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

really worth reading to the end of this article joe posted yesterday -

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/06/news-of-the-world-rebekah-brooks

where the two murder suspects who paid a top NOTW reporter to spy on the police detective investigating them are described this way, in a kind of "where are they now" graf:

Charges against both men were later dropped, although Rees was convicted of plotting to plant cocaine on a woman so that her ex-husband would get custody of their children, and Fillery was convicted of possessing indecent images of children.

kid i went to school with was the son of an news int higherup, father seemed like a creep, kid had serious behavioural problems

Ah, good old Wikip.

Initially (sheridan) was held in Barlinnie prison in Glasgow, but after several weeks he was moved to a semi-open wing in Barlinnie, and on 21 June he was moved to Castle Huntly open prison. He could be released with an electronic tag as early as October.[40][41]

Hmm, maybe even earlier!

srsly can't u just see notw being killed and a sunday versh of the sun replacing it

― nakhchivan, Thursday, 7 July 2011 12:12 (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

Never underestimate papers' powers of resilience, cf. Daily Mail Hitler support.

who will protect Scotland from this crazed menace

xpost

Lock up your dochters

Martin Lewis, the Money Grabbing Expert:

I’m torn and have been wrestling with myself over this for a couple of days due to the association. While I strongly believe it’s important this type of irresponsible, morally bankrupt behaviour that gives my industry a bad name is both punished and stamped out, that needs to be balanced against my campaigning passion for educating people about their money, and helping as many people as possible.

If I pulled from the paper now, it wouldn’t stop the hideous past, nor would it stymie the investigations and punishments due to those involved. It would just mean News of the World readers got less information about money.

Hah, I've just read that Oborne article and it's extraordinary. I don't think I've ever seen the Telegraph dish out such a savaging to a Tory leader, let alone Prime Minister.

I notice Boris is calling for an enquiry. Purely in the interests of decency and not with any ulterior motive at all, of course.

FT reporting BskyB decision postponed till september

still going to happen obv

Don't get to say this often, but Gaunty OTM:

Former Sun columnist Jon Gaunt said last night Rebekah Brooks won't resign as chief executive of News International because to do so would put her boss James Murdoch in the firing line.

Gaunt worked for The Sun for six years, first as a columnist, then as the presenter of the paper’s shortlived attempt to launch an internet radio station, SunTalk, which closed last July.

Speaking at a debate held as part of the launch party in London for the website Huffington Post UK he said: “I think what she should do is look hard in the mirror because if that was somebody who ran Easyjet or ICI or any other big public company they would probably say the buck stops with me.

“So Rebekah should probably think on that. I’m not going to sit here and say she should go.

“I don’t think she will go because if she goes the attention will change on to James. James Murdoch is the heir apparent and I don’t think Rupert Murdoch will allow that so that’s why I think she will probably survive. I would look in the mirror and say I’ve messed up.”

With a grimace, Chris Bryant recalls the last time he met Rupert Murdoch's embattled lieutenant Rebekah Brooks face to face.

"She came up to me and said, 'Oh, Mr Bryant, it's after dark - shouldn't you be on Clapham Common?"

"At which point Ross Kemp [the ex-EastEnders actor and her then husband] said, 'Shut up, you homophobic cow'."

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23968124-some-mps-suspected-a-year-ago-but-nobody-wouldve-believed-it.do

so many bizarre tangents to this story.

"At which point Ross Kemp [the ex-EastEnders actor and her then husband] said, 'Shut up, you homophobic cow'."

hahahaha

You slaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaag! Bet he got a right doing when he got home though.

Did he then jump over the bar and throw her out the door?

This has actually raised the possibility that she was at the time hacking HER OWN HUSBAND'S VOICEMAIL.

that's a euphemism isn't it?

i mean i'm not gonna google search it to find out

she is going to get paid handsomely for taking the flak for all this

rusbridger on a q&a right now:

Peter Oborne is right. Before the election it was common knowledge in Fleet Street that an investigator used by the NoW during Andy Coulson's editorship was on remand for conspiracy to murder. We couldn't report that due to contempt of court restrictions, but I thought it right that Cameron should know before he took any decisions about taking Andy Coulson into No 10. So I sent word via an intermediary close to Cameron. And I also told Clegg personally.

can't wait for cameron and clegg's response.

From reading the comments to that Oborne piece (I know, more fool me) I find out that James Murdoch is married to the sister of this 0_0 100% barking at the moon nutjob

Don't be a sucker!
Don't let Jewish criminals use "anti-Semitism" as a shield!

writes for the guardian?

Imagine Oborne approves of him more than his brother-in-law

C4 News: Met Police confirms there are 4,000 names in approximately 11,000 pages of material that they are looking at in phone-hacking investigation.

xp
Who's that then?

http://www.erichufschmid.net/img/Frightened-Sheeple.png

'frightenedsheeple.png' a new twist on an old classic

Dave Gorman has quit his News Of The World column following the scandal over phone-hacking.

"you'll never find another dave gorman!"

Gonna be lots of blank pages in there this weekend eh?

Love these dudes pretending they've just cottoned on to the fact they've been in the pay of an organisation with 0 ethical standards.

Just waiting for Dr Hilary Jones to jump ship now.

really hope they bring Captain Cash back from the early 00s

its sad he was a philanphropist

Nah, he's a TV colleague of Martyn Lewis too.

amazing to go back at the responses to the guardian's 2009 story that reopened phone hacking:

a spokeswoman for Cameron said the Tory leader was "very relaxed about the story".

Murdoch told Bloomberg news last night that he knew nothing about the payments. "If that had happened I would know about it," he said.

a spokeswoman for Cameron said the Tory leader was "very relaxed about the story".

Funnily enough I'm very relaxed about the story, in fact I'm loving every fucking minute of it

Today's Page 3, apparently:

http://www.bloggerheads.com/images/page3-notw.jpg

What not to do

NoTW running NO advertising Sunday.

What, not even incontinencs pads? I might buy it just to see what that looks like.

http://www.brandrepublic.com/news/1079108/news-world-pulls-ads-client-exodus/

My mum buys it, must ask her if she'll still be buying it... probably will

Maybe it'll be 64 pages or whatever of Bart Simpson writing out an apology.

NoTW running NO advertising Sunday

No adverts on their webpages at the moment either

http://extras.newsoftheworld.co.uk/allnew/splash_statement.jpg

Not a very glamourous look for the Death Eaters.

Behind the paywall though:
http://i457.photobucket.com/albums/qq300/skatrinas/haters-gonna-hate.gif

NoTW running NO advertising Sunday.

inadvertently styled that like a NoTW quote. Maybe a new career beckons?

NoTW to close?

Yup, James Murdoch says this weekend is last edition

Sweet. Dunno what my Mum's going to read on Sundays now tho.