re: Daily Mail scribbler writes strange column about Joey Barton's sexuality

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Can you sue them for libel?

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Not sure how it works in England, but here its pretty hard to defeat freedom of the press. Even in a situation like this. He's a public figure so he has a much smaller expectation of privacy. He exposes himself to the public daily, so he would be pretty unlikely (at least by American laws) to be successful in a lawsuit.