Stephen Glover

Profile: Full name: Stephen Glover Area of interest: Media, Politics, Society Journals/Organisation: The Independent | Daily Mail Email: scmgox@aol.com | s.glover@independent.co.uk Personal website: Website: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/opinion/stephen-glover | http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/columnist-244/Stephen-Glover.html Blog: Representation: Networks:

Biography: About: Education: Career: Daily Telegraph: journalist; The Independent: (founder member) The Independent on Sunday: editor; The Spectator: media columnist Current position/role: The Independent: Media writer; Daily Mail: columnist also writes/written for: Other roles/Main role: Other activities: Disclosures: Viewpoints/Insight: David Rowan.com: Interview: Stephen Glover, columnist (Evening Standard), 24th March, 2004 Broadcast media: Video: Controversy/Criticism: Peter Stothard: Newspapers have never been better resourced or more authoritative and entertaining. So why is Stephen Glover so gloomy? - New Statesman, 27th September 1999 The ridiculous awards circus that shames our profession, The Independent, 21st March 2005 Roy Greenslade: Telegraph bid to gag Glover denies press freedom, The Guardian, 12th July 2006 Awards/Honours: Scoops: Other:

Books & Debate: Paper Dreams: (1994) OCLC 29910723 Secrets of the Press (1999) OCLC 41960895 Latest work: Speaking/Appearances: Debate:

The Independent: Column name: Media Studies Remit/Info: Media Section: Media Role: Commentator Pen-name: Email: s.glover@independent.co.uk Website: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/opinion/stephen-glover Commissioning editor: Day published: Monday Regularity: Weekly Column format: Lead topic plus two other topics Average length:

Articles: 2012 Even the right-wing press could not support Osborne on this Budget - The only newspaper which rallied to Mr Osborne's defence was The Times - 26th March Thatcher, Murdoch and the meeting that was erased from history - Murdoch's talk of standing up to the unions was music to Thatcher's ears - 19th March The Troubles are still raging for The Guardian's media pundit - Few people are aware The Guardian's media sage has links with Sinn Fein - 13th March Is Geordie Greig being road-tested for the editorship of the Daily Mail? - There are already two seasoned internal candidates for the editorship - 5th March A new dawn for Rupert Murdoch. But did The Sun shine on Sunday? - You wouldn't feel grubby reading this, though you might be a bit bored - 27th February The interests of Mr Murdoch and his journalists no longer coincide - Protecting journalistic sources is both a legal and moral duty - 20th February These arrests reveal that Murdoch is no longer running the show - The detaining of five senior Sun employees has turned a crisis into a calamity - 12th February The editor of The Times must learn the lessons of the News of the World -Had the judge known the facts, he might have referred the case to the police - 6th February Patten paves the way for a return to Reithian values at the BBC - Did last week's events indicate a change of direction at the BBC? On Monday Lord Patten, chairman of the BBC Trust, told The Times that head hunters had been instructed to find a successor to Mark Thompson as director-general - 30th January All papers need advertorial. But don't go duping your readers - Newspapers will forfeit trust if readers suspect the covert pushing of a commercial agenda - 23rd January A spot of late-night carousing between police and press is vital for democracy - What is the role of a good journalist if it is not to get policemen to 'spill the beans'? - 9th January Magazines that peddle celebrity gossip should also be scrutinised - There's a whole section of the industry that Leveson is ignoring - 2nd January

Articles: 2011 It's time Davies had the grace to admit Guardian was simply wrong - It went further than it should have. A very good story was overegged - 20th December A rather modest retraction for a story that has changed so much - If The Guardian had not published its story, the News of the World might not have been closed - 12th December If it really wasn't Mulcaire, then who did delete Milly's messages? - What had been seen as a discreditable saga was turned into a disgraceful scandal - 28th November The celebrities are wrong. No private life should be entirely off-limits - Mr Grant can't expect the tabloids to go on buying milk only when he wants to sell it, and at the price which he determines - 20th November We have a stake in a Chinese restaurant, even as the BBC World Service is cut - Does David Cameron know about this £230m investment in China? I doubt it - 15th November MPs need to raise their game when James Murdoch appears again - In July some MPs might as well not have turned up, they were so feeble - 7th November It can't be right for news presenters to be doubling up as historians - It's lazy to offer jobs for the boys or girls rather than search out the best person - 31st October The threats to our free press seem less acute after this eloquent defence - How impressive his reflections seemed in light of politicians’ manoeuvrings - 24th October Fox shows we no longer have a Tory press. We just have a right-wing press - The Telegraph and Daily Mail are disenchanted with David Cameron because they don't think he is robust enough - 17th October The BBC is wrong to cut back local radio - Incompetent councillors and dodgy businessmen will draw comfort from the announcement - 10th October Too powerful? Far from it, the press is too weak - The decline of newspaper sales are much more grievous than most politicians and critics of the press appear to realise - 26th September Cynical charade that is the 'Sun on Sunday' - It would have been far preferable for almost everyone, excepting the Murdochs, if the News of the World had been decontaminated and cleaned up - 19th September Sometimes it can be right to break the law - If newspapers were prevented from publishing information given to them by police sources, there would be an awful lot of blank spaces to fill - 12th September Newsnight needs a makeover, not the axe - There was a time when I looked forward to BBC2's Newsnight. I felt sparks might fly, particularly if Jeremy Paxman were in charge - 5th September It's time to fight for the best of the BBC - It seems that the more upmarket BBC4, which is the Corporation's sole remaining enclave of Reithian values on television, will be the greater loser - 29th August Is Richard Desmond Murdoch's true heir? - Cost-cutting and imitation will only get him so far – but that could be quite a long way - 22nd August Sales show the public