Today’s (slightly longer than usual) extract from The phone hacking scandal: journalism on trial* is by Phil Harding, author of the BBC’s editorial guidelines when he was controller of editorial policy. Harding, a former editor of the Today programme and deputy editor of Panorama, asks: what is journalism in...
Kira Cochrane ‘I decided I wasn’t going to be afraid of the chamber, and I would make sure I spoke regularly’ … Jo Swinson MP. Photograph: Linda Nylind for the Guardian On the way to meet Jo Swinson I’m still unsure what to make of the Lib Dem MP’s campaign for body confidence. Is this a gutsy,...
‘I’m still the same person the Guardian used to eulogise when I was a young MP,” says Robert Kilroy-Silk. “On all the liberal issues I am the Guardian man. I believe in a woman’s right to choose, I’m opposed to the death penalty, I’m anti any form of discrimination against women, I believe in...
