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The Independent Press Standards Organisation, successor to the ill-fated PCC, launches on Monday with much of the surrounding detail still work in play, and perhaps in progress. Has Sir Alan Moses, its first, very independent, chairman, won enough of the battles for autonomy he threatened in the summer? Reach for a microscope, join wait-and-see non-participants in the Guardian/Observer ranks and begin brooding. It's easy to take the Hacked Off approach and declare blanket opposition to anything but the "full Leveson". But the Guardian and the Observer aren't buying parliament's royal charter version either – a "medieval nonsense," says the Guardian editor, "a constitutional car crash". So joining Ipso, or not, is the first question on the agenda, a matter of trust and transparency as well as faith.
Surely all the questions should have been answered by now? In fact it's all been a frantic rush before the old PCC simply fades away. As the Guardian, announcing its own pro tem approach, says: "We will publish more details… shortly". Meanwhile an ex-Guardian managing editor has just been named on the Ipso complaints committee, joining an ex-Scott trustee on the board. Two-way, not one-way, traffic.
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