still want newspapers - We are told so often that papers in newsprint form are dying a slow and painful death that it may seem foolish to question the received wisdom - 15th August Can Piers charm his way out of this one? - Piers Morgan, former editor of the Daily Mirror, can't believe his bad luck - 8th August Stephen Glover: What's the secret scoop merchant Peston? - Robert Peston is a member of the board of the Media Standards Trust, an organisation committed to "quality, transparency and accountability in news". I wonder what it has to say about his apparent reliance on a close friend for a series of scoops that may serve the best interests of that friend – Will Lewis, group general manager at News International, and a former editor of The Daily Telegraph - 1st August It wasn't The Sun wot won it for Cameron - Both Cameron and Osborne have bent the knee to the Murdoch Empire - 25th July This drama is no cause for celebration - The Times is still a fine paper, and honest enough to write fearlessly about the Murdoch empire over the past week - 18th July Rebekah Brooks will still have to go in the end - Comment: They've made a show of punishing an institution while those responsible escape retribution - 8th July A tragic case but who is really at fault? - They may be growing hostility felt by the senior judiciary towards the tabloid press - 27th June Online gambling that could prove reckless - The Guardian as we know it in print form is being put on the back burner - 21st June One rule for print, another for online - What are we to make of the provocative photographs published by Mail Online of a video of Colombian singer Shakira? - 13th June The Guardian can't feed this many mouths - Alan Rusbridger has garnered more commercial power than he is qualified to wield - 6th June A decline in ads that's put the heat back on - If the advertising downturn goes on for long I fear some newspapers are in for a further battering - 30th May Judges need to wake up to the 21st century - It seems not to occur to them that the privacy law may not carry consent - 24th May Contempt of court case raises difficult issues - Two newspapers are facing charges over their treatment of Joanna Yeates's landlord. Stephen Glover weighs the evidence - 16th May Can newspaper 'apps' ever make a profit? - Newspaper publishers who are banking on the iPad producing a torrent of new revenue are being over-optimistic - 9th May Royal spinners have unleashed a monster - When you have led the media virtually into your bedroom you cannot easily slam the door - 2nd May This secrecy can hide far greater wrongs - Comment: He shouldn't have gone to the law to conceal his mistake - and the law shouldn't have let him - 27th April What Mail Online could teach its rivals - Online newspapers which don't charge can be profitable, and their success need not be at the expense of print - 27th April Cut the World Service and it's Britain we harm - Is the government machine too rigid for anyone to admit that a silly decision was made during last autumn's spending review? - 18th April When is an advertorial not an advertorial? - Times may be hard, but editors must fight to preserve the distinction between editorial and advertising - 4th April 2011 Economies are a reality even the BBC must face - The economies the BBC is belatedly having to contemplate were accepted long ago by other media organisations - 29th March A good newspaper but not a good business - The Times is really back to where it was before it started the price war in 1993 - 22nd March Patten and Cameron may be on collision course - In other circumstances I might admire someone with an aversion to TV, but it doesn't seem an ideal qualification in a chairman-designate - 14th March Profits of £878m – and now they're all his - Where Rupert Murdoch is concerned, it is hard to have a rational debate. There are many in politics and the media who have made up their minds that he is a force for evil - 4th March The witch hunt at the Telegraph will backfire - Journalists are gossipy creatures. Some of them are happy to pass on stories which are to the detriment of their own newspapers to journalists on rival titles, or even to Private Eye - 28th February Assange may yet come to hurt The Guardian - The Guardian may not regret getting into bed with this seemingly awful man, but it certainly has no intention of being caught lingering there - 14th February Why Labour is still reaching out to Rupert Mudoch - Ed Miliband's new director of communications has spent much of his working life in one guise or another at the Murdoch-owned Times - 7th February The Sun' can't conceal this scandal forever - Until recently, the Daily Mail also made little of the phone-hacking scandal - 31st January How Rupert Murdoch lost control of his own story - He doesn't need to prove that Brooks knew about phone hacking to conclude that she's not the person to sort out the mess - 28th January (Comment) Does Cameron dare to disappoint Murdoch? - Either accepting or rejecting the bid would have uncomfortable consequences for Mr Cameron - 24th January If Murdoch's so bad, what about Desmond? - Someone calling himself Henry Porter posted a comment below my column last week. It obviously wasn't Henry himself - 17th January Attack Google too, if you value privacy - Google may provide an invaluable service but it actually produces nothing much of value - 10th January The real casualties of The Telegraph's war - The paper should recalibrate its attitude towards politicians, which has become excessively confrontational - 3rd January

Articles: 2010 Who would want to buy The Times? - The Times has been shedding sales faster than its rivals - 20th December Only a spin doctor can save Ed Miliband - His difficulty will lie in persuading a suitable journalist tojoin a ship that could capsize in a year or two - 13th December What Desmond wants, Desmond usually gets - We owe Mr Desmond's leap into respectability to the devout Christian, Tony Blair, and his sidekick, Alastair Campbell - 6th December Committed to transparency, so why the censorship? - Carefully staged release of files is a strange way to promote freedom of speech - 30th November (Comment) Unfinished revolution at The Daily Telegraph - The paper's news pages have become sharper and more interesting - 29th November Go on, Panorama, stick it in the back of the net - If bribes have to be paid and chins tickled to secure the World Cup, I hope that we never get it - 23rd November Cameron should be glad 'The Sun' shone on him - We don't yet know how much his closeness to Mr Murdoch will damage David Cameron's reputation - 16th November This is no way for BBC reporters to behave - Why do these