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

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

incredible scenes

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/07/05/world/05britain_337cham/05britain_337cham-custom3.jpg

How many more times are they gonna top themselves before this is over?

xxxpost Orange and T-mobile are owned by the same company now, so it's no surprise they would have the same media line.

hope this works:

http://i.imgur.com/Z5EM2.gif

This is really fucked up

how much worse could this get? i am running out of ideas?

have always been opposed to the death penalty but

maybe they hacked the 9/11 guys' phones and deleted the message saying "hey let's blow up the twin towers"?

how much worse could this get? i am running out of ideas?

― caek, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 22:41 (26 seconds ago) Bookmark

where this all started is the worst story: there's a guy whose murder has never been solved because corrupt cops covered it up. the corrupt cops who were being paid by newspapers including...

McMullen: Of course [Rebekah Brooks] knew about it.
Paxman: She denies it, of course.
McMullen: That's an interesting position to take!

jesus who is this sociopath on newsnight?

(not campbell)

the guy who hugh grant bugged

McMullen trying to make phone hacking seem acceptable by estimating that about 10% of the country does it anyway is certainly an interesting tack to take

"this is not a big deal"