📣 ANNOUNCING THE FULL SPEAKER LINE-UP 📣
We’re delighted to unveil the full list of speakers for our upcoming half-day conference
“Politicians & THE PRESS”
🗓️ Date: Wednesday 12 November 2025
🕒 Time: 15:30-19:00 followed by networking drinks
📍 Venue: Lewis Silkin LLP, 255 Blackfriars Road, London SE1 9AX
🎙️ Our Panels & Speakers:
Panel 1 – Politicians and the Public Interest: Legal Update
With: Lord Gerald Shamash; Godwin Busuttil and Ian Helme
Panel 2 – A Dysfunctional Relationship
With: Nathan Sparkes; Baroness Jenny Jones and Sir Vince Cable
Panel 3 – Stories from the Frontline
With: Emma Jones; Mark Borkowski; Donnachadh McCarthy and Lord Tom McNally
Panel 4 – The Hack, TV Show: What the Drama Gets Right / What It Gets Wrong
With: Dr Evan Harris; Ellen Gallagher; Charlotte Harris and Paul Farrelly
Following the panels, join us for networking drinks from 19:00.
🔗 Full event details and tickets can be found on our website: https://t.co/DZFabUu4sk
All ticket revenue supports our work at the Press Justice Project.
Please feel free to share this with colleagues, friends and networks who care about the intersection of politics, media and public interest.
#PressJusticeProject #PoliticiansAndThePress #MediaEthics #PoliticsAndMedia #LondonEvent #TheHack
Loved working with the incredible @TRUE_Swansea again, this time to create their YouTube channel trailer.
Please give them a follow and support their incredibly important and forward-thinking research : https://t.co/hsdGxKA4Xo
@UKRI_News
@Swansea_Law
👥 We’re small—but we’re mighty.
The Press Justice Project is a young charity with a committed team, guided by trustees who know first-hand what it’s like to face harm through the press.
We don’t have big budgets or big offices. What we do have is:
✔️ Expertise in press standards and regulation
✔️ Partnerships with lawyers, educators, and campaigners
✔️ A determination to stand up for people who’ve been silenced
We’re here to fight for justice, no matter how big the headline or how small the voice.
#SmallButMighty #PressJusticeTeam
Jacqui Hames, featured in #TheHack, is calling on the Prime Minister to put the public ahead of Murdoch, and act now to end corruption and abuse in the press.
Back her petition now:
https://t.co/cznDl3WRd7
Jacqui Hames, featured in #TheHack, is calling on the Prime Minister to put the public ahead of Murdoch, and act now to end corruption and abuse in the press.
Back her petition now:
https://t.co/cznDl3WRd7
🎥 TRAILER DROP
My Royal Scandal: I Stalked Prince Harry for the Tabloids – Then Both of Our Lives Were Destroyed
✍️ By Duncan Larcombe
“I helped make Prince Harry a global icon—and then I helped destroy him.”
As The Sun’s Royal Editor, Duncan Larcombe had a front-row seat to the making of a modern prince. From teenage antics to Afghanistan tours, to the infamous Vegas scandal—he broke the exclusives. Made headlines. Built a career.
But behind the scenes, the machine was chewing them both up.
🔹 Harry’s mental health deteriorated.
🔹 Duncan was arrested, then abandoned by his own industry.
🔹 Two lives, wrecked by the same toxic media system.
My Royal Scandal is the first insider confession of how Fleet Street stalked Harry like it did his mother—Diana.
📕 Explosive. Raw. Unforgettable.
🛒 Read now: https://t.co/74omEz68y3
#MyRoyalScandal #PrinceHarry #DuncanLarcombe #TabloidCulture #RoyalFamily #FleetStreet #TheSun #YellowPress #HarryVsTheMedia #MediaScandal #MeghanMarkle
🎥 WATCH: Ex-Private Investigator Breaks Silence
He was hired by major UK newspapers to hack phones, tap emails, and dig up dirt—then watched those same papers deny everything at Leveson. Now, he's speaking out.
