I have not often been called a ‘renowned political commentator’ (for readers of this blog it tends to be ‘hopeless naive leftie’ and elsewhere it’s ‘notorious Zionist neo-con’) so I was delighted to come across this description of myself in the Harlow Star.
The article was prompted by my appointment as Visiting Professor at Harlow College, one of the best journalism training schools in the country. Over the years, this magnificent Essex institution has produced such stellar alumni as Alan Rusbridger, Roger Alton, Jeremy Clarkson, Piers Morgan and Richard Madeley. I intend to invite them all back over the course of the next academic year to discuss the future of journalism in the light of the Leveson Inquiry.
I also hope to build on the good working relationship with the local MP, Robert Halfon, following on from our work on the Parliamentary Academy for MPs’ apprentices run by my charity New Deal of the Mind.
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