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Hugh Grant on the Leveson report.

Actor Hugh Grant. Photograph: Getty Images.
Hugh Grant has written the introduction to Everybody's Hacked Off, a new book on the Leveson inquiry by Brian Cathcart. Photograph: Getty Images.

I believe that Lord Justice Leveson will recommend a new regulator and that the battle that follows will be massively uneven.

Hugh Grant predicts a fight to the death over the forthcoming Leveson report.

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Mbrecker's picture

In fact, the battle's been going on for quite some time. In the corporate media, you have current and former "reporters" all pointing fingers at each other. I didn't hack anybody, he did it. However, I do know how to do it. Admit it readers, you love to know what celeb is doing drugs, who's sleeping with who and so on. Don't be hypocrites and deny it. Why else would you continue to buy our tabloid?

Meanwhile at the BBC, it's right wing censorship. "Free Palestine"? Censored. Gaza Relief Drive? Censored. Paxman and Andrew Marr can say whatever the bloody hell they like. If anyone dares to complain, immediately it's the standard "we at the BBC continue to maintain various journalistic standards", and so on. What that really means is that right wing content makes money. Which is why George Galoway will NEVER have his own talk show on the BBC.

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