by Mike Jempson If the Press think they have been dealt a bad hand by the Royal Charter, they have only their own to blame. Those who broke the law, or trampled…

by Brian Cathcart Here’s a paradox: with vital votes due in Parliament on Monday, the people who run our biggest national newspapers are backing a press regulation system in which serving cabinet…

The Conservative draft Royal Charter, published 14th March, can be read here. The joint Labour and Lib Dem draft, published 15th March, can be read here. 1. The Conservative Royal Charter can be changed by…

Like their newspapers, “representatives of the press industry” apparently negotiating with Conservative ministers over Leveson cannot shed their old habits of inaccuracy, distortion and unreliability.  The statement is misleading and disingenuous, concealing…

As Lord Justice Leveson said in his report, the press has ‘no real appetite for an effective and adequate system of regulation’. Not only did he show in detail how the Press…

Updated on April 11th, 2013. A little-reported adjudication by the PCC provides fresh evidence of the many inadequacies of the current press complaints system. It relates to a long-running dispute between Lord…

There are lies, damned lies and then there are Leveson stories in the British newspapers. Sections of the press have been engaged in a systematic and transparently self-serving campaign to undermine the…

by Brian Cathcart Hacked Off has acquired a letter that vividly shows newspaper bosses giving orders to government ministers behind the scenes, just weeks after the Leveson Report declared that such secret manipulation…

By Brian Paddick, Former Deputy Assistant Commissioner, Metropolitan Police My former colleague, Kevin Hurley, well known amongst his contemporaries for his alternative views and now Police and Crime Commissioner for Surrey, hit the headlines last week…

by Brian Cathcart Three weeks ago the great former Sunday Times editor Sir Harry Evans accused the national press of gross distortion and staggering misrepresentation in their coverage of Lord Justice Leveson’s…