Nicholas Jones
was a BBC industrial and political correspondent for 30 years. His most recent book, The Lost Tribe, is about Fleet Street's industrial correspondents
Blog posts in total 3
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Damian McBride’s willing accomplices in the press escape scrutiny
Many political journalists were complicit with the ex-spin doctor Damian McBride, helping to propagate his smear stories about the ministerial colleagues and opponents of the former chancellor and prime minister Gordon Brown.
TUC conference briefing: big disputes ahead - and not just with Miliband
The first set-piece speech by Ed Miliband since the worsening disagreement over trade union financing of the Labour Party is likely to dominate news coverage of the annual TUC conference in Bournemouth.
Great political theatre, but Leveson was a missed opportunity
Having spent most of my career as an industrial and political reporter working in competition with the Murdoch press, I found the public hearings of the Leveson Inquiry a disappointment.
