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Paul Dacre's speech to the Leveson enquiry is correct on some things but full of hypocisy.

On one hand he is scathing about the concept of 'regulation' but then announces a Page 2 corrections column. As if that would have come about without the hacking scandal.

He also makes some weird claims..that "The nation didn’t go to war. Yet the response has been a judicial inquiry with greater powers than those possessed by the public inquiries into the Iraq war"

I'd would say the nation did go to war with the co-operation of Blair's ghastly Nu Labour party , the BBC and News Corp's .

The hacking scandal is just a symptom of a corrupting relationship between politicians and the media.

note how he attacks non-profit making newspapers for exposing the scandal which really sums up the value of rags like the Mail.

I listened to part of his speech (while I was in the bath, but that's neither here nor there!) and thought a muddled mess of contradictions, and supremely arrogant too.