wealthy men talk and act like Arthur Scargill circa 1984? - 7th November Two newspapers, two distinct readerships - I read one edition of i exhaustively having first filleted The Independent, and had little sense of déjà vu - 1st November BBC independence was a mirage - The BBC World Service receives £272m a year from the Foreign Office, but will now be funded by the BBC - 25th October Who are the Tories' friends in the press? - The Mail and The Telegraph believe that they represent the views of many Conservative voters more faithfully than David Cameron - 12th October The Guardian' can't go on like this - The Guardian reportedly fielded 19 journalists at the Labour Party conference in Manchester - 4th October Should Murdoch be granted all of BSkyB? - I can't see a commercial case for blocking this deal, but I can, paradoxically, see a political one - 27th September A prissy judgement by the PCC - Media Studies: Relatively minor lapses of taste do not justify censuring and censoring a columnist - 21st September Don't count on Coulson's fall - All that we have that is new is a 6,000-word piece in The New York Times over the weekend - 6th September Thompson's attack is more than it seems - Mark Thompson, director-general of the BBC, warned that BSkyB (which is controlled by the Murdoch empire) is too powerful, and threatens to "dwarf" the Corporation and its competitors - 30th August I've changed my view on privacy - Those who believe in a free press should be wary of a judiciary increasingly limiting its scope - 23rd August Why is this injunction in the public interest? - Last Thursday The Daily Telegraph reported that Colin Montgomerie, the golfer, who is Europe's captain during this autumn's Ryder Cup in the United States, had used an injunction to prevent the publication of a story about his private life - 16th August Columnists' critics should be named - The internet is supposed to be the great engine of democratic expression. It has broken the old stranglehold of the Press and enables everyone to have a say. Anybody with a view, and the ability to put it into words, can become a blogger, or post comments in response to an article or blog - 9th August Why Sky News has an attitude problem - I do dislike the idea of foreign media moguls doing shady deals with would-be British prime ministers - 6th July Austerity? Not if you work for the BBC - Three days after the toughest Budget in memory, the BBC revealed that 117 of its executives are paid more than the Prime Minister's £142,500 salary - 28th June Journalists and power don't mix - ministers are forever trying to seduce editors and columnists through various forms of flattery - 21st June A welcome addition to our modern cultural landscape - Another eye-catching move from Brand Saatchi, you might say. To create, and then to move on - 2nd July (Comment) This was a perfectly legitimate scoop - Whatever one's speculations about motivation, the point stands... this story was justified in its own right - 31st May Entrapment is a perfectly valid tool - If journalists fret about consequences then we can say goodbye to revealing journalism - 24th May The nearest thing to a one-party press - If the coalition sticks together it will have to be criticised – or praised – together - 17th May Not the result that The Sun wanted - The ferocity of its attacks on Mr Brown were counter-productive - 10th May Times' losses won't be tolerated forever - Rupert Murdoch has heroically endured losses every year since he bought the paper in 1981 - 3rd May Tory papers aren't acting in unison - Until last week the so-called Tory newspapers had been as bored with the election as the voters - 26th April The future of the free press will rest on Murdoch making us pay - In a way, one can't blame Gordon Brown for saying that paywalls won't work - 19th April Press battle lines are reset – but who gets the BBC's vote? - From the moment he was elected Tory leader in December 2005, David Cameron developed a new media strategy - 12th April PCC did not prove Liddle got it wrong - Last week the columnist and former Today programme editor, Rod Liddle, was censured by the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) for writing a blog on The Spectator's website in which he claimed that the "overwhelming majority" of violent crime in London was carried out by young Afro-Caribbean men - 5th April This paper now has a chance to break even - The Guardian's coverage of last week's sale of the two Independent titles to Alexander Lebedev was characteristically charitable. By that I mean characteristically uncharitable. The paper highlighted Mr Lebedev's past as a former KGB agent, and suggested that the sale of the papers for one pound to such a man was somehow a betrayal of their original values - 29th March Giving in to online gagging campaigns is a dangerous move - People are getting the message that the internet in general, and social networking groups in particular, are enabling them to take on a newspaper - 22nd March Did this beauty cause us to drop our standards? - The blogosphere is awash with crazy people with made-up stories. Last week, some of them mistakenly claimed that a man called David Calvert is really Jon Venables, one of the killers of James Bulger. More than 2,000 people joined a group determined to track him down. Mr Calvert was wrongly accused of being a rapist - 15th March Cash for content: is the Guardian as pure as it claims to be? - The Guardian has been chiding other newspapers for not taking seriously its "revelations" about the News of the World and telephone hacking - 8th March This time, will it be The Sun wot hung it? - David Cameron is in some difficulty. The Tories are worried about their shrinking opinion poll lead. Maybe a hung Parliament beckons. Maybe even worse. Who can say? - 22nd February There’s one part of the news-stand that’s still doing serious business - The printed word is dead, we are often told. It is certainly having a hard time in national and regional newspapers, nearly all of which have been losing sales at a dramatic rate. But the printed word in magazines is in a much happier state - 15th February This acquired taste for scooping red-tops could be a risky strategy - Over the years The Sun and its sibling, the News of the World, have published a great many sexual exposures. If there were a Palme d’Or for running such pieces, these two would vie with each other year after year, and no other newspaper would come close - 8th February A ruling that puts claimant lawyers on the defensive - Last Friday’s ruling by Mr Justice Tugendhat which led to revelations about John Terry, the England captain, astonished lawyers and the media - 1st February Newspapers will not be put in the dock over their Iraq war coverage - In the course of the Chilcot inquiry I have sometimes asked myself what it would be like if journalists, rather than politicians and civil servants, were under the cosh. How would we fare? I wonder whether any editor or columnist would be absolutely happy to have his record on the Iraq war examined in forensic detail - 25th January Just what kind of agreement do Cameron and Murdoch have? - Has there been a secret deal between David Cameron and Rupert Murdoch? - 18th January Why Cameron will enjoy a world where the sun always shines - Say what you like about The Sun, once it has declared it will back you it does not renege on the agreement. For years it slavishly supported Tony Blair, enthusiastically endorsing his case for war against Iraq, and underplaying or ignoring the bad news when things began to go wrong after the invasion - 11th January

