Jul
13
Daily Mail and the public interest
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Journalism is often about balancing a great story on the one hand, with the public interest on the other. Whilst researching different attitudes towards matters of harm and offence amongst Britain’s media regulators (as you do) I came across the following story in the Daily Mail: Model poses nude for Life Class art show… on [...]
Jun
17
What’s the point of MPs?
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Until there is some consensus on the purpose of MPs, we will never get a satisfactory answer to a number of important questions in public debate right now. The MPs expenses scandal, the number of MPs, the electoral system, a statutory code of conduct, the new speaker: at the heart of all these issues is: [...]