Press regulation: instead of sensible reform, we now have a sloppy mess

The introduction of the royal charter was beset with confusion and chaos Lord Justice Leveson's most plangent question begins to be answered. Why, he asked repeatedly, do so many reforms of the British press, proposed down the decades by royal commissions and learned inquiries, come to very little? Perhaps because they are built on treacherous ground, because they need trust and great care even to begin to work. For both trust and care are the missing ingredients now. Last Monday afternoon, pavi...