Issue No.
63
December 2012
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| Welcome to December’s review of books |
 Tim Black
The publication of Lord Justice Leveson's report into the 'culture, ethics and practices' of the press provided 2012 with a particularly anti-free speech coda. It is apt then that in this, the final spiked review of books of 2012, Mick Hume turns his attentions to those who effectively ghost-wrote Leveson's 2,000-page testament to tabloid-bashing animus. Namely, the elite lobby group Hacked Off and its co-founder, Kingston University professor of journalism, Brian Cathcart. While Hacked Off may appear a little flippant, fronted as it is by professional fop Hugh Grant and one-time comedian Steve Coogan, its intent, sadly, has been all-too serious. Elsewhere, Jennie Bristow finds a decade of nightmares in the 1960s; Nancy McDermott ponders the end of man; and Angus Kennedy asks if culture is really little more than an evolutionary survival mechanism. Have a fantastic New Year! [Cover illustration by Jan Bowman.] |
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