National newspapers possess the freedom, funding and tenacity to invest in long-running, deeply scrutinizing investigations that can expose, embarrass and destruct corporations and individuals. Yet, they don't. The media proprietors prefer to divert their money toward the invention of scandal, no matter how half-baked or un-interesting.

This year has...

Reading a piece on Wannabe Hacks a few weeks ago, on staying motivated and remaining connected to journalism, made me practice what she preached.

I have, for a long time, been insistent on not accepting unpaid work placements. Two separate stints at a regional newspaper, a national magazine,...

He leans too far to the right to be Labour, and annoys his own backbenchers for implementing policy that aren't traditionally held party beliefs. His record abroad is impressive, but at home, much of the country has taken a dislike to Tony Blair... what you thought I was talking about...

Two weeks after the Sun published naked photos of Prince Harry from a private party in a locked hotel room, calling it "vital" in the defence of Britain's free press, the same newspaper lambasted French, Italian and Irish publications for printing a long-lens invasion of Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge's...

Defended with unrivalled passion and argued fiercely until the likes of Piers Morgan is left speechless, the debate on gun control in the United States will change nothing. Regardless of an individual's opinion, American or not, this idea that an American's right to bear arms is "sacrosanct" runs...

Twitter is having a facelift, and in keeping with the Facebook trend started by the image-saturated Timeline profile, the social mediums are getting rid of words. It looks sleek and simple, but the picture-heavy pages suggest a dumbing down, of the respective websites and global society.

Andrew...

For a man in his - gulp - mid-twenties, life gets... confusing.

No longer is it acceptable to lust after females too many years younger, it seems perverse. Torn between going out drinking until early the next morning and pulling on your slipper socks at 21.15 with a warm...

The Phone Hacking Scandal: Journalism on Trial (Arima 2012) was released in February, at the mid-point of Lord Justice Leveson's Inquiry in to phone hacking. Huw L. Hopkins contributed the timeline leading up to the emergence of phone hacking to the book and in Volume 2, set for release this...

I don't blame them, it's addictive. I haven't won much in my life, but when I have I've loved it, but even if I had been more successful, I'm not one for over indulging. Perhaps because I'm British I'm more willing to let something go, it's been so long since...

Kassa, Hungary. 1944 - The clouds, no matter what the weather, hung over the walls of this depressing district like a constant reminder of what the residents would be waking up to each morning. There would be odd days where new blood would enter the four walls, but there would...

It was 2005 and I felt like I had to do it. I wasn't forced, but the culture of the previous several years, for good or for bad, saw moderately intelligent 18 year-olds follow the natural and somewhat expected path to university. Like so many of my peers I would...