There is a strange kind of hypocrisy in the way some Fleet Street representatives use and abuse the notion of Parliamentary approval. As it happens, the claim that the cross-party Royal Charter - which will now be delayed beyond May 15 - has not been approved by Parliament is misleading at best. On the one hand, Roy Greenslade was "taken to task" on May 2 (by whom?) for … [Read more...]
This Was Your Leveson: a reflection on recent months
So here we are. The United Kingdom will now have some kind of statute-backed independent self-regulation thing - presuming the press actually signs up. After Cameron's withdrawal from cross-party talks put us all on war footing, he and the other two party leaders pulled a deal out of the hat in the small hours of Monday morning. Did the Prime Minister think he could win a … [Read more...]