Memo to Walter Bagehot, ex-editor, The Economist: did you really mean to...
Sir: this blog is not in the habit of addressing spectres, ... but whatever did you mean by this? 'Newspaper campaigns clearly influence policy-making. […] But arguably their greatest day-to-day...
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The judge must wrestle with the distinction _within_ the blogosphere between those whose writing amounts to comments for the sake of commenting, versus ‘those that are in the course of -- if you like,...
View ArticleHow Lord Justice #Leveson let down everyone who cares about the practice of...
A few days ago, The New York Times columnist David Brooks, arguing from first principles, made the case against a partisan press incontrovertibly. Like all the best essayists, he did this by also...
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