Blair’s email and reputation
Tony Blair’s reported words of comfort and advice to Rebekah Brooks just as the News of the World had been accused of hacking into Millie Dowler’s phone will make some feel pretty squeamish.
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Tony Blair’s reported words of comfort and advice to Rebekah Brooks just as the News of the World had been accused of hacking into Millie Dowler’s phone will make some feel pretty squeamish.
Rebekah Brooks got advice on handling the phone hacking scandal from former Prime Minister Tony Blair who told her to use sleeping pills, and outlined a media strategy involving investigating herself.
The court of appeal announces whole-life prison sentences are legal and compatible with human rights – a decision that is likely to affect the sentences of Lee Rigby’s killers.
Dried off and back on solid ground, David Cameron announced he would return from the flood-hit south west to hold a Downing Street press conference. Is the event making a comeback?
The prime minister couldn’t wait to pounce over Labour’s links to the troubled Co-op Bank, which is due to face a string of inquiries into recent mismanagement.
Former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks and ex-spin doctor Andy Coulson were having an affair, which had lasted at least six years, a court hears.
Buckingham Palace will be unhappy that a royal prerogative, meant to be above contention and a symbol of unity and agreed public interest, is being squabbled over to the last fence but today they had to lump it.
The gulf between the newspaper industry and the politicians’ plans for regulating them is yawning wider than ever.
A leading author tells Channel 4 News there is a risk of “moral panic spinning out of control”, as Irish police investigate Europe’s second suspected child abduction case involving a Roma family.
The former Labour press chief hits back after Mail editor Paul Dacre attacks him personally in a rare editorial piece.
MPs have agreed a deal on a proposed royal charter that they hope will be the workable solution to press regulation. But the newspapers reject it outright.
The UK’s three main political parties reach an agreement on establishing a new system of press regulation, a government source says.
The editor in chief of the Daily Mail remains not only elusive but silent on the many questions we would like to ask him.
New rules on making sure newspapers keep to certain standards should be a done deal stamped by the Privy Council, but the big players are staying away.
Culture Secretary Maria Miller tells the Commons that the newspaper industry’s proposals for self-regulation have been rejected – and that the government will now press ahead with its own charter.