One certainty in this otherwise uncertain world is that today’s lunchtime toast over at the Society of Editors is in honour of Liam Fox and Oliver Letwin for services rendered.
What better vehicle to provide validation for the public interest argument than the transgressions of a couple of senior government MPs? It couldn’t have been planned better - but best to put that particular thought on hold for the time being.
Whatever your view on the content of the defence mounted by Paul Dacre at the Leveson seminar or the Newsnight spat between Mensch and Coogan, it is remarkable how publishers have brought the contentious issue of press regulation back to Westminster’s doorstep so promptly and so effectively.
Nick Robinson thinks that the damaged Defence Secretary might still go – but is obliged to refer to a Times story over the Werritty’s ‘backer’s as collateral for advancing his view.
His account from the sidelines may prompt further dark murmurings about a discernible tendency of how it is the license fee that decide what is – and what is not – the news that counts. But for the moment, and regardless of conspiracy theories, it is definitely Grub Street that occupies the shifting high ground.
Update: Fox gives up the limo
Update: Fox gives up the limo
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