Opinion
Matthew Norman: Online can be a bamboozling term
Reflecting on a week of unrelenting excitement even by his standards, an indelicate question poses itself about Rupert Murdoch. Is the old boy finally losing it?
Inside Opinion
Stephen Glover: Murdoch's cheerleading for Labour is being forgotten
Monday, 16 November 2009
During Rupert Murdoch's long affair with New Labour, there were a few people on the left who went on expressing their loathing for the old rogue. The Guardian's Polly Toynbee springs to mind.
Matthew Norman: The Fry affair was Twitter's first JFK moment
Monday, 9 November 2009
Which of us will ever forget where we were when we heard that Stephen Fry had resigned from Twitter?
Stephen Glover: The Guardian's phone-tapping scandal sunk by lack of evidence
Monday, 9 November 2009
I can still remember the exultant, almost mystical, look on Kirsty Wark's face as she announced that The Guardian was about to reveal a major scandal involving phone tapping and Rupert Murdoch.
The Feral Beast: Cameron proves his Blair genes
Sunday, 8 November 2009
Proof that Cameron is the heir to Blair. When Tony Blair held press conferences he would almost always ignore Mail on Sunday columnist Peter Hitchens, who would keep his hand up throughout, just to make the point he was being ignored.
Stephen Glover: Let's send more reporters to Brussels and lift the muslin veil
Monday, 2 November 2009
The President of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Klaus, has almost been run to earth, and will soon sign the Lisbon Treaty. It will then become law, and nothing an incoming Tory government has up its sleeve is likely to change that.
Stephen Glover: The sound and fury of the mob can never be a substitute for measured and reasoned debate
Monday, 26 October 2009
Last week was not a happy one for the media. It was a week in which the voice of the mob tended to drown out the voice of reason. First there was Jan Moir, and then there was Nick Griffin.
Edward Barker: Who won in the BNP publicity war?
Friday, 23 October 2009
What has the Green Party been up to this week? You probably don’t know because its opponents have not been breaking into BBC studios, writing letters to the BBC demanding its censorship nor has it had a high profile national campaign launched against it.
Stephen Glover: This injunction shows a real lack of respect for the freedom of the press
Monday, 19 October 2009
Super-injunctions are much more oppressive than a traditional court order
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