News of the World closed by market forces: the system works
In the end, the News of the World was brought down by consumer pressure: a combination of the withdrawal of advertising and the likelihood of a popular boycott. Having survived lawsuits, libel...
View ArticleDavid Cameron's worst nightmare
Today David Cameron finds himself in the "awkward" position of having to back a Labour motion calling for Murdoch's News Corporation to drop its bid for BSKyB. Of course in the current climate of...
View ArticleJohn Whittingdale used to go easy on News International. Now he's howling for...
John Whittingdale, the mild-mannered chairman of the Commons Culture Committee, had been inclined to take a characteristically laid-back view of the problems at the News of the World – and a...
View ArticleKen Livingstone gets duffed up again over links with Murdoch
There are three polls out tonight which show that Labour is not getting all that much of a boost from the phone-hacking scandal, and has indeed gone down in two out of the three. ICM for the Guardian...
View ArticleNeil Kinnock's proposal for media regulation would turn our newspapers into...
How depressing to listen to Neil Kinnock just now. The former Labour leader, who once saw himself as a British radical, an heir to John Milton and John Wilkes, calmly proposed that the print media...
View ArticleToday is the freak show; tomorrow when David Cameron comes to the Commons...
With the marquees of the broadcasters arrayed on college green like the pavilions of a besieging army, the hacking story is ready to eat itself. The BBC even has a special logo of photos of the...
View ArticleMorning briefing: Tories should remember that Coalition is a marriage of...
From my morning briefing email, which is published each weekday by 8.30am – sign up to receive it here. Nick Clegg's decision to desert Dave over Jeremy Hunt is a shock to the Coalition. He has an eye...
View ArticleRupert Murdoch: the liberal Left's Emmanuel Goldstein
I was listening to Radio 4 news yesterday as with salivating glee it reported the recall of Rupert Murdoch to the Culture Media and Sport Select Committee and I thought to myself, not for the first...
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