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HUGH GRANT called yesterday for the second part of the Leveson inquiry to take place after settling his phone-hacking damages claims against Mirror Group Newspapers.
The actor is understood to have donated a six-figure damages sum to campaign group Hacked Off.
Speaking outside court, Mr Grant said the case was not just about him but the “nature of high-level concealment at the Mirror Group.”
Enduring myths blame print unions for their own destruction – but TONY BURKE argues that the Wapping dispute was a calculated assault by Murdoch on organised labour, which reshaped Britain’s media landscape and casts a long shadow over trade union rights today
On the 40th anniversary of the Wapping dispute, this Morning Star special supplement traces the long-planned conspiracy that led to the mass sackings of printworkers in 1986 – a struggle whose unresolved injustices still demand redress today, writes ANN FIELD
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the difficulties surrounding freedom of expression
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the government’s proposals to further limit the right of citizens to trial by jury