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

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.

http://www.sundaysun.co.uk/videos-pics/2011/07/03/ghostly-orbs-haunting-tyneside-home-part-1-79310-28984912/

The Sun on Sunday has a tough act to follow.

Really what we need is someone at the Sun/Times/Sky News/Fox News/whatever their American paper is to be caught hacking as well. And that Murdoch told them to.

Somewhere out there people are racing to break the record for the world's fastest Downfall parody.

Does listening to The Bugle or watching The Simpsons make me a tory who loves Murdoch? Never paid attention to this moral quandary before.

Is your name Mumford, Son of.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtk3yLVUOKg&feature=youtu.be tho doesn't include NoTW shutting.

Newsnight is going to be an absolute humdinger tonight.

has been all week

is murdoch jr american?

hugh grant and ilx favourite gaunty on question time

Murdoch Jr went to college with me; I met him once when he was in full hippie trustafarian mode and claiming all he wanted to do was make sculpture and follow bands on tour

(so while it's not SURPRISING to see him making statements in his current position, it is a little weird)

terrible cunt, but he was actually pretty impressive in that bbc interview.

just in terms of not coming across like a sociopath i mean. setting the bar low.

Sky says Brooks offered to resign twice.

JM dropped out of Harvard to help launch Rawkus right?

Wait, I thought that was another Murdoch.

But having checked, yeah, it was him. Confusing him and Lachlan or whatever his name is.

Anyway, roffles:

Journalist Neal Mann, a prolific news tweeter under the @fieldproducer moniker, posts:

@fieldproducer Source tells me News Of The World journalists were told Rebecca Brooks offered her resignation twice and she was turned down both times

@fieldproducer I'm told all journalists at the News of the World cheered when a staff member said they would accept her resignation #NOTW

many of them will surely accept fat pay-offs too

awes opportunity to fire the cunts and rehire w/ lesser contracts at the new entirely different sun on sunday

dunno who the Beeb guy was interviewing JM earlier today but props to him for beginning a question with the words "Rebecca Brooks was a journalist who came through the bowels of your organisation..."

channel 4 loving this

yeh i lol'd at that Mencap

Hmm...

7.25pm: Labour MP Tom Watson, who has been one of the key players in driving the phone hacking agenda, has just told Channel 4 news that there is more evidence against the Murdoch empire, which involves "the use of computer hacking", and will "cross over into other News International newspapers".

Not knowing Watson's rep at all, I have no idea to guess whether this is hyperbole or not, so I rely on your judgment.

I do know his '82 chip shot is one of the best things I've ever seen in a golf tournament

FTW

Did you see that on the day? I was glued to the TV for it.

Yeah, it was incredible! I've still never seen anything like that since (one of the reasons I don't watch golf anymore, actually)

Dilemma: Newsnight or Question Time?

Is Peter Oborne going to be on either of those...could be the decider.

On the panel: the actor Hugh Grant; Employment Minister Chris Grayling; Shadow Foreign Secretary Douglas Alexander; Liberal Democrat peer Baroness Shirley Williams; and the radio presenter and former Sun columnist Jon Gaunt with an invited audience.

Tom Watson's sound on this. He's been working hard trying to expose it and get any sort of media traction on it for years.

horrible temptation to buy the notw on sunday. THEY'VE WON.

we should probably have gone for a new thread with this one eh.

is there a diff between offering to resign and just straight resigning?

dansabbagh

Rebekah Brooks did not offer to resign, say NC insiders
16 minutes ago via web

also http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/07/andy-coulson-arrest-phone-hacking

Andy Coulson has been told by police that he will be arrested on Friday morning over suspicions that he knew about, or had direct involvement in, the hacking of mobile phones during his editorship of the News of the World.

i didn't know one was warned in advance of one's own arrest

Yeah, offering to resign means you're saying "I'll quit if you want me to", resigning means "I quit".

arrest warning isn't totally uncommon for high profile/political stuff.

The Guardian understands that a second arrest is also to be made in the next few days of a former senior journalist at the paper.

Leaks from News International forced police to speed up their plans to arrest the two key suspects in the explosive phone-hacking scandal.

The Guardian knows the identity of the second suspect but is witholding the name in order to avoid prejudicing the ongoing police investigation.

Clearly it's:

http://www.realbollywood.com/up_images/lineker-gary8463.jpg

Oh hang on...