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.
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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.
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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.