Here’s a key excerpt from the last night’s debate at the launch of the so-called “Free Speech Network”, a new mouthpiece for newspaper proprietors and editors trying to avoid any meaningful outcome…

Beneath the pious headline, “OUR PRESS MUST REMAIN FREE”, Tim Luckhurst receives a generous puff for his new Leveson pamphlet in the Daily Telegraph’s Comment pages. Citing Winston Churchill and the US…

by Brian Cathcart The Sunday Times is once again breathtakingly one-sided about Leveson. It’s Focus-page treatment of the issue – under the ludicrous headline “CENSORED” – is little more than a lengthy…

by Brian Cathcart When Hacked Off arranged for Charlotte Church and Jacqui Hames to form part of our delegation to meet the Prime Minister last week, neither we nor they could have…

by Brian Cathcart The Daily Mail wants you to ask yourself why Lord Justice Leveson is not reopening his media ethics and standards inquiry to deal with the BBC’s role in the…

by Brian Cathcart The Daily Telegraph is worried about freedom. In an editorial about the Leveson inquiry, which is due to report in the next few weeks (probably November, according to rumour),…

by Brian Cathcart At the Liberal Democrat party conference in Brighton this week the Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, set out a firm position on the need for independent press regulation that…

by Brian Cathcart ‘Oh my God!’ yelps the French magazine Closer, announcing its topless duchess scoop with the warning: ‘The photos which will go around the world’. What can they make of…

**from Inforrm The press is always at its ugly worst when it is reporting on issues which affect its own interests. Its self-image as a fearless crusader, speaking truth to power, is…

**From Inforrm As the froth dissipates it is worth reflecting on what lessons the saga of the Prince Harry photographs has for the media regulation debate. There is a natural tendency to…