When we launched barely three months ago, Heat Street promised to tear apart safe spaces and bring controversy wherever we went.
However, internet guardians in the Houses of Parliament had other ideas.
MPs and their staff were shielded from reading our site on the parliamentary estate for months, until web censors gave in and whitelisted our site.
Heat Street favourites like Jeremy Corbyn, Diane Abbott and John McDonnell could have found themselves deprived of revelations about their own blunders, as well as useful and sincere advice from our commentators.
Thanks to overzealous internet filters news and views on everything from Milo Yiannopoulos to the National Union of Students was replaced with a dreary no-entry sign, picked up by Westminster insiders:
@heatstreet Guys. pic.twitter.com/TBapDHfoTq
— Jim Waterson (@jimwaterson) July 18, 2016
Commons communications staff blamed on an automatic scanner putting Heat Street on the ban list.
But after the snafu was unveiled, the site was swiftly scrubbed from the blacklist.
Now Parliamentarians are free to and get involved from the comfort of their offices.
Here’s some suggestions for any sleepy members looking to catch up:
- Top Theresa May aide linked to election fraud probe
- John McDonnell can’t even run his local radio station
- Corbyn charity takes £10,000 from Japanese mega-bank
- Owen Smith’s £60,000 from tax avoidance firm
And there’s lots more to come…
