Don't take away the will to make headlines
Statutory regulation will remove the power of the press to expose and hold to account people and situations which have and could change the world
- 18 March 2013
Press regulation car crash
A big part of me thinks that press regulation proposals are a disaster in the making. A small part of me hopes these proposals go through so we can see the utter balls up that follows
- 18 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
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
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
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
Expect nothing but obfuscation from the BBC on Jimmy Savile
If phone hacking led to a circus like Leveson, then the BBC revelations should lead to root and branch examination of the BBC, its principles, practices and whether or not (we suggest the latter) it has any journalistic integrity or moral legitimacy left.
- 9 October 2012
Freedom of the press now concerns us all
Nick Cohen condemns Lord Justice Leveson for failing to get to grips with the real issues surrounding free speech and privacy in the digital age
- 6 July 2012
Latest on the blog
- Major incident in South London with reports of shootings and a beheading
- Saudi Arabia beheads Yemenis, displays corpses in public
- Swastika flag flies over Palestinian village
- VIDEO: BBC presenter slapped down over question of Farage's drinking and smoking habits
- MPAC Woolwich response betrays British Muslims
- NY Democrat pleads with Republican not to share document proposing confiscation of guns
- Sunday Times blood libel cartoon, on Holocaust Memorial Day no less
- Palestinian jailed for Facebook like
- 'Muslim Patrol' vigilantes attempt to control London streets
- Saudi cleric who raped and killed daughter receives small fine
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