“Piers Morgan is capable of remembering things that didn’t happen… perhaps his diaries weren’t written contemporaneously. There are a number of glaring errors. He has tea with the wrong prime mininster.” Read the full story

“Leveson is only gradually getting the hang of how newspapers work. He seems to think editors sit around all day worrying about ethics and aid to Haiti.” Read the full story

“Of course I would love it to be a million every night but I’ve not been set a target [by Channel 4]. We would all like the numbers to go up but it’s not what this is about.” Read the full story

“Paul Dacre can have my fucking hard drive off my computer. He won’t find anything there other than very orthodox pornography that consenting couples used recreationally. He’ll be familiar with the stuff.” Read the full story

“The last day of August makes gods of excitable Sky Sports News presenters. If TV needs someone to announce the end of the world but make it sound like the best fun any of us could ever have, it must hand the job to Sky’s Jim White.” Read the full story

“[The PCC is] merely a body which deals with complaints about the press, the equivalent of the customer services department of any large corporate organisation.” Read the full story

“The redtops are not exclusively to blame [for trivialising the news]. Rarely does a so-called serious paper miss the opportunity to follow up on a celebrity story, sprinkling their reports with irony to help their more knowing readers digest more comfortably. I read them as assiduously as the next person.” Read the full story

“If anyone reading this runs a news channel, please, don’t clog the airwaves with fact-free conjecture unless you’re going to replace the word “expert” with ‘guesser’ and the word ‘speculate’ with ‘guess’, so it’ll be absolutely clear that when the anchor asks the expert to speculate, they’re actually just asking a guesser to guess.” Read the full story