Curbing egregious practices: How to miss the point
Free media policies have costs and disadvantages and egregious episodes. But that’s how freedom works. Deal with it
- 25 March 2013
David Cameron halts press regulation talks. Good on him
Cameron actually gets it. A free press must be defended, if anything against public hypocrisy
- 15 March 2013
Keeping our press out of the EU's hands
With Cameron putting the cat among the pigeons with his referendum promise, it is vital that we keep EU-hands off the press
- 25 January 2013
Leveson: Breaking our spirit, summoning the whip
What is it about the whole Leveson exercise that is so...disturbing?
- 4 December 2012
A post-Leveson future: 'This week's news'
Our weekly round-up of the top stories...in 2022
- 3 December 2012
We Need To Talk: About Leveson, UKIP and Palestine
Raheem Kassam discusses the hot topics of the week with Dr. James Boys and Alex Wickham
- 1 December 2012
Freedom: Such a dirty word in Westminster
We are the people of this country; we are the bosses. And it is really about time politicians start acting with this in mind
- 30 November 2012
PM must reject the worst elements of Leveson Report
Mr. Cameron must stick to his guns and kick these unreasonable, undemocratic, and ultimately unworkable proposals into touch
- 29 November 2012
Dr Death: Leveson hastens decline of printed press?
In effect, Leveson is attempting to regulate a dying industry while the internet is universally acknowledged as impossible to regulate
- 29 November 2012
The Leveson Report
Read the full Leveson report here
- 29 November 2012
The Lord's Prayer
Lord Justice Leveson's recommendations should be rejected if they contain even one iota of statutory regulation of the press
- 29 November 2012
PMQs: Uh Oh. Pre-Leveson reality check for Ed
PMQs started with some words about flooding but with the floodgates of Leveson held at bay for twenty four hours, other matters came into play, writes Harry Cole.
- 28 November 2012
Morgan, Mensch, The Daily Mirror and Me - Proof We Don’t Need More Press Laws
Prolific blogger Paul Staines aka Guido Fawkes tells all about his involvement with the Leveson Inquiry, Operation Motorman and Piers Morgan
- 9 November 2012
Why is it always scandal before action?
Whilst it should be the role of the media to expose individual misdeeds by the now relatively rare form of investigative journalism, it must be the role of leaders, legislators and prosecutors to address the heart of the problem
- 9 November 2012
(D)PMQs: Snap, Crackle and Clegg
The Deputy Prime Minster destroyed his Labour opponent whilst stepping in for an absent Prime Minister, but the praise could not last forever writes Harry Cole
- 7 November 2012
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