DEM not gonna CON dis NATION: Rolling UK politics in the short-lived Cleggeron era

xp

Only when there's footie at stake.

Sun's cup coverage doubles sales in Liverpool

As predicted: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/05/phone-hacking-soham-families-police

yeah. wouldn't be surprised if they got involved w/ things like baby p and madeline mccan too.

Peta Buscombe of the PCC admits that the PCC is fucking useless: "There's only so much we can do when people are lying to us. We know now that I was not being given the truth by the News of the World."

yeah. we already knew the practice was endemic...so at this point it'd be more of a surprise if they hadn't.

i guess people have checked out the bylines of the reporters assigned to these stories at the time?

Yeah, proving they tapped the McCanns would be huge.

Not esp. huger than Milly Dowler / Soham

well they might've let slip where the kid's buried

The deleting of the messages in the Milly Dowler case is the real jawdropper

i guess people have checked out the bylines of the reporters assigned to these stories at the time?

― lex pretend, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 16:32 (1 minute ago) Bookmark

well, i'm sure nick davies has, but news international took all their stuff off lexisnexis last year and their web archive doesn't go back more than a couple of years. wonder why.

#itsagoodstory

news international took all their stuff off lexisnexis last year

didn't even know you could do this

So Rebekah's for Xmas dinner or Dave and Sam's this year?

I think huger in the sense that the cases were different -- Maddy hunt and investigation was more controversial and much less clear (not to mention still open). Tampering with evidence when the parents themselves were suspects and there were foreign police involved seems to me like it'll be more grave. xxp

Yes, Cam's visit to Afghanistan has been slightly overshadowed by all this. It's only just got back on the BBC front page. Of course, he's not there for the photo op, so he's probably fine with it.

amazing dissection of the brooks statement: http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/david-allen-green/2011/07/news-allegations-evidence-2

channel 4 apparently homing in on possibly the only worse-than-maddie scenario: that the notw campaigned for sara's law, and hacked the phone of sarah payne.

oh shiiiiiiiiiiiiiit

Is it definite that Milly Dowler's family/friends knew about the voicemails being deleted? Confused as to whether they did or whether their lawyer had just said that could have happened as a result of the hacking, from what I've read

This is snowballing into something horrible and utterly compelling at the same time.

This has gone a bit David Peace

Jon Snow just casually slaughtering Simon Greenberg, who is admittedly not putting up much of a fight

if the stuff about the police officer they tailed is all true then its the first proof that Brooks knew about the phone hacking in 2002

...and, in a total non-shock at this point, the police have been speaking to the McCanns' lawyers

all we need now is some evidence they hacked the queen mum and people will be burning effigies in the street

if the stuff about the police officer they tailed is all true then its the first proof that Brooks knew about the phone hacking in 2002

― SB OK (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, July 5, 2011 8:00 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah when they do the mini-series, it'll open with the murder of dan morgan, that pretty much explains why the police never got into this without being forced.

beginning to think if they were doing all this hacking, notw should have got some better stories. this police corruption one would have been classic screws material.

When finally confronted, the News of the World apparently said they were interested in whether Dave Cook was having an affair with a Crimewatch presenter Jacqui Hames. They were in fact married at the time.

good work guys.

loooool

this is all leading up to the notw being found to have abducted a child

starting to feel a bit like season 5 of the wire

Glenn Mulcaire apologises says he was trying to do stuff for the greater good

"I know I have brought the vilification I am experiencing upon myself, but I do ask the media to leave my family and my children, who are all blameless, alone."

un
fucking
believable

http://cdn.10dailythings.com/images/viciousCircle.jpg

Guys can I just

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/07/05/world/05britainx_cnd/05britainx_cnd-popup.jpg

haha yeah that needs memification

i wonder which match she was watching

"Today...Roger shall not win. No."

http://web16.twitpic.com/img/338817647-47ede54cb0e242ebba12a70082921628.4e137448-scaled.jpg

boom. dacre next!

Is that a Cameron lookalike sitting behind Brooks at Wimbledon?

Murdoch wit "this facial expression"

old but wth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1AJjnl2y8U

pause at 0:24 for impromptu witch impersonation

A spokesman for T-Mobile said: "We're currently reviewing our advertising position with News of the World, following the recent allegations, and await the outcome of the ongoing police investigation."

Orange put out a similar statement, saying: "We're currently reviewing our advertising position with News of the World, following the recent allegations, and await the outcome of the ongoing police investigation."

Those statements are actually pretty similar

This was tweeted then deleted:

BREAK - @tom_watson tells @itv_news that a senior News Intl executive has confirmed to him Rebekah Brooks will resign tomorrow morning.

Apparently at 9am tomorrow from quite a few reputable tweets.

And this twitter quote is so. fucking. true.

If this had happened at the BBC everyone working there would have been made to resign. Even the cleaners.

holding out for a couple of days then getting brooks to resign seems like a straightforward way to ensure it blows over, with a high-profile visible scalp placating most, without anything substantial being affected :(

dunno it's really kicking off:

Peston
News Int passed emails to police that seem to show Andy Coulson as editor of NOTW authorised payments to police. No comment from Coulson.

he's got to go ham and take brooks down with him.

oh, and 7/7 victims' families:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/8619373/News-of-the-World-bereaved-relatives-of-77-victims-had-phones-hacked.html

OH SHIIIIIITTTTT.

fucking hell