Leveson inquiry

• The day the circus came to town
  Posted on November 28, 2012 by Louise Restell
  Any regular readers of this blog, and I guess there must be a couple of you, may have noticed that I have cleverly managed to avoid writing about the Leveson inquiry into the culture, practice and ethics of the press. This is not so much because of a lack of interest on my part, although at times the saturation coverage was tedious in the extreme, but because I genuinely had no idea what I thought about it all.
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  Posted in: Uncategorised
  Tagged: Leveson inquiry, freedom of the press, statutory regulation, Press Complaints Commission, phone hacking
• No more heroes anymore
  Posted on October 25, 2012 by Louise Restell
  You should never meet your heroes, there is only one possible outcome. At best you will be disappointed they seem indifferent to your adulation; at worst they will turn out to be shorter, balder or scruffier than you expected, have bad breath or be downright rude.
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  Tagged: Jimmy Savile, Lance Armstrong, Leveson inquiry, libel reform, Defamation Bill, mandatory reporting, child abuse, heroes