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Labour’s travails with the media are more deadly than it thinks ‘People don’t vote for a divided party; we’ve got to learn some lessons about how we handle the media.’ So said John McDonnell during a recent LSE lecture, and frankly amen to that. Five months in, Jeremy...

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,...

There’s an ongoing scandal at the heart of our media; a crime not just against those living but against those yet to be born. Throughout the passage of the health and social care act, the BBC was the dog that barely raised an eyebrow. It’s been the most obedient of...

It is somewhat ironic that the coverage of the Leveson report yet further affirms why the press must be reformed. The Sunday papers were awash with a visibly scared press prejudging the outcome of the report and warning of the end of free speech as we know it. From...