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 This week Europe has been on the brink, with a financial crisis that threatened to take a turn for the worse. Surely it illustrates the power of financial markets as they pass judgement not only on individual companies or banks, but on countries as well. Yet markets...

For most Labour people, their starting point with Rupert Murdoch is the front page of The Sun with Neil Kinnock’s head in a lightbulb in the 1992 election.  The lightbulb wasn’t the beginning.  It was the culmination of years of hostility that Kinnock had had to face...

Ed Miliband has come of age as Labour leader over the phone hacking scandal that has engulfed the News of the World and the controversy around Murdoch's proposed takeover of BSkyB in comparison to the continued incompetence of David Cameron. It is a brave thing to...

Who won? No doubt about who won today – Ed was excellent. His handling of the News International and News of the World questioning was sensitive and sincere, with his calls for a public inquiry into the phone hacking echoed by millions of people up and down the country. He was on the money.