The Press Recognition Panel, the state body set up to ‘oversee regulation of the press’ after the Leveson Inquiry and endorse regulators (of which there is only one), is using Jason Arday’s death to push for the state to regulate the press more tightly. In come the campaigns…
The PRP is a state body established under Royal Charter, contrary to the historic principle that the press is not licensed. It would be massively empowered under a Leveson 2 media clampdown but has so far only approved Fleet Street-hating Impress as a state-backed regulator because most of the press has signed up to their own one, Ipso. Not enough for the liberty-haters…
In a statement on the Arday affair:
“Government should now join up the media accountability landscape and create meaningful incentives for publishers to participate in independently assessed regulation. That does not mean giving ministers any role in deciding what the press can publish or how complaints are handled. Regulation would remain independent of Government and the press industry, as the Royal Charter requires.
The proposed trusted-news prominence regime offers an immediate opportunity. Access to prominence and other public, commercial or platform-based benefits should be linked to participation in the Recognition System through an Approved Regulator, with the same principle applied across legislation affecting news publishers.”
‘Incentives’ is choice language. The stick and stick approach…
Amnesty, the ultimate activist charity, has also backed state regulation. As the dullard left loves to say: When someone tells who they are – believe them…
Jolyon’s Good Law Project is calling for an inquiry and stringent action, while the Greens and Zack Polanski are claiming billionaires shouldn’t be allowed to own media companies. A sorry state of affairs…
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New YouGov data shows that 56% of Londoners don’t want Sir Sadiq / Lord Khan to stand for a fourth mayoral term. Including almost a third who voted for him in 2024…
Most Londoners also think the capital is a worse place to live than it was a decade ago, even if Khan himself thinks saying so is some kind of right wing conspiracy. He still hasn’t confirmed whether he’ll stand again. David Lammy watches from the shadows, waiting…
The Welsh Government is handing out hundreds of thousands in taxpayer contracts to organisations supporting asylum seekers, despite immigration being a brief reserved to Westminster. Plaid…
Last week Sioned Williams, thr the Welsh Deputy First Minister and ‘Cabinet Minister for Social Justice and Equality’ said the Welsh Refugee Council has been “allocated £840,000 (including VAT) for the current financial year (2026-2027) to lead delivery of the Wales Sanctuary Service.” Pretty pennies…
The Welsh Refugee Council offers support to illegal immigrants seeking asylum as well as refugees. It is the main promoter of the “Nation of Sanctuary” policy which forces the government to provide wide and unconditional support (e.g. “emotional support“) and funding to asylum seekers. It runs other initiatives like the “Asylum Rights Programme funded by Welsh Government to enable asylum seekers to understand and access their rights.” Funded by taxpayer grants…
A Reform UK Wales spokesman tells Guido:
“Plaid Cymru seem ideologically obsessed with spending Welsh taxpayer cash on encouraging illegal immigrants into Wales.
They have already made Wales into a Nation of Sanctuary, and pumped cash into legal advisers for asylum seekers, when will they put the people of Wales first? This funding to the Welsh Refugee Council should be scrapped and put into actual devolved areas such as our NHS.”
Or better still, don’t spend it at all…
Burnham said: “It’s a matter for Harry and for Meghan, and we wish them well in the move that they are making.” Sorry Harry…
Lord Khan in the Telegraph: “I hope, and I say this in a non-pompous way, that the public service I do will bring rewards in this world and the hereafter,” he says. “I’m hoping the work I do is earning me Brownie points.”