The case is expected to have far-reaching consequences for third parties who use or publish information from social networking sites. Lawyers say it could place a duty on all second-hand users to establish the truth of everything they want to republish f

American journalists, I realised, regard themselves as members of a respectable profession – like lawyers or bankers. Their British counterparts generally prefer the idea that they are outsiders.

“Advertising which has kept us all afloat is retreating and diverting to the web and we haven’t yet seen a formula for making money out of the web.” Snow admits “nobody in their right money would spend private money on Channel 4 News because it’s too expe

A kern, in the literal sense, is any part of a character that extends beyond the body. The more delicate a kern, the more likely it is to break off during use, and Arabic is among the world’s most sinewy scripts.

“Monck overlooks much that is inconvenient, but he is astute about the low commercial value of serious news, right about the spread of rational ignorance and right that copious supplies of news have not created a sophisticated electorate.”

the libel laws of England and Wales are tilted so heavily against the defendant and involve such monumental costs that they amount, in effect, to censorship by private interests: a sedition law for the exclusive use of millionaires.