by admin | Jul 16, 2021 | nuj, Tributes
Mick Gosling a friend and comrade for many years died on 7 April. His funeral was held at St Marylebone Crematorium, in North London on 19 April. For many years we were both members of the NUJ Press and PR Branch in London which Mick chaired, and I was secretary....
by admin | Apr 28, 2021 | Campaigns, Government, nuj, Press, Reviews
The other day I came across a surprising quotation from Sir Alan Moses (see below in paragraph 5). He was the first head of the Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso), the latest incarnation of what passes for a UK press regulator. Ipso came into being...
by admin | Mar 23, 2021 | Campaigns, Government, unions
Today, 23 March 2021 will go down in history as the day when a titanic struggle for justice finally came to an end. On that day the Court of Appeal overturned the convictions of 14 men sentenced for their involvement in picketing during the 1972 national building...
by admin | Mar 18, 2021 | BBC, Campaigns, media ownership, nuj, Public Service Broadcasting
The Media Reform Coalition (MRC) marked the launch of its Media Democracy Festival this week (see: https://www.mediareform.org.uk/blog/media-democracy-festival-2021) by publishing a new report on media ownership in the UK. It makes depressing, although predictable,...
by admin | Feb 19, 2021 | Europe, Government, international
‘I believe the Union is over-democratised.’ Herman van Rumpuy EU President from 2009 to 2014 (quoted by Perry Anderson in ‘The European Coup’ London Review of Books, 17 December 2020) I was fourteen at the time when on 3 February 1960, Prime Minister and old Etonian...
