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Radio 3 is modelling itself on Classic FM. This copycat behaviour is the real...

It’s 90 years today since the BBC broadcast for the first time. I’m not sure whether that historic first broadcast was an apology, or in some way self-flagellating, but this isn’t going to be one of...

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If the McAlpine libel achieves anything, let it be to teach people on Twitter...

We are all publishers now. If Lord McAlpine’s treatment on the internet achieves one thing, it will be through the litigation he undertakes to teach some of us that important lesson. The rise of social...

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Are magistrates and juries using Google to help them reach their verdicts?

Does technology threaten the future of jury trials? The Law Commission is advising the Government on how it could improve the law by requiring media outlets to remove news stories from their websites,...

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Why Leveson's proposals are nothing like the First Amendment

At the centre of Lord Justice Leveson’s report is the idea that legislation should enshrine the protection of the press. Like many people, I tend to prefer a jurisprudential approach which take as the...

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The curse of carol services – entertainment for 'Christmas tourists' who...

For many churchgoers this Christmas, the trip won’t have anything to do with religion. It’s tourist season and the hot destination for travellers is God. Time to pack your hymnals and lay out your...

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The human rights lobby is depressingly keen to preserve the status quo over a...

We don’t have an organisation in the UK akin to the American National Rifle Association, but if there were any group within our society who were as sorely keen to defend the constitutional status quo...

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Julia Gillard survives her 'spill'. Such is the farce of Australian Labor...

The Australian Labor Party is surely one of the world’s most dysfunctional political organisations, making even the decade-long melodrama between Gordon Brown and Tony Blair look statesmanlike in its...

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Sweden, the liberals' favourite state, loves to snoop on its citizens. We're...

This year The Economist described Sweden as "probably the best governed" country in the entire world. But "governed" is putting it mildly. The Swedes have purposefully constructed a semi-Orwellian...

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The Yes campaign’s poll bump is likely to be erased by the Duchess of...

Politicians and spinners for Scottish independence will strut into television studios for the next ten days and rely upon one big, flimsy idea. It isn’t that oil is a stable commodity upon which to fix...

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Scottish independence: What are Alex Samond's currency options after Scots...

A chipper Alex Salmond will have a busy time in the days following a vote for independence. When he gets up off the floor from begging the Royal Bank of Scotland not to do a Sean Connery, he has to...

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