Brian Cathcart

Brian Cathcart is professor of journalism at Kingston University and a former deputy editor of the Independent on Sunday, he is the Director of Hacked Off and tweets at @BrianCathcart.

Leveson's job of tackling UK press abuse is far from over

Now that Rupert Murdoch has faced Lord Justice Leveson, it's easy to think it's all over. But the purpose was never to nail the mogul's media empire. This is a UK state inquiry into the culture, practices and ethics of the British press in its totality, and that work is far from done.

By Brian Cathcart

/ 30 Apr 2012

Joseph Rotblats humanity

Two years ago, on 3 September 2003, I organised a talk by Joseph Rotblat at the Institute for Contemporary Arts (ICA) in central London. I had known about his extraordinary

By Brian Cathcart

/ 1 Sep 2005

Britain and the atomic bomb

On the day Nagasaki was destroyed, 9 August 1945, the United States government published a book written by Henry De Wolf Smyth entitled Atomic Energy for Military Purposes, giving its

By Brian Cathcart

/ 4 Aug 2005

Polio: a war not yet won

One day it could rank among the greatest collaborative achievements of humankind, the fruit of decades of work by millions of people across the globe, at a cost of billions

By Brian Cathcart

/ 12 May 2005

Brian Cathcart

Leveson's job of tackling UK press abuse is far from over

Joseph Rotblat&#146;s humanity

Britain and the atomic bomb

Polio: a war not yet won

Joseph Rotblats humanity