The Jian Ghomeshi trial has started and is being live-tweeted - very ably I might add - by various journalists. Some are more impartial than others. BUT what does live-tweeting have to do with the presumption of innocence? Everything. The presumption of innocence is one of the most inconvenient concepts of modern democracy. It's the reason we have 10 day trials, costing untold amounts of...

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