Articles: 2009 £40m sale of family silver may not go far at ‘The Guardian’ - The Guardian may now be housed in fancy offices near Kings Cross, complete with their own theatre, but its spiritual home is Manchester - 21st December These explosive exchanges will not solve the deeper problems of the British press - Last Tuesday's Daily Telegraph ran a long and exceptionally savage attack on The Guardian - 14th December Would the press have reported Tiger’s sex life if he were British? - Anyone who reads a newspaper will know rather more about the sex life of the golfer Tiger Woods than he or she bargained for, or perhaps wanted. Every newspaper, with the exception of the Financial Times, gave the story wall to wall coverage. Readers of the Guardian and The Times have been provided with almost as much information about Mr Woods' various affairs as readers of the Daily Mail or the Sun - 7th December Telegraph's new hardman finishes Barclay revolution - The appointment of Tony Gallagher as editor of the Daily Telegraph confirms his dominance of the paper. It was he, rather than Will Lewis, the nominal editor, who largely oversaw the Telegraph's coverage of the MPs' expenses scandal - 30th November Cameron will offer no help to Murdoch in his media war - After The Sun’s recent attack on Gordon Brown over his illegible letter to the mother of a soldier killed in Afghanistan, the Prime Minister had what he described as a “very friendly” telephone conversation with the paper’s owner, Rupert Murdoch - 23rd November Murdoch's cheerleading for Labour is being forgotten - During Rupert Murdoch's long affair with New Labour, there were a few people on the left who went on expressing their loathing for the old rogue. The Guardian's Polly Toynbee springs to mind - 16th November The Guardian's phone-tapping scandal sunk by lack of evidence - I can still remember the exultant, almost mystical, look on Kirsty Wark's face as she announced that The Guardian was about to reveal a major scandal involving phone tapping and Rupert Murdoch - 9th November The sound and fury of the mob can never be a substitute for measured and reasoned debate - Last week was not a happy one for the media. It was a week in which the voice of the mob tended to drown out the voice of reason. First there was Jan Moir, and then there was Nick Griffin - 2nd November The sound and fury of the mob can never be a substitute for measured and reasoned debate - Last week was not a happy one for the media. It was a week in which the voice of the mob tended to drown out the voice of reason. First there was Jan Moir, and then there was Nick Griffin - 26th October This injunction shows a real lack of respect for the freedom of the press - Super-injunctions are much more oppressive than a traditional court order - 19th October Not biased, just too nice: Is Davis quite the right man for Today? - Twittering is a new political weapon. Once, if you did not like some aspect of the BBC, you would say so openly. Norman Tebbit attacked it for bias. So did Alastair Campbell. Last week Ben Bradshaw, the Culture Secretary, twittered his disapproval of the Today programme's allegedly soft interviews of leading Tories - 12th October What are the chances for the country's first quality freesheet? - The news that the London Evening Standard is to be given away free from next Monday is mind-boggling - 5th October This admission of guilt might be an own goal by the press - Nine out of ten people will probably sympathise with England's football manager, Fabio Capello, who has received an apology from two newspapers after being photographed on holiday on a beach - 28th September When an editor's ambitions were too grandiose - The notion that The Guardian would close The Observer, or turn it into a weekly magazine, always seemed unlikely - 21st September The latest editor graduate of Bizarre's school of celebrity sex - As Christ Church, Oxford, used to be a forcing house for future great British statesmen, so the Bizarre celebrity gossip column on The Sun has become the traditional nursery for editors of national red-tops - 31st August A vicious press war with no real victors - In the London freesheet war between Rupert Murdoch and Associated Newspapers, I used to think that Associated would blink first - 24th August This so-called citizen journalism could force politicians to clam up - In the way that one harbours prejudices against MPs one barely knows, I have long marked down Alan Duncan, the shadow leader of the House, in my mind - 17th August I fear that this BBC benevolence is a cynical act of self-promotion - There have always been critics of the BBC on the Right, but in recent months the Corporation has come under a sustained fusillade from many quarters - 10th August I fear that this BBC benevolence is a cynical act of self-promotion - There have always been critics of the BBC on the Right, but in recent months the Corporation has come under a sustained fusillade from many quarters - 3rd August Even the saintliest of journalists are not above using outside help - Nearly three weeks ago The Guardian filled many pages, and the BBC used up much airtime, with allegations about the News Of The World. The paper had discovered that the Sunday red-top had paid more than £1m to three people after hacking into their mobile phones - 27th July Desmond's low-price Star piles pressure on paralysed Mirror - Readers of this column may not be very familiar with the Daily Star. They may even be unaware of it. The paper is nonetheless read by more of our fellow countrymen than The Times - 20th July The BBC has conspired with The Guardian to heat up an old story and attack Murdoch - How do stories emerge in the media? Some people believe reporters simply write down what happens. I’d say it was a bit