Leveson inquiry Articles

This has been published as a response to this month's Progress editorial – Time to stop blaming the media Margaret Beckett, in Labour’s election post-mortem, Learning the lessons from defeat, suggests – unsurprisingly – that the party’s principled support for the...

‘Imagine my initial confusion’, tweeted Labour member of parliament Jess Phillips, ‘as I worked in sexual health MSM means Men who have Sex with Men’. The MSM, or the so-called ‘mainstream media’, has become the scapegoat for many about the grievances they feel with...

There really was no question what the topic of discussion would be at this week’s PMQs following yesterday’s only half shocking verdict in the drawn out phone hacking trial. Andy Coulson’s guilty verdict was never going to bring the axe down on the prime minister but...

It is David Cameron’s sad fate to be to One Direction what Harold Wilson was to the Undertones, and of all of his sad covers of Wilson-era hits, the Leveson inquiry was the worst of all. Wilson wasn’t amiss to the odd inquiry or commission to kick a problem upstream,...