According the The Sun’s Tom Netwton-Dunn the Royal Charter cooked up in a late night meeting with Hacked Off has been shelved. BREAKING: The Govt has withdrawn its Royal Charter on press regulation from the May 15 privy council meeting – for more talks with editors. — Tom Newton Dunn (@tnewtondunn) May 3, 2013 Rather [...]
After libel reform was sorted this week, Nick Clegg killed off the snoopers’ charter on live radio, and now newspapers have rejected the Leveson Royal Charter. Apparently everyone has told Brian that he’s not the messiah but a very naughty boy, with even the FT, Independent and Guardian, declaring that alternative proposals being made [...]
Guido Fawkes has launched a campaign to try and counter the moves towards blog censorship that were put out in the Royal Charter passed on Monday. The truth is this that the Leveson agreement was written in a rush, with little consideration of how the web will fit into the media landscape now and in [...]
On Monday Parliament voted to bring in exemplary damgages, as recommended by Leveson, as part ofthe Crime and Courts Bill. To try and make some sense of the mess created by the Royal Charter I have been going through the Hansard record of Monday’s debate and vote. Bizarrely, it seems that no party leader voted [...]
The campaign group Hacked Off returned to the Media Select Committee today, after yesterday’s announcement of a Royal Charter to regulate the press. Given they were in the room with Letwin, Miliband et al deciding the final deal,as confirmed by Labour Select Committee member Paul Farrelly, you might have thought that they had their [...]
A picture says a thousand words.
In late night Whitehall talks, a deal on implementing Leveson and regulating the press has been done. The very concept should terrify us. Never mind the vagaries of this Royally-Underpinned-Charter, or whatever it now is, or the fact that once again there was a massive internet elephant in the room, just waiting to trample on the [...]
Until recently this country was being ruined by terrible tabloids and their journalists, so thank goodness we had Hugh Grant and his mates in Hacked Off to save us. Except, as Mark Wallace so accurately points out, Hugh Grant doesn’t seem to like to play by his own his own rules. Here is a Hugh tweet [...]
Sign up to the Despatch Box, the new weekly political e-magzine from digitalpolitico.net In all the analysis of Lord Justice Leveson’s report into press ethics there has been one rather uncomfortable truth that has been ignored. The key point of the story by The Guardian that shut the News of the World was incorrect. If [...]
Sign up to the Dispatch Box, the new weekly political e-magzine from digitalpolitico.net I don’t really want to discuss too deeply the allegations surrounding Jimmy Savile. Suffice to say that I consider them shocking and disgusting, and the potential victims worthy of respect and a proper hearing after all this time. The reaction from various [...]