverts the benefit of the doubt that liberal democracies ask for when they arm themselves against terrorism.
The Times (paywall) says the police need to justify the detention of Miranda.
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The viewer is also treated to Blackadder Christmases past, including a burst of Miranda Richardson as Queenie, sentencing courtiers to death on a festive whim, and Hugh Laurie's fat-headed Prince George losing all his Christmas presents to a sweet old lady collecting for charity.
The puffin, RSPB president Miranda Krestovnikoff said, is an uncomplicated candidate, without political baggage.
The episode also seemed to exemplify a sense that female anger no longer had the place in the mainstream that it had during the 1990s, when Clarkson was growing up listening to Alanis Morissette; she feels this is changing, raving about both Adele and country singer-songwriter Miranda Lambert's latest Pistol Annies project.
Coming on the back of the detention of David Miranda, it seems that the UK government is using, and quite likely misusing, laws to intimidate journalists and silence its critics.
This week's detention of David Miranda under the UK's Terrorism Act is a defining point.
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