Most things about the UK are quite agreeable, but how the Crown deals with the press in often repugnant. They sue whenever their image is damaged, or they go in and destroy the evidence. Remember the uproar when the newest princess was photographed topless, and the tabloids had the audacityto publish them. I’m sorry princess, you are in the public eye, and the public likes naked photos of their betters. In the end you just have to get used to it.
Then recently the Crown went to the Guardian and destroyed the Snowden evidence, because they were afraid that the information could help terrorists, or something like that. (Don’t you love that phrase, it’s used all the time to cover up all types of atrocious behavior by governments these days.) Now, apparently, the Crown through its embassy here in the States has demanded that the New York Times destroy the matching documents, for the same stated reason. Thankfully, the US press works under different rules than those in the UK, so there is little chance of that happening.
While the press is mostly free to say what it wants in the UK, there are limits to it, which is why, no matter the problems, the press freedoms in the US are better, except for the nudity thing. Sex sells.