Comment: NUJ gen sec: Why I’m rooting for Leveson
General secretary of the NUJ Michelle Stanistreet gives her view on what the Leveson Inquiry must achieve.
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So, Mr Cameron, why spare Hunt and knife Warsi? (As if we don’t already know…)
David Cameron is referring Baroness Warsi to the adviser on the Ministerial Code; he is not referring Jeremy Hunt… Spot the difference?
The Week Outside Westminster: Murdoch goes Salmond-fishing
Ed Jacobs presents the news of the week in Northern Ireland, Wales, and – yes! – even Scotland.
Tabloid hypocrisy shocker: NotW scumbag accuses Guardian of “shoddy journalism”
Alex Hern covers the incredible cheek of the News of the World journalist Jules Stenson who accused Nick Davies of being a shoddy journalist.
Leveson witnesses tell of the suicides caused by tabloid intrusion and lies
The Leveson Inquiry takes a break today, at the end of a week in which celebrities and ordinary people have testified to the abhorrence of the tabloid press.
Tabloid hypocrisy shocker: “Aren’t those other papers nasty, with all that hacking?”
Alex Hern reports on the remarkable degree to which every tabloid manages to avoid reporting on its own implication in the phone hacking scandal.
Capo di tutti capi plays dumb when quizzed about Murdoch mafia’s “omerta”
The Murdoch empire was compared to the mafia when James Murdoch reappeared before the culture, media and sport select committee today, reports Shamik Das.
Dowler solicitor: News Int acting “like Soviet Union… you think the KGB are following you”
The solicitor of Milly Dowler’s family, Mark Lewis, has accused Rupert Murdoch’s News International of behaving “like the former Soviet Union”, reports Shamik Das.
The Sun “tax avoiding” front page you won’t have seen this morning
Today’s Sun, a paper run by a man who deliberately avoids billions in UK tax, attacked Vince Cable for inadvertently failing to pay VAT on his media and book earnings.
No last orders for Sky as sporting stranglehold remains
Will Durnan reports on the recent European Court ruling on Premier League football – and analyses the implications of the verdict for sports viewers in the UK.