Are we so far from the 5th of November?

[drwex]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/oct/12/guardian-gagged-from-reporting-parliament

The Guardian is also forbidden from telling its readers why the paper is prevented – for the first time in memory – from reporting parliament. Legal obstacles, which cannot be identified, involve proceedings, which cannot be mentioned, on behalf of a client who must remain secret.

The UK has always had Official Secrets and less rights of free speech than the US (there's a reason the First Amendment is there, after all). But this is, as the paper points out, sui generis at least in the modern history of Parliament.

Just in case anyone's lost: http://www.rhymes.org.uk/remember_remember_the_5th_november.htm

ETA: hat-tip to Mz Rowan for the update: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8304483.stm
The update, which publishes the question in question, makes me wonder why the heck the gag order was imposed in the first place.