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.
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Coogan: “If the Daily Mail went to the wall tomorrow I’d be delighted”
Steve Coogan savaged the feral, gutter press on Newsnight last night – reserving his greatest scorn for the Daily Mail and the paper’s editor Paul Dacre.
The NUJ is the solution to the sickness at News International
Ruwan Subasinghe is a lawyer at an international trade union federation If bankers and politicians previously headed the public’s vilification rankings, journalists (and their employers) are now right up there thanks to hackgate. Many commentators have highlighted British journalism’s current ‘moraltest
Hugh Grant, Ed Miliband and Unite join to bury the Digger for good
Hugh Grant last night spoke at a fringe event held by the Hacked Off group at the Labour Party conference. Although self-deprecatingly referring to himself as the bait so that others could discuss the issues, he proceeded, “humbly”, to maketest
The government must explain the alternatives to Conditional Fee Arrangements
The government should urgently explain the alternatives to Conditional Fee Arrangements, writes Sound off for Justice’s Jonny Mulligan.
De Piero: High time Labour redefined its relationship with the press
Gloria de Piero has called for “a more realistic relationship” between Labour and the media, one in which newspapers’ influence “is kept in perspective”.
Tories used PIs “to spy on their own supporters”
There are reports this morning that the Conservative party used private investigators, like Glen Mulcaire, to delve into the personal lives of their own supporters.
Murdoch could be jailed for “life of the Parliament” if guilty of contempt
James Murdoch faces a maximum sentence of being “committed to prison during the life of the Parliament” if he is found to have misled the media select committee.
Our current political system cannot bring about the change we need
Lisa Nandy, Labour MP for Wigan, and chair of the cross-party group on international corporate responsibility, on why the political system needs to change.
Cameron fuels right’s hate fixation on the BBC
In the wake of the phone hacking scandal, the right’s hatred of the BBC has loosened their grip on a core consevartive principle – upholding the rule of law.