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By Huw Irranca-Davies MP / @IrrancaDaviesMP Edmund Burke is often acknowledged as the source of the term Fourth Estate to describe the press. In a speech to the Commons in 1787 he reportedly described the three estates of parliament - the…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk As revealed by the Observer earlier this evening, Labour will attempt to use an opposition day debate on Wednesday to try and halt the News International takeover of BSkyB - and the leadership claim to be…
By David Talbot / @_davetalbot In January of 2007 the News of the World's royal editor, Clive Goodman, was jailed for hacking into the phone of three Royal aides. Glenn Mulcaire, a private investigator, who had been on the paper's payroll…
Whilst there has been much criticism of Ed Miliband's BBC interview last week (not least on LabourList), it's important to remember that George Osborne got there first:
By Tom Hayes / @tomhayes1983 BBC Audience Services replied to my complaint about Ben Brown's interview with student tuition fees protestor Jody McIntrye. They linked me to a blog written by Kevin Bakhurst, the Controller for the BBC News…
By Diana Smith / @mulberrybush All governments have it - a fatal flaw which will bring about their decline. In the case of this government it is something that has been apparent to all close observers from the start. The government's fatal…
By Josh Fenton-Glynn On Saturday the Labour Party elected a new leader using rules the have had in place for the past 17 years. It's now time for the rest of the country to get to know Edward Samuel Miliband. Sadly coverage from the BBC to…
Letters from a Swing Voter I'm not sure about you, dear readers, but the media-fest that has now become the voice of our election has left me feeling a little bloated and fatigued. This week, in particular, has been quite a broadcast binge…
By Jim Sweetman / @Jimbo9848 Billed as the first big pre-election policy debate, Jeremy Paxman's excursion into the world of maintained education - something which he clearly does not know a lot about - was a bit of a disappointment. In…
By Keith Moran Michael Gove used his Newsnight interview on March 1st to turn up the heat on the BBC. He demanded the corporation spend just as much time questioning Labour and Liberal politicians about their wealthy donors' tax affairs…
Richard Robinson's Speech Bubble On Remebrance Sunday, Gordon Brown delivered a personal, sensitive and emotionally moving tribute to the Armed Forces. He referred to our soldiers as heroes, brave young people to the core, who fought in…
By Brian Barder / @BrianLB There's been no shortage of strongly argued reactions to the BBC programme Question Time, starring the malodorous British National Party's leader Nick Griffin. (You can still watch the whole thing online here.)…