more complicated than that. Take, for example, the recent hysteria over News of the World journalists hacking into the mobile phones of celebrities - 13th July Even the young were bemused by this extraordinary media hysteria - Not since Princess Diana died have the media gone so wild. The death of Michael Jackson has provoked much breathless coverage on the BBC and commercial channels, in the qualities and the tabloids. Every aspect of his childhood, career and dying has been exhaustively examined - 6th July Murdoch gambles on the ultimate insider - Rebekah Wade – or Rebekah Brooks, as she now mostly calls herself following her recent marriage to Charlie – very much wanted to be chief executive of News International. Rupert Murdoch, the 78-year-old controlling shareholder of the parent company News Corp, is evidently besotted with her. Rebekah has got what she craved - 29th June An Iraq inquiry should examine Murdoch’s role - Some newspapers, various ex-generals and assorted other worthies have complained about the Government’s decision to hold an inquiry into the Iraq war in private - 22nd June Is The Guardian attempting to appoint the next Prime Minister? - Was The Guardian somehow involved in the failed putsch against Gordon Brown? Was even the BBC? - 15th June Will Rupert enjoy this modern tale of Antony and Cleopatra? - Rebekah Wade, editor of Britain's best selling daily newspaper The Sun, is known neither by her readers nor the general public. She has always avoided appearing on radio or television to defend her paper, or to offer an opinion about the state of the world - 8th June David Montgomery's surrender doesn't mean that the press has lost the war - The other day a very senior and successful Fleet Street figure told me that in 15 years there will only be two national newspapers: The Sun and the Daily Mail. All the rest will disappear under a burden of debt, after years of making losses - 1st June With fewer friends, the BBC may yet be reined in by the Tories - The Tories’ attempt to freeze a £3 increase in the BBC licence fee was easily outvoted by Labour and the Lib Dems last week in the House of Commons. The Tories do not seem particularly upset, and one could easily regard the episode as a bit of sabre rattling that will soon be forgotten - 25th May Scoop on MPs' expenses is a triumph for the Telegraph - Over the past few years I have written some harsh things about The Daily Telegraph. I don't withdraw them. It has sometimes seemed to me that so tumultuous has been the changeover of staff that the paper has lost sight of its old values - 18th May The press must stop this lunacy of giving content away for free - Not charging readers of online newspapers does seem barmy. It is damaging newsprint sales and depriving publishers of millions of pounds of revenue - 11th May This unexpected farewell could signal a new era at the 'Daily Mail' - Deputy Editors are often not especially important figures. They fill in when editors are on holiday, and otherwise do the boring jobs which their bosses don't want to do - 4th May Too close for comfort: How the 'Telegraph' mishandled McBride - The story about Damian McBride's smears of leading Tories has been interpreted largely in political terms. It also casts a fascinating light on the general workings of the press, and in particular on the relationship between The Daily Telegraph, a Tory newspaper, and No 10 - 27th April So farewell then Paul Johnson, struck down in his prime - There are still columnists I always read in The Spectator: Taki, who grows more reflective and original with age; Charles Moore's diary; Matthew Parris when on form; and Paul Johnson - 13th April Muslim extremists and a bitter schism in left-wing journalism - True papers of record give due credit, even to fierce rivals - 6th April The Sun rises as the web grows, but there's still little sign of profit - Since newspapers make little or no money out of their websites, it is tempting to ignore the latest Audit Bureau of Circulations Electronic figures, which register soaring online usage. But however unprofitable websites may be, newspapers are pouring vast resources and energy into them, and some are achieving extraordinary results - 30th March The Guardian's coverage of tax is obsessive but not compulsive - If there are any young psychologists looking around for a subject for a PhD thesis, may I suggest a subject? It would be something along the lines of "Guilt, expiation or displacement at The Guardian" - 23rd March Should we worry that Ofcom's new boss has a black mark on her copybook? - Last week Colette Bowe took over as the new chairman of Ofcom. When her appointment was announced last December, the Financial Times ran a story suggesting that "she is best known for her role as the government press officer who leaked details of the Westland affair" - 16th March This is one election that will not be decided by the newspapers - As he slips further below the water, Gordon Brown is personally telephoning editors more than he has ever done before, trying to make sense for them of the bewildering array of Government initiatives, and to convince them that everything will turn out for the best. It all looks a bit desperate, and I don't suppose it will do him much good - 9th March Ageing Rupert's shrewd general bales out in the nick of time - Peter Chernin may not be a name on every baby's lips, but as number two to Rupert Murdoch he is a very powerful man. Last week, he announced his resignation after 12 years in his present job at News Corp - 2nd March This celebration of ordinariness by the media leaves me bemused - What goes around comes around: Sarah Sands is back at the Standard - 23rd February How did ITV possibly become one sixth of the size of BSkyB? - Much ink has been split recently over the future of Channel 4. Should it stay the same, or merge with channel Five, or be folded into BBC Worldwide? There is, in fact, a much bigger question which has scarcely been addressed. It concerns ITV. Does it have a future? - 16th February Let's be proud of our press – it's probably the best in the world - A group called Media Standards Trust publishes a report today which argues that newspapers are increasingly inaccurate and, as a result, enjoy diminishing public confidence - 9th February Why all newspapers need faithful and benevolent guardians - From the moment of its birth, people have been trying to kill off The Independent. On the day before its launch, Max Hastings, then editor of The Daily Telegraph, sent a bottle of champagne to our offices in City Road, wishing us luck and promising to "bury" us - 2nd February It's Lebedev or bust for ailing Standard - My God, can this be happening? What can Viscount Rothermere, DMGT's controlling shareholder, be thinking of – selling the 181-year-old Standard to an ex-KGB Russian oligarch with an allegedly playboy son? - 19th January The Big Apple’s Gray Lady is not on her death bed just yet - The New York Times may be pompous and self-regarding, but it is also authoritative, serious minded and generally fair - 13th January This man is authoritarian and repressive in anyone's language - This is a story involving Channel 4, the BBC and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran - 5th January

