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| Thursday 13 June 2013 |
Twitter: #FreeSpeech or #EthicalCleansing?
Where is the outcry over the rising number of blatant cases of non-secret state interference online and in social media?
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| Thursday 6 June 2013 |
The art of defending
press freedom
In this video, Mick Hume takes us on a trip through the ‘After Leveson’ exhibition in London that he helped to curate.
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| Friday 31 May 2013 |
Homage to Orwell
Revisiting George Orwell’s classic account of the Spanish Civil War, 75 years on.
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| Thursday 30 May 2013 |
The Daily Mail did not
kill Lucy Meadows
A coroner’s ruling that the press helped drive a transgender teacher to her death marks a new low in the culture of ‘You can’t say that’.
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| Thursday 23 May 2013 |
Liberty comes out
against press liberty
The UK’s top civil liberties lobby has finally played its hand on the press – it favours statutory backed regulation.
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| Tuesday 14 May 2013 |
Remember, Fergie is for football, not for life
The tributes to Sir Alex Ferguson from United fans were fitting. The outburst of Fergie-mania in the media and politics was fatuous.
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| Wednesday 8 May 2013 |
They’re all Mr Less-
Than-Ten-Per-Cent
The remarkable fact that no UK party won even 30 per cent of the votes cast last week marks a new low in the disintegration of the old order.
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| Friday 3 May 2013 |
Homage to Orwell
Revisiting George Orwell’s classic account of the Spanish Civil War, 75 years on.
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| Thursday 2 May 2013 |
My outrage over ‘racist’ Reginald D Hunter
In the ridiculous storm over the comedian’s act at the PFA awards dinner, the real joke is on football’s Zero Tolerance zealots.
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| Thursday 25 April 2013 |
Can you see what they did yet?
Yes, Rolf Harris should be named. But the media should also be asking why he’s been arrested.
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| Wednesday 17 April 2013 |
Didn’t she die when the wall came down?
The ‘divisive’ or ’decisive’ Thatcher made history, but not in circumstances of her own choosing.
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| Wednesday 10 April 2013 |
That’s enough on Hacked Off, Eds
We need to focus less on the private machinations of the anti-tabloid lobby, and more on making the public case for press freedom.
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| Thursday 4 April 2013 |
Philpott fire: Shamelessly exploiting dead children
The conviction of Mick Philpott for killing six of his kids has sparked a shroud-waving contest between enemies of welfare and a free press.
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| Tuesday 26 March 2013 |
Accepting Leveson means accepting we have lost
The current nitpicking about the details of the shabby Royal Charter deal is not nearly enough to defend press freedom.
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| Wednesday 20 March 2013 |
10 random lies about the press freedom stitch-up
The shabby deal to impose a new press regulator by royal charter has sparked an outpouring of myths, misrepresentation and mendacity.
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| Thursday 14 March 2013 |
Stitching up press freedom behind closed doors
Labour and Hacked Off are now prepared to hold the political system to ransom and rewrite the UK constitution in order to tame the press.
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| Wednesday 6 March 2013 |
Nobody wins election
that never was!
After the Eastleigh by-election, the question is not just who might win the next British General Election, but what is politics for anymore?
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| Thursday 28 February 2013 |
With Leveson and libel, reforms are not enough
The Lords’ attempt to sneak a ‘Leveson law’ through the back door shows the need for a more principled fight for freedom of expression.
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| Thursday 21 February 2013 |
The Met: the armed wing of the Leveson Inquiry
The escalating police campaign against UK tabloid journalists is a PR stunt that threatens the future of investigative reporting.
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| Wednesday 13 February 2013 |
The ‘test’ for press freedom should not be set by lords or victims
The idea that the Tories’ proposals for press regulation are ‘too soft’ turns truth on its head.
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