PRESS STATEMENT Press TV 20th January 2012 OFCOM HAS REVOKED Press TV Limited’s Television Licensable Content Service licence. It means that the British public can no longer watch Press TV on BSkyB’s Sky platform. Press TV International has released the following statement: The British government’s media regulatory body, Ofcom, has banned Press TV’s broadcast in

A week that began with an insane decision from the European Court of Human Rights has come to an end with a sensible decision from Ofcom. The Iranian government’s propaganda channel in London, Press TV, has just had its license to broadcast revoked. Insomniac Islamists will no longer be able to enjoy their weekly dose of programmes presented by the likes of Lauren Booth, Tariq Ramadan or Der...

It is time for the simple debate to end and all out war to begin. The Edison bulb bannings by the global class of intellectual Aristocrats is the step too far. To assist all in declaring their allegiance I have generated this handy war logo which could double as a war pennant: Down with the Greens! Graphic: copyright Dale Amon, Released under Creative Commons license....

Angela Smith is asking for your views for the BBC consultation Delivering Quality First. The television license fee has been frozen until 2017, resulting in a real-terms cut over the next few years. As a result, the BBC Trust has launched a consultation to ascertain where the public feel the cuts should be best delivered. Commenting, Angela Smith MP said; "The BBC, like all public services, has be...

Ivan Lewis, the shadow culture secretary, was accused last night of making the "fastest U-turn in history" after abandoning a proposal to license journalists.

Ivan Lewis, shadow culture secretary, appears to retreat on a proposal to license journalists

“In Britain, a free press is non-negotiable,” Ivan Lewis has just said – before suggesting ways that Government might, ahem, oversee this freedom. The shadow culture secretary has an idea: a register system to license journalists. “As in other professions, the industry should consider whether people guilty of gross malpractice should be struck off,” he said. He wants ...

The Government has pledged to scrap "nonsense" licensing rules which mean that Punch and Judy shows, school plays and piano players in pubs require special entertainment permits.

A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs treat them like a license to behave like an asshole. - Frank Zappa...

The news that Neil Wallis was informally advising Andy Coulson without the knowledge of any of the other senior figures in the Tory party is a reminder of just how dysfunctional the Tory party machine was pre-election. It is also an indication of the license that Coulson was afforded. The Tories cannot say if anyone else offered Coulson this kind of ‘informal advice’. The Tories are st...