The Daily Epxress on Wednesday gave a platform to Anne Widdecombe to peddle her 'cure gay people' mantra. You can read it here. Not only is this a breach of the ethical standards of journalism, it is an incitement to anti-gay verbal and physical attacks.

Turning round a story is one of the most difficult tasks in journalism – and rarely more so than in the case of Iran. Iran, the dark revolutionary Islamist menace. Shia Iran, protector and manipulator of World Terror, of Syria and Lebanon and Hamas and Hezbollah. Ahmadinejad, the Mad Caliph. And, of course, Nuclear Iran, preparing to destroy Israel in a mushroom cloud of anti-Semitic hatred,...

One diplomat told The Daily Telegraph: “The BBC has to make amends, particularly to assuage the hurt sentiment of a very large number of people. “We understand the free press – they are welcome to explain and to challenge as long as it is fair and above the belt. Can this pass as acceptable journalism?

My friend Nick Mathiason works for the Bureau of Investigative Journalism where he has exposed a new type of tax avoidance activity centred on the City of London over the weekend. He wrote this over the weekend in a story that also featured in the Observer...

A PHILOSOPHY FOOTBALL SEASONAL BOOKSHELF Philosophy Football co-founder Mark Perryman reveals the 2011 books that have helped inspire the company’s T-shirt production line this year. The quality newspapers fill pages and pages this time of year with assorted celebs selecting their various books of the year. Cheap and predictable journalism. It’s the same faces year after year,

Jules Stenson, who was Head of Features at the News of the World, and the Guardian journalist Nick Davies have clashed on Newsnight over whose publication was guilty of "shoddy journalism".

Welcome to the world of journalism, Nick Davies. So the cops in Surrey told you the story was true — or so you claim. The cops at the Yard told you it was true — or so you claim. Every aching bone in your reporter’s anti-Murdoch body told you it was true. But there was a problem — as we all now know today. The Milly Dowler story that led The Guardian on that fateful day bac...

Via, this idiocy: This could be Cameron’s opening. Given the trouble he is going to be in anyway – with his sceptics, if he agrees to the proposed treaty amendments without agreeing to a referendum, and with business, if he effectively accepts Britain’s relegation to a lower financial league – he should summarily end the

“I certainly think it’s a serious problem and I described it when we last discussed this as a canker on the body politic and I would stay with that,” said Jesse Norman on the World at One earlier today. The Bureau of Investigative Journalism’s sting, splashed by this morning’s Independent, of executives from lobbying/PR firm Bell Pottinger boasting of their influence ...

Former Downing Street director of communications Alastair Campbell said the press is "frankly putrid in many of its elements".