🔎 'We were scapegoats. The real criminals are the editors.'
👀 Names dropped: News of the World, The Sun, Daily Mail, Daily Express.
📢 Share this before it disappears.
@YellowLensCo
#PressAbuse #HackedOff #Leveson #ExposeNews #UKMedia #InvestigativeJournalism
They thought we’d forget. We didn’t.
They buried the truth. We’re digging it up.
Watch the film.
Join the fight.
Demand Leveson Part Two.
📽️👊 https://t.co/NLdJYC9yXo
#Leveson2#HackedOff#PressReform
📰 The press claims to hold power to account. The reality? They are in bed with it. – A sit down with Prof. Natalie Fenton
The media should serve the public, but instead, it protects the powerful and silences the truth. When billionaires own the press, democracy suffers.
📢 It’s time to demand change. Watch the full investigation and take action. Write to your MP today: https://t.co/hjoTcwWr5R
#MediaManipulation #WhoControlsTheNews #HackedOff #ExposeTheTruth #PressFreedom
Tonight at 9pm on @C4Dispatches ‘Michael Sheen’s Secret Million Pound Giveaway’. The secret bit was the setting up the company obviously it’s not secret anymore! #FairBankingAct https://t.co/tvwlrYFaoe
Britain's press is misleading the public, intruding into peoples' lives, and abusing ordinary people. In opposition Labour promised to act. Tell @Keir_Starmer : yes, standing up to Murdoch is hard, but it's the right thing to do. Write to your MP now: https://t.co/HlZTlY0O3A
Produced by Yellow Lens for @hackinginquiry . Exposing what they want buried.
“Britain’s Press: Power Without Responsibility?” lays bare the truth. The real criminals? Not the scapegoats who took the fall, but the editors and newspapers who orchestrated it all—and got away.
IPSO is failing the public and enabling unethical journalism.
Following the Leveson Inquiry, the UK was left with a sham regulator—one controlled by the very newspapers it is supposed to hold accountable. As Lord Leveson famously put it, they are still marking their own homework.
The evidence is clear:
📉 In 2022, only 0.6% of complaints to IPSO were upheld.
⏳ On average, it takes almost six months for a complaint to be processed.
💰 IPSO has never launched a formal investigation or fined a national newspaper.
This systemic failure has real consequences. In the case of The Sun’s intrusion into the grief of John Chapman’s family, IPSO upheld the complaint—but only after 232 days. By that point, the harm had long been done, and the only sanction imposed was the publication of a small adjudication. No fine. No investigation. No accountability.
This is not independent press regulation. It is a system designed to protect newspapers, not the public.
If IPSO refuses to enforce ethical journalism, who will? It is time for meaningful reform.
📽️ Watch the full story in our film: https://t.co/7mUG1m7kqn
📝 Take action—demand real press accountability. Write to your MP today: https://t.co/0REGSI5D0I
#IPSOFails #PressAbuse #Leveson #MediaEthics #WriteToYourMP
📝 ACT NOW: Demand Press Reform! 📝
The UK press remains unaccountable, spreading misinformation & harming victims. It's time for real change.
📢 Write to your MP today & urge them to back independent press regulation.
👉 Use our tool to send a letter in minutes: https://t.co/0REGSI55ba
📢 NEW FILM: Britain’s Press – Power Without Responsibility 📢
From hacking phones to ruining lives, the UK press has too much power & zero accountability. Our new film exposes the corruption at the heart of the industry. Watch now. 🎥👇
https://t.co/S8jzY8bzJy
Whistleblowers have played a crucial role in exposing the dark truths of tabloid media scandals. Protecting their voices is essential if we want to hold powerful institutions, and the billionaires who own them, accountable—and to push for real change through measures like Leveson 2. 💛 📷🩷