Articles: 2008 What's happening to 'The Daily Telegraph' is a national tragedy - 22nd December 2008 (see: The disembowelled Daily Telegraph: why it should not be another Daily Mail - Roy Greenslade) Are Cameron's friends in the right-wing press deserting him? - Mr Cameron's difficulties with The Times reflect those he has with the entire non-left-wing press - 15th December 2008 I fear a deeper agenda behind the bloodletting at the Telegraph - The two most prominent journalists dismissed are wunderkind Sam Leith, literary editor and columnist, and Andrew McKie, its obituaries editor. A strong case can be made for the books pages and the obituaries being the paper's finest adornments, and yet the two men responsible for them have been sacked - 8th December 2008 The 'Sun King' is 77 and he can't go on for ever. But can his children keep the empire? - What will happen to Rupert Murdoch's vast media empire when he dies, or goes senile? - 1st December 2008 Put that revolver away, these may be hard times but Mr Murdoch sees a rainbow... - It is very easy for anyone working in newspapers at the moment to sink into a near-suicidal depression. Last week was about as bad as could be, with several newspapers groups announcing redundancies - 24th November 2008 Hating the ‘Mail’ is one thing, hailing Mr Justice Eady another - The Guardian and the Daily Mail hate, and are fascinated by, each other. Scarcely a week passes without a missile erupting out of one camp, aimed at the other. In any other walk of life, Norwegian peace negotiators would have been brought in, and innumerable UN Security Council resolutions passed - 17th November 2008 ‘If DMGT buys this paper, I’ll eat a copy of it, alongside one of the Daily Mail’ - With serious problems at the Standard the last thing in the world that DMGT needs is a title with not dissimilar difficulties - 10th November 2008 A new battle between generations threatens to undermine the BBC’s values - Last week’s row concerning Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand could be described as a culture war between those who respect traditional standards of decency, and those who don’t. It could be more precisely represented as a culture war in which the over 45s and the under 30s are pitted against one another - 3rd November 2008 When you are a defender of democracy, beware the servant of many masters - The story involving George Osborne, Peter Mandelson, Oleg Deripaska and Nat Rothschild may seem fiendishly complicated, but there is a key which, once inserted in the right place, unlocks a great deal. The key is PR - 27th October 2008 We can't expect our columnists always to predict the future - Does it matter if columnists make incorrect predictions? - 20th October 2008 When push comes to crunch, should one man have the power to bring down a bank? - The BBC’s business editor, Robert Peston, is probably the most powerful British journalist I have known in my lifetime - 13th October 2008 It has its faults, but we should be proud of the British press - 6th October 2008 The Prof should put his sniping to one side and look closer to home - on Roy Greenslade's criticism of The Independent makeover - 29th September 2008 How easy it is to slip on a banana skin when your nose is in the air - 22nd September 2008 Britain's quality newspapers are still cheap, despite the price rises - 15th September 2008 A periodical reminder of why the press needs to get more serious - 18th August 2008 Press were wrong on Iraq - Why won't the British press come clean about its mistakes over Iraq? - 11th August 2008 Miliband needs editors on his side if he is to realise his political ambitions - 4th August 2008 Murat's victory should serve as a warning to the entire British press (see: Murat and Malinka - Wikipedia) - 21st July 2008 State newspapers are rivalling the free press – right under your nose - 14th July 2008 Newspapers are not as troubled as this barking mad City believes - 7th July 2008 Why young Mr Murdoch might be right to keep Sundays sacred (see: James Murdoch - Wikipedia) - 30th June 2008 Cult of youth widens generation gap between editors and readers - 23rd June 2008 When the media play politics they lose even a veneer of impartiality - 16th June 2008 A redesign that leads down a blind alley? - 9th June 2008 Dumping 'What the Papers Say' is a sign BBC is losing sight of its remit - 2nd June 2008 Just Boris: London's mayor is like a hungry boy in the tuck shop - 19th May 2008 Is the freedom of the press at risk because of J K Rowling? - 12th May 2008 Why this report of columnists' influence is greatly exaggerated - 5th May 2008 Gordon tries to woo the press, but may find himself left at the altar - 28th April 2008 There are times when it is entirely right for proprietors to intervene - 21st April 2008 The case against the 'Guardian': muddle, exaggeration, hypocrisy - 14th April 2008 If this Bill is passed, it could mean the end of investigative journalism by Donald Trelford - 31st March 2008 Laughter from beyond the grave...and a headache for the Barclays - 24th March 2008 It's not always right for the press to put police chiefs under investigation by Donald Trelford - 17th March 2008 Murdoch's presses prove there's plenty of life left in the printed word - 10th March 2008 Discretion was certainly the better part of valour in this unique case - 3rd March 2008 Why the Bridgend suicides can't be blamed on the messenger - 25th February 2008 These reporters should wage their war in the press, not the law courts - 18th February 2008 The national media have at last woken up to the charges of corruption and cronyism against the administration of Ken Livingstone - 11th February 2008 Damning allegations that, if true, bring disgrace upon ‘The Observer’ - 4th February 2008 Non-interfering, anti-celebrity – is Murdoch the Dalai Lama of media? - 28th January 2008 Has Andrew Neil reduced the role of his editor to that of a spectator? - 21st January 2008 ‘The Sun’ is on the wane and it can't all be blamed on the internet - 14th January 2008 Why slightly spooky Monty may not quite cut it over here - 7th January 2008

