Unwittingly, Maria Miller's Spad has done her country a favour
Occasionally there is wonderful serendipity in news, meaning the occurrence of a happy accident that proves an important point perfectly. The extraordinary case of Maria Miller, her special adviser and...
View ArticleThe Times is treating James Harding's ousting as though it's a Cabinet...
Anybody wondering why James Harding has been ousted as editor of The Times newspaper need look no further than the coverage of this event in today's Times. In all properly run newspapers the departure...
View ArticleConnecticut school shooting: we need to treat mass killings as an...
America's periodic school shootings, I think, fill a similar psychological space for the Left as Islamic terror does for the Right. The horrific images and the unnerving out-of-a-clear-blue-sky nature...
View ArticleWhy can’t news programmes cover past and present rather than future?
Yesterday, from the vantage-point of an Irish historian, I gave six radio interviews (Radio Five Live, BBC Merseyside and twice BBC Wales and the World Service) on the Magdalene Laundries, which were...
View ArticleWill Hacked Off rest on its laurels? Don't bet on it
Although all three parties claimed victory in the press regulation negotiations, the real winner was clear: Hacked Off. Not only did it manage to bring the press under parliamentary control for the...
View ArticleWhy Johnny Depp is no longer the only great pirate actor
Move over, Johnny Depp. He may have been great as Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean, but when it comes to playing Captain Sparrow's real-life Somali counterparts, noone beats a certain chap...
View ArticleFor generations, radical Leftists fought for press freedom. Why have they...
If you get into an argument about press regulation this week, as the Privy Council unilaterally decides on the fate of the British press, I guarantee you this: it will be the Lefties among your...
View ArticleTessa Jowell: MPs shouldn't claim special status
Tessa Jowell is one of the essentials of British politics. She's standing down at the election and in the meantime is giving thought to running for London mayor in 2016. Some suggest she might end up...
View ArticleCan everyone please stop posting photos of dead Palestinian children all over...
Harrowing photos of dead or injured Palestinians kids are appearing everywhere. They’re being splashed across newspapers, under headlines such as “The terrible price Palestinian children pay for...
View ArticleHamas manipulated and intimidated the media in Gaza. Why was that kept from us?
We should normally say if our reports are censored or monitored or if we withhold information, and explain, wherever possible, the rules under which we are operating.- Section 11.4.1 of the...
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