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Stephen Glover: Even the right-wing press could not support Osborne on this Budget

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 00:00:01 +0100

The past few days have been bad for the Coalition but far worse for David Cameron's Tories. It was they, rather than the Liberal Democrats, who bore the brunt of the media blame for the Budget, and it was they who were turned over by yesterday's Sunday Times over talk of dodgy donations.

Stephen Glover: Thatcher, Murdoch and the meeting that was erased from history

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 00:00:01 +0000

Did the Thatcher government bend the rules to allow Rupert Murdoch to buy The Times and Sunday Times in January 1981, thereby cementing his dominant position in the British Press? Many have alleged as much without producing conclusive evidence. A note just released as part of the Thatcher papers suggests Mr Murdoch was given an inside track.

Stephen Glover: The Troubles are still raging for The Guardian's media pundit

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:00:01 +0000

An extraordinary item appeared last Tuesday on Professor Roy Greenslade's MediaGuardian blog. It was a harsh attack on his colleague Henry McDonald, the long-serving Ireland correspondent of The Observer and The Guardian. The Prof noted that the previous Friday a story by Mr McDonald had appeared in The Guardian wrongly attributing a Belfast murder the night before to "Republican paramilitaries".

Stephen Glover: Is Geordie Greig being road-tested for the editorship of the Daily Mail?

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 00:00:01 +0000

For me the most interesting development of the week was not the resignation of James Murdoch as chairman of News International. His fall from grace will be prolonged and messy, and there will be many opportunities to write about it. No, more gripping was the unexpected appointment of Geordie Greig as editor of The Mail on Sunday in place of the long-serving and redoubtable Peter Wright.

Stephen Glover: A new dawn for Rupert Murdoch. But did The Sun shine on Sunday?

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 00:00:01 +0000

Rupert Murdoch's new paper is not even called The Sun on Sunday. It is the Sunday edition of The Sun. That tells us all we need to know. This title is not simply a refashioned News of the World rising from the ashes.

Stephen Glover: The interests of Mr Murdoch and his journalists no longer coincide

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:00:01 +0000

The past few days have seen a dramatic and unexpected realignment of forces in the phone-hacking scandal. Until a week ago it seemed that the Murdoch Press, in particular the News of the World and The Sun, was excoriated by almost everyone: polite society, the liberal intelligentsia, the police, hacking victims, newspaper rivals and politicians. Tabloid journalists working for Rupert Murdoch were all tarred with the same brush.

Stephen Glover: These arrests reveal that Murdoch is no longer running the show

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:00:01 +0000

Nothing like this has happened to a newspaper before. Two weeks ago the executive editor of The Sun, Fergus Shanahan, was arrested with four other former or current journalists on the paper. That was bad enough, but the arrest on Saturday of five senior employees, including joint deputy editor Geoff Webster and chief reporter John Kay, has turned a crisis into something close to a calamity.

Stephen Glover: The editor of The Times must learn the lessons of the News of the World

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:01 +0000

Tomorrow the editor of The Times, James Harding, is due to appear before the Leveson Inquiry a second time. I suspect he will be pretty nervous. When he appeared before the inquiry three weeks ago he appears to have been somewhat economical with the truth concerning a case of email hacking at his paper. The Times also stands accused of withholding important information from a High Court judge in 2009.