Ian Hislop’s right: Murdoch’s cosy relationship with Tories should be investigated
There appears to be a revolving door between Rupert Murdoch’s papers and the Conservative Party.
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Forget the press, Leveson is all about politics
The good Lord Leveson has certainly set the cat among both the press and political pigeons. His elegantly crafted proposal for establishing a self-regulatory regime for the press, backed by statutory under-pinning…
Andrews’ media accusers have some explaining of their own to do
It is a sad day when senior political figures steal a journalist’s recording device and destroy its contents, as we have been told happened at this year’s Victorian Labor Party conference. But it is an…
Cooperation and conflict in sex, reproduction and family life
Few acts in the living world involve more intimate cooperation than sex. Two individuals combining their DNA to create a new and unique individual. And that’s only conception. In long-lived species, especially…
Why autocratic bosses are a dying breed
The idea that everyone wants leadership and wants to be led is a popular one, especially among corporate CEOs, but how true is it? Recent political events in Ukraine and Thailand should focus business…
Not the Sun wot won it: what Murdoch’s half‑hearted, last‑minute endorsements mean for Labour
The Sunday Times has given Starmer a gritted-teeth endorsement, but The Sun has not backed a party.
The end of an era for Fairfax: but does size matter?
After 159 and 172 years respectively, the broadsheet tradition has ended for the weekday editions of The Age and Sydney Morning Herald (SMH). Today, both these Fairfax Media mastheads became tabloid-sized…
10 years after Finkelstein, media accountability has gone backwards
Media regulation in Australia has always been weak, fragmented and lacking in public visibility. It has also never had a government bold enough to do anything about it.
Secret trial: this assault on free speech and open justice must not stand
It was June 4 2014. That was the date the British public learned that, in spite of their relatively free media, the power of the state – as expressed by the executive and the judiciary – was poised to…
Constitutional ransacking of British journalism
British journalism has been battered by an unrelenting power grab on the part of the country’s political classes. The move to foist an “all-party agreed” infrastructure of regulation by Royal Charter underpinned…
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