Daily Telegraph
Max Mosley orgy ruling will allow 'adultery without fear of exposure’
Dr Andrew Scott, senior lecturer on media law at LSE, said privacy law was ‘burgeoning’. ‘This isn't simply a case of judges running amok: Parliament quietly legislated for the shift when it introduced the Human Rights Act. But it is being left to judges to decide what the public interest comprises.’

Charlie Beckett, director of the Polis media think tank at LSE, said such rulings were creating a de facto privacy law. ‘A journalist who works in the celebrity area told me they are not doing stories about a particular star because that person will seek injunctions on privacy grounds. It's a chilling effect that will happen in quite a practical way.’
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/2455756/Max-Mosley-orgy
-ruling-will-allow-adultery-without-fear-of-exposure.html

Mosley victory will keep adultery secret; Landmark ruling may prevent press investigating sexual misconduct by public figures
Dr Andrew Scott, senior lecturer on media law at the LSE, said: ‘Reporting conduct by a powerful figure that many might consider inappropriate, immoral or even borderline criminal doesn’t automatically meet the threshold. Thus, the public won’t be informed that a politician is engaged in an adulterous relationship with a colleague, unless - for example - it is also demonstrated that the pair had feathered their love nest using public funds.’
(Source: Lexis)

ITNews, Italy
CAC Amends its Judgement About The Burke Group
The TUC's report was jointly-published with their US-equivalent body, the AFL-CIO on 12 February 2008. The report was completed by John Logan, from the London School of Economics.
http://www.itnews.it/news/2008/0725011801478/cac-amends-its-judgement-about
-the-burke-group.html

Late-edition headlines

Daily Telegraph
Max Mosley orgy case marks end of kiss-and-tell stories
Article by Dr Andrew Scott, senior lecturer on media law at LSE and LexisNexis's media law expert.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/2455953/Max-Mosley
-orgy-case-marks-end-of-kiss-and-tell-stories.html

PA
Newspaper spanking could chain journalism, says lawyer
Charlie Beckett, director of the Polis media thinktank at LSE, said rulings such as today's were creating a de facto privacy law. Public figures who were the subject of investigative journalism were increasingly seeking injunctions to stop publication on the grounds that their privacy had been breached, and today's ruling would help their cause, he said. ‘It's not so much the threat that you will have to pay a fine at the end of it as the cost of paying a lawyer to get into court to argue that you have a right to publish in the first place,’ he said.
(Source: Lexis)

The Western Mail
Bank MPC member voted to increase interest rates; Minutes reveal the pressure on monetary policy makers
Oxford-educated Mr Besley is also a part-time professor at LSE alongside his duties on the MPC, which he joined as an external member in September 2006.
(Source: Lexis)

Environmental Expert
London Transport Museum reveals that the future is greener in cities
Speaking at the debate, Tony Travers from LSE commented: ‘The problem about people living in the countryside and the cost of fuel means that living in the countryside is not economically sustainable. Every time you hear a debate about carbon credits, remember that it will put the cost of living in rural areas up very significantly, and bring it down in cities.’
http://www.environmental-expert.com/resultEachPressRelease.aspx?cid=30554
&codi=34622&idproducttype=8&level=0

US News
Knife-Crime Spree Sweeps Britain, Leaving Victims and Fear in Its Wake
‘They're trying to out-tough each other on crime policy,’ says Tim Newburn, a criminologist at LSE. ‘The political atmosphere is pretty febrile.’
http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/world/2008/07/18/knife-crime-spree-sweeps
-britain-leaving-victims-and-fear-in-its-wake.html

IT Week
Case study: LSE benefits from remote possibilities
When the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) carried out a review of its IT functions, the university decided it could deliver a better service to staff and students by making greater use of remote assistance tools to improve efficiency in the way it provided technical support.
http://www.itweek.co.uk/itweek/analysis/2222442/lse-case-study

Axis News
Serbian authorities deny that international intelligence services tips led to Karadzic’s arrest
Some Serbs believe Serbian authorities long knew his whereabouts and chose to protect him. While the government may not have had time to organize the operation, some individuals could have, Balkan analyst Svetozar Rajak at LSE told VOA. ‘We know that the outgoing head of the intelligence services, Bilatovic was praised in the past even by Carla del Ponte [former prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia] as cooperating with western intelligence services in pursuing and trying to apprehend both Karadzic and [Ratko] Mladic,’ said Rajak.
http://www.axisglobe.com/article.asp?article=1607

Yorkshire Post
It's no laughing matter as police keep an eye on our TV cops
Marianne Colbran was one of them. During the 1980s, she worked as scriptwriter on The Bill, but recently made the move into academia, joining the law department at LSE with the hope of discovering how television programmes affect public perceptions of policing.
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/features/Its-no-laughing-matter-as.4319917.jp

PC World
Project CrackBerry
If you use a BlackBerry for any business-related purposes -- and if you're reading this, we bet you do -- The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) wants you! That's because the college is doing research in the form of an online survey to try and gauge the effects of always-on mobile connectivity on professionals' work/life balance.
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/148885/project_crackberry.html

LSE people on TV/Radio

BBC (24 July)
News Channel
Charlie Beckett, director of POLIS at LSE, appeared on the programme discussing the Max Mosley privacy case.

BBC Radio 4 (24 July)
You and Yours
Dr Tim Leunig, lecturer in economic history at LSE, discussed the pros and cons of high speed rail links.

ITV (23 July)
London Tonight
Tony Travers, director of the Greater London Group at LSE, appeared on the programme discussing the Cross Rail development.

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