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Charles Moore
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: We Don't Need No Regulation
Criminal suspects should not be named until they are charged except if circumstances mean lives could be in danger, new official police guidance warns...
As an activity, journalism cannot and should not be licensed by the state or any professional body, any more than art or political protest should.
When you've been untouchable and all powerful and have successfully fought off seven previous government attempts to put an end to press abuse, you don't give your power up lightly. So the announcement that three newspaper groups have "rejected" the Royal Charter, recently agreed by a united House of Commons, is not surprising.
John Whittingdale, the chairman of the Commons culture, media and sport committee, has said the proposals from the newspaper industry for a system of ...
The newspaper industry today firmly rejected the government's plans for the future of press regulation and published its own proposal for a Royal Char...
As a practicing lawyer frequently representing a cross-section of victims ranging from A-listers to politicians, while at the same time also having a significant number of journalists and publishers on my client list, I often have to change hats when arguing for press freedom on the one hand, and striving to protect the basic reputational and other rights of the ordinary man on the street on the other.
Right, well. You remember the Leveson enquiry (gosh I know, seems like forever ago!) well I wrote to Leveson because I've been really worried for 42 years about Page 3. And these days there's even more stuff like that in the papers isn't there! So actually it was good to get the chance to tell someone in a position to listen.
Liberty's website declares on its home page "Working to PROTECT CIVIL LIBERTIES, and PROMOTE HUMAN RIGHTS for everyone". But does that "everyone" not include journalists?
Sky News should be allowed to be as politically biased as it wants, according to an influential group of peers - a proposal rejected by the head of th...
The royal charter system for the future regulation of the press agreed by David Cameron, Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband is probably "illegal under Europea...
The press are in a frightful tizz about their freedoms. They implore the public to come to their aid and save them from the ignominious fate of being tethered by rules and - what are they called? - standards. Yes, that's it: standards.
Michael Gove has indicated he is unhappy with the proposals to regulate the press and said he only voted in favour of the plan as he felt he had to as...
David Cameron was facing growing questions on Tuesday evening over whether his plans for a powerful new press regulator, backed by legislation, would ...
Max Mosley, the former Formula One Boss turned privacy campaigner following a News of the Word sting, has told MPs he supports "cutting the wires" to ...
New press regulation could have a "chilling effect" on online news and blogs, but be rejected by large media corporations like the Daily Mail and Rupe...
Tom Watson has welcomed moves to impose new regulation on the press after years of "screaming terror" felt by MPs who feared newspapers would turn the...
David Cameron told a meeting of Conservative MPs in Westminster on Monday that he had "called the bluff" of Ed Miliband during negotiations over the f...
Conservative MPs have expressed their frustration at David Cameron's decision to reach a compromise deal on the Leveson Report that Labour argues incl...
Downing Street has insisted the agreement reached on Leveson is "not in any way" a statutory underpinning of press regulation - but was unable to conf...
The parents of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler have criticised the government's approach to reforming the press. Bob and Sally Dowler said they we...
Labour has accused David Cameron of "an historic mistake" after he called off talks on press reform. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg joined the cr...
David Cameron is heading for almost certain defeat in the Commons on Monday after he blew up cross-party talks on implementing the Leveson proposals f...
David Cameron has been told by Harriet Harman to "man up" and deal with press regulation. Labour's deputy leader said her party wanted to reach agr...
One of the central recommendations of Lord Justice Leveson's report on press regulation could be unlawful, lawyers commissioned by the newspaper indus...
The key recommendation of Lord Leveson's report into media conduct, that a new media regulation system be enshrined in law, has been firmly rejected b...
