THE TORY government was accused of “capitulating to the press barons” today by once again ruling out the second part of the Leveson inquiry despite fresh allegations of criminal behaviour by the Sunday Times.
Shadow culture secretary Tom Watson raised an urgent question in the House of Commons in response to allegations made by former private investigator John Ford about work he did for the Sunday Times between 1995 and 2010.
Mr Ford claimed in an interview with the Guardian that he broke into then chancellor Gordon Brown’s bank and mortgage accounts and obtained secret polling memos from spin doctor Alastair Campbell’s bins.
Outrage greeted Donald Trump’s suggestion earlier this year that Britain stayed off the front lines. But evidence suggests our forces were at times pulled from the most dangerous fighting — not by military failure, but by pressure at home, says IAN SINCLAIR
Despite declining to show Kneecap’s set, the BBC broadcast Bob Vylan leading a ‘death to the IDF’ chant — and the resulting outrage has only amplified the very message the Establishment wanted silenced, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
To quell the public anger and silence the far right, Labour has rushed out a report so that it can launch a National Inquiry — ANN CZERNIK examines Baroness Casey’s incendiary audit and finds fatal flaws that fail to 'draw a line' under the scandal as hoped


