The long-running inquiry was commissioned in haste as the Prime Minister sought to remove questions about his former director of communications from the immediate political agenda. Those questions had arisen from the phone hacking saga focused on the News International media business.
The remit of the inquiry was vast and inevitably proved a complex area on which to report. In time, it reflected a ‘traditional’ role of print journalism as a social mirror and so the sessions took in witnesses from the law, politics, show business, crime and struggled with important ideas such as free speech within a time of social, communication and economic change.
I commend this lecture by George Brock, head of journalism at City University and formerly of The Times if you are interested in how Lord Justice Leveson found a way through the experience and got us all to this point.
While I was listening to Brock’s lecture, I found I particularly enjoyed his characterisation of Brian Leveson as a moving target and so made the sketch Who could blame Brian Leveson for playing one?
A trip to the BLUSTER FURNACE to see an innovation of the economie (sic).
Image © Matt Buck Hack Cartoons
The cover of Card declined by Steven Mathieson which charts the history of government attempts to introduce identity cards into the UK since world war two.
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© Michael Cross and Matthew Buck Hack Cartoons
The global economic race cartoon – as seen from the UK © Matthew Buck Hack Cartoons
Political buzzwords are always a fascination and the Prime Minister has been keen on ‘the global race’ of late.
Like his predecessors, he believes the country must develop its price competitiveness in order to trade more with the rest of the world. The trouble is every other country believes so too and thus the competition is fierce.
At last sight, the UK wasn’t doing very well at it.
The Italian elections are over and the results – a messy four way split – are about as bad as they can be for the EU, its member states and the continental currency, the Euro.
The ‘headline’ from the vote is the emergence of a populist dissenting movement led by comedian Beppe Grillo. Hence the title of this post.
France represented by President Hollande has just had an election. Chancellor Merkel of Germany faces one this autumn.
Can you spot the UK, Greece and Mr Grillo in the picture?
Updated 8th January 2014: UK comedian Russell Brand announces young folk should not vote.
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Moody’s credit ratings agency has finally downgraded the UK ‘worthiness’ from the top rated AAA. This is embarrassing for the chancellor who announced it the key measure for his success in managing a national recovery after the bail out of the financial industry.
© Matthew Buck Hack Cartoons for Channel 4 News
The Pope has resigned as the voice of the lord. Difficult but clearly not impossible for a man who abolished purgatory. The medieval illuminated manuscript featuring the Siberian meteorite shower, the horsemeat scandal, the Oscar Pistorius/Reeva Steenkamp death, the legislation for gay marriage and the discovery of King Richard III was commissioned by Channel 4 News.
Can you spot them all? And more importantly what else should I have included?
