Tomorrow, Lord Justice Leveson delivers his report following a public inquiry into the culture, practices and ethics of the British press. The press are terrified that he will recommend statutory regulation. But they have a plan...
A former party Vice Chair of the UK Independence Party asks why it takes a scandal to gain media coverage for the growing party. What chance political diversity when parties outside the ‘big three’ don’t get a look in?
This weekend radical activists from across Britain will come to the capital to debate, discuss and plan for a future beyond the dead end of austerity.
We publish an interview with Angela Phillips, a leading authority on the British media, in the run-up to Lord Justice Leveson's report on the culture, practices and ethics of the UK press.
In Afghanistan, opium is not clandestinely traded on some back alley black market. Opium is the market.
The UK Border Agency’s messy attempt to resolve thousands of outstanding asylum claims has led to yet another day of terrible headlines. But ministers know how to stop this happening again, if they would just have the courage.
One of the first women to be ordained as a priest in the Church of England bitterly regrets the General Synod’s vote against women bishops.
Are Spurs fan's chants of 'Yid army" anti-semitic, as the Society of Black Lawyers have claimed, or this is a case of appropriating terminology as a means of nullifying it?
Police chief elections - what are we to make of the dismal turnout?
Unless we act against education privatisation it will set in and be difficult to reverse. It’s unrolling nationally, and local responses need to operate in a way which engages with this. We shouldn’t be negotiating privatisation. We should be turning it back.
Lord Justice Leveson's public inquiry into UK press standards is about to report. But the unfolding crisis shaking the BBC will muddy the waters. This is a call for delay.
The UK needs to bring forward plans to enfranchise prisoners by Thursday.
