Alex Thomson
It’s not just phones that have been hacked, it’s British power
It has been called the Trial of the Century and cost millions of pounds. But the phone hacking trial also raises serious questions about our political system.
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Alex Thomson
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Gary Gibbon
Murdoch responds to secret tape
Rupert Murdoch writes to MPs to explain his words in a recording made secretly during what he said was an ’emotional’ meeting with staff caught up in the phone-hacking scandal.
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Gary Gibbon
Scapegoated or misunderstood? Hunt spad speaks
Jeremy Hunt, told the prime minister “our media sector will suffer for years” if they blocked the BSkyB bid. Weeks later, he was given responsibility for the bid. Channel 4 News politics editor, Gary Gibbon, is on the case.
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Gary Gibbon
Phone hacking: Commons summons on the cards?
Channel 4 News Political Editor Gary Gibbon blogs about a possible Commons summons for former News International staff.
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Gary Gibbon
Adam Smith, Fred Michel to appear at Leveson
As the Leveson Inquiry calls Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt’s former adviser, Adam Smith, to give evidence, Channel 4 News Politics Editor, Gary Gibbon, ponders a potential strategy for the minister.
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Gary Gibbon
What would Commons moment look like for Murdoch men?
In the light of the hacking report, Channel 4 News Political Editor Gary Gibbon blogs on the last time a non-MP was summoned to the Commons accused of contempt of parliament
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Gary Gibbon
MPs slam Murdoch execs – but Tories refuse to condemn Murdoch
Damning report from the media select committee on the Murdoch empire, but four Tory MPs didn’t sign up to the criticism of Rupert Murdoch – a Lib Dem and the five Labour members did. That diminishes the power of the report somewhat, blogs Gary Gibbon.
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Gary Gibbon
Murdoch ‘never asked a prime minister for anything’
Channel 4 News politics editor Gary Gibbon on Rupert Murdoch’s first exchanges at the Leveson Inquiry, in which the media mogul discusses conversations with Margaret Thatcher
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FactCheck: How much did James Murdoch know about phone hacking?
“The big question is: how much did James Murdoch know back in 2008? Did he try to buy Mr Taylor’s silence in a bid to stop the whole story coming out?”
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Gary Gibbon
Leveson may not get down to phone hacking detail ‘until 2015’
Police sources suggest Lord Leveson’s inquiry into phone hacking, to be based at the Royal Courts of Justice in London, may not finish its investigations until 2015, blogs Channel 4 News Political Editor Gary Gibbon.
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FactCheck: Meetings with Murdoch
David Cameron’s new rules on transparency were rushed in on the same day Rebekah Brooks quit. The PM slung out the details of his meetings with media moguls, leaving Ed Miliband racing to match his new spirit of openness. And today we are treated, for the first time in British history, to details of who all the ministers are busy meeting (see full list on Number 10’s website).
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Is Cameron really coming clean on meetings with the moguls?
David Cameron revealed today that he had Andy Coulson to stay at Chequers after the phone hacking suspect resigned as Tory press chief over the scandal. Who else has been invited to the PM’s country pile? We may never know the whole story, as FactCheck discovered…
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Is this what politicians really think about Murdoch?
Is this what they always thought but never said? What they now think after thinking something different before? Or just what they think we think? It has been thoroughly confusing watching MP’s declare victory over Rupert Murdoch. A victory for parliament, they call it. That remains to be seen.
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Gary Gibbon
The death-knell for Murdoch’s BSkyB bid?
Channel 4 News Political Editor Gary Gibbon looks at whether political opposition to Rupert Murdoch’s BSkyB bid marks its death-knell.
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Gary Gibbon
D-Day for the phone-hacking scandal?
Is Wednesday ‘D-Day’ in the phone-hacking scandal, with the possibility of Ed Miliband squaring up to David Cameron over the issue in the House of Commons?