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PART ONE: The Commons Agrees – for now. Members of Parliament speak with one voice rarely. One of those occasions was in 2011 when the House of Commons Chamber listened intently to the Prime Minister, ...
Today’s election result shows the electorate have delivered a decisive majority in favour of press reform. The Labour, Liberal Democrat, SNP, PC and Green Parties all have a history of supporting the ...
The team and I believe that the traditional model of local newspapers is no longer sustainable, as journalists are often required to churn out excessive numbers of stories each day to reach arbitrary ...
The Government has announced plans to undermine the Leveson system of independent press regulation, by repealing the legislation known as “section 40” in the King’s Speech. Section 40 underpins ...
Hacked Off and Byline Times held a fringe event at the Labour Party Conference, to address what a future Labour Government might do to raise press standards. The striking theme which emerged from the ...
For years, the Government and parts of the press have repeated a toxic libel against British men described as Pakistanis or of Pakistani heritage: that the grooming, abuse and rape of girls and young ...
The revelation that the Daily Mail are attaching Black names and faces to racist articles which have been ghost-written by other journalists – who, based on the make up of most UK newsrooms, are ...
The Sun last night released a statement in light of the news that Huw Edwards is not facing police action, and has been hospitalised with a mental health crisis. “BBC SEX PROBE: Top BBC star who ‘paid ...
Earlier this week the MailOnline published an article featuring detailed commentary, videos and images of an actress experiencing what appears to be a moment of acute mental illness. There is no ...
awaits the result of its own case. The Duke of Sussex’s action against the publisher of the Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday and Mail Online is being considered by Mr Justice Nicklin, with a decision ...
In 2011, the phone hacking scandal made it impossible for the Government to ignore the issue of press standards. The Leveson Inquiry was established, which investigated the collapse in ethical ...
Please note this is Hacked Off’s old website, and it will soon be archived.Take me to the new… Hacked Off campaigns for meaningful reform of UK press self-regulation, ensuring that the victims of ...