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Wednesday 13 February 2013	Media


Mick Hume 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.

Thursday 7 February 2013
Mick Hume An unfree press – by appointment to the Crown? The Tories’ ‘alternative’ to statutory press regulation is to get the monarch and Privy Council policing freedom of expression once again.

Thursday 13 December 2012
Mick Hume Ditch Leveson - let’s get back to first principles Amid the elites’ detailed discussion of competing forms of regulation, there's a danger of losing sight of the far bigger issue of press freedom.

Monday 10 December 2012
Tim Black Practical jokes do not cause death The blame game around two radio DJs effectively accused of prompting a nurse’s death only compounds the tragedy.

Monday 3 December 2012
Mick Hume Leveson: a licence to police press freedom The dangers inherent in Lord Justice Leveson’s report do not end with the controversy over statutory underpinning for a new press regulator.

Monday 12 November 2012
Brendan O’Neill ‘Serious journalists’ are the most tabloidesque of all The Newsnight/paedophile fiasco has utterly exploded the idea that modern British journalism can be divided into Good and Bad camps.

Thursday 8 November 2012
Mick Hume Defending the press as an unruly mess In the debate about statutory-backed regulation, many on all sides appear to have accepted the myth that the UK press is too free.

Wednesday 19 September 2012
Mick Hume ‘Our liberal media is less keen on a free press than the Puritans were’ Mick Hume, author of new book There Is No Such Thing As a Free Press, answers your questions.

Thursday 26 April 2012
Brendan O’Neill Is Murdoch really a lizard in a suit? The Murdoch-bashing of the smart set who believes he ‘controls Britain’ has crossed the line from rational inquiry into David Icke territory.

Thursday 29 March 2012
Mick Hume Who wants to live in Hugh Grant’s ‘ideal world’? The tabloid-bashing actor-crusader returns to read Lord Justice Leveson’s script on ‘light touch’ state regulation of the press.

Monday 27 February 2012
Mick Hume The danger of reporters becoming ‘crusaders’ The death of courageous war reporter Marie Colvin in Syria was a tragedy – but not a justification for further Western intervention.

Monday 27 February 2012
Tim Black How Leveson has chilled the Sun The first Sun on Sunday is proof that elite hysteria about ‘tabloid culture’ is taming and dulling the tabloids.

Tuesday 21 February 2012
Mick Hume Who’s afraid of the Sun rising on a Sunday? Rupert Murdoch’s new tabloid has already been branded a ‘creature from the swamp’ – let’s hope it is the News of the World with knobs on.

Monday 30 January 2012
Gabrielle Shiner The misogyny of the anti-Page 3 brigade The prudes trying to strip the tabloids of topless pics belittle women far more than any male reader could.

Wednesday 11 January 2012
Nathalie Rothschild Taking risks in pursuit of the truth The jailing of two Swedish journalists in Ethiopia is a powerful reminder of the need for investigative reporting.

Tuesday 3 January 2012
Brendan O’Neill Using tabloid tactics to slay the tabloids The Guardian's retraction of the Charlotte Church story brings to 40 the number of anti-Murdoch articles it has had to correct.

Wednesday 16 November 2011
Mick Hume The UK press is on trial for its freedom... … and the tabloids have already been found guilty by Lord Justice Leveson’s inquiry/inquisition.

Tuesday 16 August 2011
Tim Black Attacking press freedom in the name of privacy Having made private conduct central to politics, it’s a bit rich for MPs now to slate the press for being obsessed with private peccadilloes.

Tuesday 2 August 2011
Rob Lyons Panorama’s addiction to pisspoor journalism Last night’s edition of the BBC’s current-affairs show was a one-sided showcase for the anti-alcohol lobby.

Tuesday 19 July 2011
Brendan O’Neill Murdochphobia is not as radical as you think Whatever you think of Rupert Murdoch (I’m not a fan), you should be concerned that bashing him has become the only political game in town.
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