Who guards the guardians?

Lord Justice Leveson does.  For it is he who has been appointed to head the judicial inquiry into phone hacking and press standards.  

Some have complained that he is, again, too much of an insider to do a good job, on the grounds that he has attended two parties in the last 12 months given by Matthew Freud, who is married to Elisabeth Murdoch, daughter of Rupert.  But I think excluding anyone who has ever socialised with a Murdoch relative might be narrowing the field a tad too much.

His initial comments are encouraging.  He asked for the help of the press to "weed out corruption".  I very much like the fact that his first words acknowledge that the outrageous behaviour of the few should not tar the reputation of the whole media.  Much of the media is performing a very valuable scrutiny role.  We should be lauding them as much as we seek to regulate the rest.