I’m a historian of the British empire and have a new book out entitled Our Island Stories: Country Walks Through Colonial Britain.

With polling day within touching distance and politicians keen to divert attention to policy issues they want to talk about.

On Thursday, June 13th, Hacked Off Board Director Jacqui Hames spoke at the Liberal Democrats' Business Network event, on the “Impact of the Media on Politics” in London.

According to Thangam Debbonaire MP, Labour’s current shadow culture secretary, there is nothing more to be done about press regulation.

Sir Brian Leveson, speaking out publicly about his Report’s recommendations for the first time, has issued a damning rebuttal to false claims from the Government and the press about the reforms he proposed on press standards.

The UK’s independent authority on press standards, the Press Recognition Panel (PRP), has today published a report reviewing the activities of IPSO, the complaints-handler controlled by the press.

“Sex is biological fact, NHS declares” and “[the NHS] will ban trans women from female-only wards”. However these statements do not reflect the reality of the NHS’ position.