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Rod Liddle’s Sunday Times article may incite hatred, but IPSO is powerless to act
The Sunday Times has been widely condemned for running a column by Rod Liddle over the weekend in which he suggests extremists should blow themselves up in London’s Tower Hamlets, away “from…
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Shadow Home Secretary labels IPSO “toothless” at Hacked Off & MEND event
By Luke Geikie Hacked Off and MEND (Muslim Engagement and Development) co-sponsored a fringe event at the Labour Party Conference to discuss the need for independent press regulation and the importance…
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Thrown To The Wolves
It has been four years since the sham “regulator” IPSO was set up and they are still failing victims of press abuse. Read our latest publication “Thrown to the Wolves” on how…
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‘Muslim Fostering’: Times Journalism Utterly Discredited
By Professor Brian Cathcart The story caused a sensation but quickly fell under a cloud of doubt. Now the release of the final court judgment in the case leaves the newspaper’s reputation…
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The Press and Sir Cliff: They Have No Idea
By Brian Cathcart. The response of editors to the judgment shows them out of touch with the public and digging an ever-deeper hole of contempt for their journalism One of the…
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YouGov Poll: Public backs Court’s decision in Cliff Richard Case, 86% favour investigation anonymity
A YouGov opinion poll conducted on 19 and 20 July 2018 has shown overwhelming public support for pre-charge anonymity of suspects. The results are startling: 86% of respondents support the anonymity of suspects under…
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A dose of reality about IPSO for Matt Hancock
By Professor Brian Cathcart (@BrianCathcart) ‘Even a cursory consideration shows it does not meet the requirements,’ says the Press Recognition Panel – after the Culture Secretary told us IPSO was…
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Matt Hancock makes himself ‘State Approver’ of press arbitration
By Professor Brian Cathcart (@BrianCathcart) A week ago the corporate papers were screaming blue murder about threats of state control. Yet now the government has given itself a real power over them…
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More Broken Promises, Lies and Betrayal
The Culture Secretary, Matt Hancock MP, deliberately misled the Commons when he announced the Government’s plan to cancel the second half of the Leveson Inquiry on March 1st 2018. Watch our latest…
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126 leading academics tell Parliament: back reforms to implement Leveson and finish the Inquiry
On the eve of the vote on Leveson amendments to the Data Protection Bill, over 100 leading academics have written to Parliamentarians urging them to back reform. Please find the letter…
