Bill Topping's blog

Ask any of my close friends and they will tell you I need to start caring more about what looks cool or fashionable and what is generally acceptable to wear out in today’s society.

I normally enjoy deliberately embarrassing my trendy peers with clashing clothes, grotesque hair and ancient technology, but I have recently let myself down with the purchase of a new iphone.

Over the last two months the Leveson enquiry has been collecting evidence on the phone hacking scandals and other alleged press abuses which invade privacy. The evidence is being collected with a view to making recommendations for a new, more effective policy and regulatory regime.

All this was fresh in my mind as I read the latest edition of New Internationalist in which Mabvuto Banda wrote about the struggles in Malawi for press freedom.