Once upon a time, a couple of years ago, the massed ranks of newspapers great or small condemned Leveson’s plans for low-cost arbitration on reader complaints. But then Impress, the soon-to-be-sanctified Leveson regulator, produced its own scheme (which might have been more successful if Impress had any weighty members to operate it) and the House of Commons select committee grew restive.
The squeeze, with no Tory overall election majority, was on.
So it was, last week, that Ipso, the big but unrecognised regulator, produced its own scenario for cheap arbitration, and its former fulminations died away.
One question. If walls of fear can disintegrate so fast, why doesn’t Ipso bid for regulatory recognition, thereby surely finishing off Impress, which stumbles along as its members and directors put their tweets where prudent silence should be?