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Articles: 2009 The sad truth is our MPs are second rate. Until their quality improves, nothing will ever change - 3rd June 2009 A diminutive egomaniac, the stain of Nazi collaboration and why the French can't forgive us for saving them in the War - 27th May 2009 Why do I worry that Mr Cameron increasingly reminds me of that other 'straight kinda guy'? - 26th May 2009 Constitutional change? I wouldn't trust this lot to reform a parish council - 20th May 2009 They don't mean 'sorry'... and they are only paying back the money for one reason - 13th May 2009 Why can't the BBC understand that we are STILL a Christian country? - 12th May 2009 Boris has proved he's no dummy. So - after the waxwork - watch out Mr Cameron - 6th May 2009 What are you ashamed of Ms Winslet... there is absolutely nothing wrong with being middle class - 29th April 2009 Capitalism and the danger of lionising this working class hero - The name of Jack Jones, who died on Tuesday evening at the age of 96, will mean nothing to many millions of Britons. Yet, 35 years ago, he was arguably the most powerful man in this country - 23rd April 2009 Why CAN'T Gordon say sorry? - The Labour MP Gerald Kaufman famously described his party's 1983 manifesto as the longest suicide note in history. Gordon Brown's letter this week to the Tory MP Nadine Dorries could yet turn out to be one of the shorter suicide notes in history - 15th April 2009 Bullying, lies and a modern monster with the power to subvert democracy - The row over the repulsive emails which came out of No10 is seen as evidence that New Labour's culture of spin and dirty tricks is alive and well under Gordon Brown - 14th April 2009 Far from being the solution, Lord Myners is the unacceptable face of capitalism - Whatever their differences, the G20 leaders all agree that there needs to be more and better financial regulation, and that all countries must combine to proscribe international tax havens. How bizarre, then, that the Government minister who will have the greatest individual responsibility for ensuring that regulation is effective is someone who has made an enormous amount of money in unregulated markets, and has personally and corporately made extensive use of tax havens - 2nd April 2009 Fred the Shred's an easy target, but we should all beware of the nihilists of the Left... itching to reduce this country to anarchy - Sitting comfortably in your own house, it is tempting to feel pretty relaxed at the news of the vandalising of Sir Fred Goodwin's home in Edinburgh, as well as the damage caused to his car. Didn't he rather deserve it? Isn't he one of those filthy-rich bankers who is responsible for the ever-deepening recession? - 25th March 2009 Yes, sometimes I feel like killing Sir Fred Goodwin. But the witch-hunt against him is letting Labour off the hook - Like everyone else, I am very happy to hate Sir Fred Goodwin, the former chief executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland. The mere sight of him is sickening. After a drink or two, I almost feel like killing him - 18th March 2009 So where is the justice in judges being allowed to keep their wrongdoings secret? - Of all the groups of powerful people in this country, least of all is known about those who administer justice on our behalf - 16th March 2009 A privacy law would suit Mr Mosley very nicely. Like his father he does not believe in freedom - Max Mosley is a remarkable man. One has to admire him in a way. Last year, the head of international motor racing was filmed by the News of the World taking part in an orgy with five prostitutes - 11th March 2009 Why do we honour those who loathe Britain? - Twice this week I have been reminded of a peculiar quality of the British. We love to praise, honour and reward those who don't really like us - who may indeed hate us - 6th March 2009 Dumbed down and badly run, but ITV must be saved to challenge a smug, bloated, Leftie BBC - Owning an ITV franchise was a 'licence to print money'. So said Lord Thompson of Fleet back in the 1950s - 4th March 2009 The minutes are irrelevant - Tony Blair's junta made a mockery of Cabinet government - Jack Straw seems unaware of how absurd he has become. Without any sense of irony, the Justice Minister stands up in the House of Commons and vetoes the release of the minutes of Cabinet meetings concerning the decision to invade Iraq in March 2003 - 26th February 2009 Does anyone really believe that Ms Jowell didn't know a thing about her husband's bribery money? - A Cabinet minister's joint home loan with her husband is partly paid off with an illegal bribe of £350,000. It sounds a serious story. It is a serious story. But you wouldn't think so to judge by the BBC's coverage - 18th February 2009 We welcome those who preach terror and death. So why ban an idiotic Dutch MP with noxious yet non-violent views? - Should we care that an apparently kooky Far-Right Dutch MP of whom we have never heard has been banned from entering this country? Much as we abhor his beliefs, I believe we should - 11th February 2009 The BBC is now run by a narrow sect, blind to the good sense and values of those it serves - 4th February 2009 Have we all BIN conned? Recycling's the new state religion but once again it's been exposed as a sham - 29th January 2009 Brilliant he may be, but for his own good don’t forget that Obama’s a man, not a superman - 22nd January 2009 Forget Harry's gaffe or Charles's chum 'Sooty'. THIS is the brutal new face of racism in Britain - 15th January 2009 Yes, things are bad but we must not talk ourselves into a worse crisis than we've already got - 8th January 2009 Yes, Israel has been sorely provoked. But there can only be one winner if it carries on like this - 1st January 2009

