by Brian Cathcart A clear majority of people trust the Leveson inquiry to deliver more effective regulation of the press and better protection of the public from intrusion, according to a poll…

by Brian Cathcart So it has begun. With the big-name politicians drifting away from the Leveson inquiry and the hearings turning towards the technicalities of press regulation, the newspaper industry has finally…

by Brian Cathcart Straight back into the old groove he slipped, like he had never left it: Tony Blair’s presentational trick has always been that he does reasonable, and before the Leveson…

by Brian Cathcart Can Rebekah Brooks receive a fair trial on her charges of perverting the course of justice? The question arises for two reasons. The first is because she is a…

**From CNN.com by Brian Cathcart There had to be something special about Rebekah Brooks. Here was a woman, after all, who managed to be a close friend of Tony and Cherie Blair,…

by Brian Cathcart Peter Hill was editor of the Daily Express for seven years, from the end of 2003 to early 2011. Among his claims to fame is that he edited the…

Four and a half members of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee have put their Conservative colleagues in an awfully tricky position. Therese Coffey, Louise Mensch, Philip Davies and Damian Collins…

“I should have gone there and thrown all the damn lawyers out of the place” (Rupert Murdoch, Leveson Inquiry, Thursday 26th April 2012, p.68) Amongst the many people and organisations Rupert Murdoch…

by Brian Cathcart After all the excitements of the Murdoch week it would be easy to imagine that the Leveson inquiry’s job of tackling press abuse in this country is done, or…

**From Comment is Free/Guardian by Brian Cathcart Murdoch’s persona is ingenious, but News Corp’s corrupting influence is laid bare in cold detail in the Jeremy Hunt emails Rupert Murdoch’s critics, watching him…