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

NI was already merging all the back-office crew etc anyway.

I've got friends who work at the NoTW, and yeah, this is shit news for them but at the same time they were pretty frank about the deal they struck working for it.

and Police.. (xp)

So, what happens now with ACoulson?

Jemima Kiss just tweeted saying he was to be arrested today.

oops Jemima Khan

Don't have much sympathy for the paper's news hacks frankly, I get more sympathetic the lower down the ladder you go. Especially when you consider the people responsible could still walk away scot-free.

Coulson looks completely fucked whatever happens, for perjury if nothing else.

rofllin' (xp)

is it perjury at a select committee? or did coulson testify in court?

Rebekah Brooks apparently told staff "The Guardian newspaper were out to get us, and they got us" at a 'tearful meeting'. OK now it's time for the tiny violin.

http://twitter.com/#!/LiterallyJamie/status/89002168211869696

Lord Prescott: Closure of News of the World is a 'management stunt'; 'no doubt it will become the Sunday Sun'

Nooh, man! It's ach forget it..

yeah there are people at the bottom end of the ladder who are just happy to have a job and yeah it wd be dickish to gloat at them, but i do think if you have any choice then who you work for is a decision you shd consider the ethical implications of

Caek:

(at the Sheridan trial) Mr Coulson, who was then Prime Minister David Cameron's director of communications, gave evidence that he had no knowledge of illegal activities, including payments to police officers.

sunonsunday.co.uk was reg'd on July 5.

There you go, five pounds plz.

Interesting?

http://webwhois.nic.uk/cgi-bin/whois.cgi?query=thesunonsunday.co.uk

Shit, xpost

SUPER SOARAWAY SUN SEVEN DAYS A WEEK - COMING SOON

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"Sun On Sunday's music is a kind of Rock deeply distorted and corrupted by Blues and Country, with great influences from Funk too, a sound that anyway remains always original."

www.sunonsunday.com

thanks nick

and am i right in thinking it's not perjury in front of a select committee?

no i don't think they're sworn in as they are in congressional hearings in the States

isn't there some ye ancient law about mis-statements to parliament?

might only apply to MPs

there's all that stuff about it not being on to use the word "liar"

but that's definitely only mps

yeah there are people at the bottom end of the ladder who are just happy to have a job and yeah it wd be dickish to gloat at them, but i do think if you have any choice then who you work for is a decision you shd consider the ethical implications of

Yeah I'd agree with that I think. I certainly don't think the journalists are exactly blameless.

Meanwhile, a film critic speaks

can i just say, i'm having a lovely time!

Doubtless!

Trying to think of another brand that became so toxic that it had to be shut down so quickly. Even Fanta survived and that was Hitler's soft drink.

bbc has 'just found out' abt the newly-registered web addresses

i can't help wondering what happens to the photos "in the vault", i.e. that were taken by paps and bought for a certain amount of time by interested parties in order to keep them hidden

Yeah I'd agree with that I think. I certainly don't think the journalists are exactly blameless.
The news staff, no, but mind there were a lot of people working on things like the fashion/features pages and supplements etc who could have been pretty insulated from the news desk.

Thing is if I was a fashion journalist with options and was offered a job by, say, Richard Desmond or Paul Dacre I'd certainly think hard about whether I wanted to support that person. Suspect most ppl at the NOTW had options when they joined - it's a tough place to get hired by.

upgrade from "she should consider her position"

Labour Party leader Ed Miliband told the BBC that while the closure of the paper was a "big decision", it did not solve the problem.
"One of the people who is remaining in their jobs is Rebekah Brooks. She should go, she should take responsibility," he said.
"The idea that she is leading the investigation, overseeing it with the police, well, it beggars belief."

But yes I know journalists need to eat too and I've lost count of the number of Mail writers I've met who are at pains to say they don't agree with its politics but it still feels like something of a mealy-mouthed objection.

Xpost - this has come at EXACTLY the right time for Ed Miliband, if he looks decisive on this it could mitigate the disaster of that interview last week.

Reaction from Justice Secretary Ken Clarke: "All they're going to do is rebrand it".

and axe 350 jobs, according to the (i guess, former) features editor on twitter.

brooks had 2 security guards with her when she went to newsroom for her cry

Why aren't they going for 'the Sun-day' is my question

Ken Clarke must be pissing himself laughing right now.

also lol fuck notw and hope this does have some backlash for the sun and the times and sky and fox and is the first step in making murdoch have to live out a 'ketchup - catsup - ketchup - catsup...' moment.

(of course it won't but a brother can dream.)

hope this does have some backlash for the sun and the times and sky and fox

yeah this'll be key. tactical masterstroke by murdoch & brooks in the circs but if the link between NOTW and the rest of NI, and bskyb, can just be hammered home, and if public outrage isn't placated...

Someone was quick:

https://twitter.com/TheSunOnSunday

"In your homes, in your lives" loooooool

Meanwhile in Idaho:

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2011/7/7/1310058074018/Rupert-Murdoch-007.jpg

a good one to follow for reaction inside NOTW: http://twitter.com/sophyridge

"They cleared out all the bad people. They bought in a great new editor, Colin Myler, and his deputy, Victoria Newton, who had not been sullied by any of the things that had gone on in the past.

Colin Myler get sacked from the Mirror for fucking up a £6m trial, but I'm sure Victoris Newton is completely blameless. Except for being deputy editor of the NOTW.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/newsbook/2011/07/newspapers?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/theendoftheworldasweknowit

Printers’ ink runs in the veins of Rupert Murdoch, the boss of News Corporation. But from a pure business perspective (and James Murdoch tends to take that perspective on things) the loss of the News of the World is not at all painful. In a good year, News International’s four papers—the Sun, the News of the World, the Times and the Sunday Times—are marginally profitable. BSkyB, which News Corporation wants to buy, is likely to make more than £1 billion in profit this year.

The shenanigans at the News of the World have already slowed the attempt to purchase BSkyB, and may yet stymie it altogether. This is not just the tail wagging the dog. It is the tail threatening to strangle the dog. It needed to be cut off.