Articles: 2008 Pontificating Mr Peston, self-indulgent bloggers, and why the BBC should stop putting opinion before facts - 28th December 2008 With Labour resurgent and the Bullingdon boys in trouble, I have a suggestion for Dave: Bring back Ken Clarke - 17th December 2008 None of us wants to be kept alive for ever. But we must never give the state the power to finish us off - 10th December 2008 One in 10 children maltreated? - No, this is ideology dressed up as science - with the cynical aim of undermining family life... - 4th December 2008 Devoid of common sense, what IS wrong with Britain's police chiefs? - One of the most disturbing developments in Britain over the past 30 years has been the loss of confidence which many ordinary law-abiding citizens have in our police - 2nd December 2008 No longer will we need to watch Life On Mars to relive the drab poverty and political bankruptcy of the Seventies - We are heading towards an economic meltdown which will recall, and may equal, that awful decade. In some ways, it is as though the boom years of the Thatcher and Blair eras had never been - 27th November 2008 Don't let the BNP fool us into turning them into martyrs - The BNP's leaders would love the party to be persecuted because they could then portray themselves as a harried and unjustly treated minority overborne by a bullying state - 19th November 2008 Our self-interest must rule the new 'special relationship' - not the vanity and money lust of the Blair era - 6th November 2008 Lewis Hamilton is an inspirational figure - but where are the black Britons who could one day be our Obama? - 4th November 2008 How could a man of such high morals preside over the BBC's descent into the gutter - Man of morals, but the BBC's director-general Mark Thompson was slow to respond to the furore surround Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross's prank calls - 30th October 2008 While the BBC's knives are out for Osborne, Mandy is getting away with murder - 23rd October 2008 God help us. This will soon be a country more spied upon than Communist East Germany under the Stasi - 16th October 2008 The lie that lays bare the rank corruption of the Blair years - information has just been released under the Freedom of Information Act. It shows beyond any scintilla of a doubt that Mr Blair lied over the Bernie Ecclestone Affair in November 1997 - 15th October 2008 Ten reasons why we can look on the bright side - Will the Government's emergency measures to save our banks avert a financial apocalypse? No one really knows, even if catastrophe is avoided, no one can doubt that we are in for a very rough time - 9th October 2008 What sort of society have we become when a good Samaritan is kicked to death and a suicidal man jeered by a mob? - 2nd October 2008 It's lucky for Mr Brown that his Cabinet is full of nitwits straight out of Enid Blyton - but where does that leave the country? - 25th September 2008 Labour has done many shameful things but this surely is the worst - It has refused to grant the right of residence to some 2,000 former Gurkhas who served in the British Army before 1997 - 18th September 2008 God, taxpayers' money and the day a barmy BBC went into orbit - whatever discoveries may be made, we may be reasonably sure that the Large Hadron Collider will not live up to the reverential billing it has enjoyed in some quarters, most notably the BBC. - 15th September 2008 Give me fat Tories who believe in freedom, not these nannying ninnies! - 28th August 2008 Another pyramid of piffle and Boris's Olympian ambition - 20th August 2008 Grace, modesty and national pride - what these Olympic heroes can teach the oiks of football (and our posturing politicians) - 18th August 2008 Shamed by the loss of empire, Russia is a wounded bear we provoke at our grave peril - 11th August 2008 A literary giant whose courage put today's pygmy authors to shame - 7th August 2008 He may look like a junior geography master, but Miliband has gone nuclear - 31st July 2008 No-one has voted for a privacy law - but that is exactly what we're getting - 25th July 2008 Peaches, and why we're no longer shocked by the slatternly behaviour of C-list women celebrities - 24th July 2008 Is Glasgow East going to be New Labour's graveyard? - 23rd July 2008 The Left claim 'chav' is a term of class hatred. Nonsense. It's today's tragic underclass they should be fighting for - 17th July 2008 How the Max Mosley case gets right to the heart of the privacy vs morality debate - 10th July 2008 Fat-cat pay. Gold-plated pensions. And now BONUSES for senior civil servants. What madness is this? - 8th July 2008 The church of navel-gazers - 8th July 2008 Forget West Lothian ... The Andy Murray question tells us everything we need to know about the Union - 3rd July 2008 Invading other countries is almost always wrong. Faced with genocide in Zimbabwe, it may be the only right thing to do - 26th June 2008 Gay priests, marrying, a smirking Prince and this insidious cult of self - 19th June 2008 Golden chance for Mr Brown - 12th June 2008 No wonder politicians are so utterly incompetent. None of them has ever held down a real job - 5th June 2008 Heavens! Just what's going on when even the BBC can be nice about Mary Whitehouse? - 29th May Yes, the headlines are certainly bleak...but we're not all doomed yet - 15th May 2008 Venal, degrading and spiteful. This glut of self-serving memoirs tells us everything about New Labour - 13th May 2008 I never thought I'd say this, but Mr Brown needs to get in touch with his softer side - 8th May 2008 Why despite his flaws (and there are many), a Boris victory could be just what Britain needs - 1st May 2008 His seedy antics don't really matter - his squeals for a privacy law do - 24th April 2008 Why have our police lost their common sense? - 24th April 2008 I sympathise with bulimics but I'm deeply suspicious of Mr Prescott's lurid soul-baring - Sunday 20th April 2008 William, a helicopter - and this risk to the monarchy - 17th April 2008 I'm not starry eyed about the old nationalised industries. But the truth is firms like BT are still just as maddening - 10th April 2008 Never let it be forgotten that it was the British Left who gave succour to the monstrous Mr Mugabe - 3rd April 2008 Why we can never be best friends with France - 27th March 2008 A man of morals and a U-turn that need never have happened - 25th March 2008 Cowardice, failure and shamefully incompetent Defence Secretary - 20th March 2008 Vulgar, nasty and a roaring success - how football is a perfect symbol of what Britain - 13th March 2008 When are you going to tell us what you believe in, Dave? - 6th March 2008 I'd give the Government my DNA - if only I could trust them - 28th February 2008 Appalling showman he may be, but Al Fayed has done us all a favour - 21st February 2008 Tyranny of recycling leaves us like criminals in our own homes - 14th February 2008 The Archbishop of Canterbury is a batty old booby, but dangerous with it - 7th February 2008 How did we allow Britain to become a Stasi state? - 7th February 2008 It's a troubling thought, but was Tony Blair thinking of his bank balance when he backed Bush? - 31st January 2008 Insensitive and unduly provocative? A mosque's call to prayer amid Oxford's spires - 24th January 2008 Come along, Mr Brown ... if Hain is incompetent, just sack him - 17th January 2008 Bolshie unions. Rocketing oil prices. An old socialist in No 10. So are we really heading back to the Seventies? - 10th January 2008 Round the clock drinking ... and the disturbing dithering of Mr Brown - 3rd January 2008

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