In Sunday’s Observer, we were told that Ed Miliband is being urged to pledge an ‘in-or-out’ referendum on the UK’s membership of the European Union should Labour be elected in the 2015 General Election. It is clear from this article, and other noises off (by Lord Mandelson, for example) that Labour Party opinion is being prepared for a change in [...]

Nearly six years ago, The Economist asked ‘Who killed the newspaper?‘. The answer was ‘the internet’, which offered free news and comment from here, there and everywhere. Sales of print versions are in decline – down by ten per cent for UK broadsheets in 2011, and five per cent for tabloids. However, the titles have risen up from their deathbed, [...]