The Starkey brouhaha follows a well-trodden path says John Kampfner. Curmudgeonly man says something crass. Somebody gets cross.
We’re too easily offended
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John Kampfner
John Kampfner
We're too easily offended
John Kampfner: We’re too easily offended
We're too easily offended
John Kampfner: We’re too easily offended
On the Record
John Kampfner: On the Record
News of the World fallout could change Britain’s media culture
Axing the PCC means re-examining the balance of privacy v public interest – but will investigative journalism pay the price?
PLUS: Rohan Jayasekera: Making a courtroom drama out of a media crisis
John Kampfner: Britain’s media must start policing itself
Don't forget, it was good journalism that exposed phone hacking
John Kampfner: Don’t forget, it was good journalism that exposed phone hacking
Britain’s media must start policing itself
No one can now be in any doubt about the depths to which some in the British media will sink to get a story. John Kampfner reports
Privacy concerns should not be used as excuse to bash press
John Kampfner: Privacy concerns should not be used as excuse to bash press
Art Troitsky’s only crimes are humour and irreverence
John Kampfner writes about his friend Art Troitsky who faces prison for calling “pro-Kremlin” star a poodle
An inquiry into press practice will be good for free speech
John Kampfner: An inquiry into press practice will be good for free speech
The worrying rise of the rich man’s weapon of justice
In the week that super-injunctions broke new legal ground, John Kampfner attacks a growing threat to press freedom
At last a blow to oligarchs
John Kampfner: At last a blow to oligarchs