by Brian Cathcart It is a marvel of hypocrisy for the Sunday Times to attempt to worry its readers about a ‘fifth column’ in the British establishment that is supposedly led by…

The YouGov Poll commissioned by The Sun, published today on p.6 and headlined “State-run watchdog will gag free press: 75% of Brits see threat to the papers” also found a result less…

by Brian Cathcart. Originally published by CNN. Journalism is not a perfect science: it is usually done under pressure and often in a confusing environment, so it is not possible to avoid…

by Brian Cathcart Is there a link between the BBC crisis and Leveson? Does the fate of George Entwistle teach us lessons about regulated journalism? Sunday papers are fumbling for the connection.…

by Brian Cathcart At Prime Minister’s questions this week Harriet Harman, the Labour deputy leader, raised press regulation with Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister. It is worth reading the full exchange…

by Mike Jempson It was inevitable that the bullyboys of the newspaper industry would campaign under a spurious banner of press freedom against any attempt by Lord Justice Leveson or politicians to…

When the history of the phone-hacking scandal is written, journalists at The Guardian will be heroes. The persistence they showed – in particular Nick Davies and Alan Rusbridger – in pursuing and…

Seventy-eight per cent of the population wants independent press regulation backed by statute. No witness or anybody else at the Leveson Inquiry advocated state control of the press. Lord Justice Leveson’s terms…

It is a tribute to the imagination of those behind the campaign to smother Leveson at birth that so many major news stories can in some way be twisted to the industry’s…

The FT’s editorial, “Leveson, the media and the law”, sets out the paper’s position on a new regulatory framework for the press in some detail for the first time today. The piece…