Our deputy editor talks to Michael Portillo about the proposed purchase of the Daily Telegraph and Spectator by a financial alliance linked to the government of Abu Dhabi.
Lancashire Police’s tone reeks of deflection at a time when it now faces tough questions about its handling of the case.
In pursuit of the prosecution of Jimmy Lai, the pro-Beijing regime is dismantling the rule of law and breaking the Sino-British Declaration.
It’s telling that Caroline Nokes and her co-signatories won’t spell out for us what action they want taken against the free press.
Hoyle is within his rights to disapprove of the media reporting Commons gossip about Rayner, but not to summon journalists.
He also dismisses “this lunatic policeman” who threatened press freedom, and says “if necessary I will read out every word of [Darroch’s cables] in the House of Commons.”
Fleet Street, normally a justified sceptic of men from the ministry controlling what people publish, is an enthusiast of regulating social media giants.
Watson et al lost today, but they will inevitably return. The Government should honour its pledge to delete the preferred weapon against free expression.
Independent, fair, and low cost arbitration is the way to ensure ordinary people are protected from abuses. Parliament overwhelmingly voted for that in 2013.
Pleasingly, it includes several policies that this site has proposed.
The Culture, Media and Sport Committee Chairman says that the key is for IPSO to adopt a Leveson-compliant system of low-cost arbitration.
He asks Mosley whether he has a ‘vendetta’.
Few noticed the Investigatory Powers Bill becoming law because all eyes are on the process of leaving the EU.
Bradley should make clear that this misguided campaign to muzzle the media will not succeed.
It’s starting to feel that this issue might also end up in the too-difficult box – and therefore that the sale might ultimately go through, regardless of what Lucy Frazer, the Culture Secretary, does in the immediate term.