![Charlotte Church: 'I had a big group of girlfriends, but the more stories came out the more people I cut out of my life'](https://pukstaging.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14005965_1200-1024x648.jpg)
* leveson inquiry
![Charlotte Church: 'I had a big group of girlfriends, but the more stories came out the more people I cut out of my life'](https://pukstaging.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14005965_1200-1024x648.jpg)
![The Leveson inquiry continues](https://pukstaging.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14041223_1200-2-1024x622.jpg)
![Some better looking faces this week, some of the time anyway.](https://pukstaging.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_2115_1200-1024x768.jpg)
![Sienna Miller said she felt "violated" by phone-hacking intrusion](https://pukstaging.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14937_1200-1024x1024.jpg)
![Maddy McCann's disappearance in 2007 prompted obsessive media coverage.](https://pukstaging.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_7002477_1200-690x1024.jpg)
![Hugh Grant has become a leading phone-hacking campaigner.](https://pukstaging.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_1498_1200-1024x1024.jpg)
![MDU advises doctors on how to prevent a delayed diagnosis in prostate and testicular cancer](https://pukstaging.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14124256_1200-1-1024x506.png)
The Medical Defence Union (MDU) has expressed concern that doctors will have insufficient time to read and digest the General Medical Council’s (GMC) more detailed guidance (MDG) which has been published today and comes into effect on January 30th 2024, alongside the updated version of its ethical standards Good Medical Practice. The MDGs, cover a… Read more »
![Humanist UK logo](https://pukstaging.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14123216_1200-11-1024x297.png)
Ofsted has called on the Government to take action on illegal schools. The call came in Ofsted’s latest annual report, published yesterday. The report also highlighted that religious education (RE) provision in English state schools is ‘not fit for purpose’, and that independent faith schools perform very badly in Ofsted inspections. Humanists UK, which has led the… Read more »
Latest articles
![On the back foot: The Dowler testimony is likely to be highly damaging to Rupert Murdoch's News International.](https://pukstaging.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14025957_1200-1-1024x821.jpg)
The family of murdered teenager Milly Dowler has delivered a devastating account of press intrusion into their lives as they opened the witness sessions for the Leveson inquiry.
![Mike Indian: "This will never be an idea which wins a standing ovation from those that it seeks to target."](https://pukstaging.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14028381_1200-1-768x1024.jpg)
The idea that a regulator could be set up to watch over bloggers has caused a storm online.
![Glenn Mulcaire's notebooks reveal 2,266 "taskings"](https://pukstaging.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14027969_1200-1-1024x804.jpg)
![The National Union of Journalists has said it will use its core participant status at the Leveson inquiry into press ethics to call for a conscience clause that would prevent journalists who expose unethical practices from losing their jobs.](https://pukstaging.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14039864_1200-1024x684.jpg)
![Lord Patten has defended the self-regulation of the press, arguing it still has a future despite the events of the phone hacking scandal.](https://pukstaging.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14024561_1200-1-1024x636.jpg)
![Lord Justice Leveson has said his inquiry into press practices in light of the phone hacking scandal will aim to determine "who guards the guardians" in media regulation.](https://pukstaging.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14039864_1200-1-1024x684.jpg)