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

(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...

Today, at 3:30pm, I put on my coat and left the office.

Over an hour later, I got a call from my boss: “Just a heads up,” he said, “but the News of the World is closing on Sunday.”

There aren’t really any words to describe the feeling I experienced at that moment – I don’t work for NotW, I’m not a journalist, but I do work for the company. And I know how much the majority of the people who work there – innocent, hard working people, getting all their information about the alleged past times of our predecessors from the TV along with the rest of the public – are hurting.

So apparently C4 news is where a lot of stuff is going down? This from friend Sophie on Twitter:

Anonymous sexual abuse victim on C4 news saying NOTW hounded her with info they could only have got from her confidential police statement.

wait is this where lol NOTW talk is going down?

Also:

Channel 4 News is screening a secretly filmed interview with Glenn Mulcaire, the private investigator jailed for hacking phones.

Mulcaire said he was given the names of targets to hack "by committee".

This would appear to contradict News International consistent defence that the hacking was the result of one rogue reporter.

Mulcaire admitted some of his actions were morally questionable.

"It does bring you into areas that are grey," he said.

Mulcaire also said his family had suffered as a result of the hacking scandal.

c4 news killing it again tonight

xp to Ned C4 has been doing some good stuff on all this, yes, but the Guardian is at the centre of the investigation. i'm expecting the NYT to have some interesting stuff to say too, they've been running an investigation also/

Thanks; I only meant it in a 'hey check this out right now' sense in that I gather the Guardian had been doing the heavy lifting.

GatherED, rather. Tenses!

sorry, and gotcha!

telegraph picked up a bit over the last 48 hours. my brother is their security correspondent. called him tonight to find out what the atmosphere is like, but i think he's in a pub somewhere, as presumably are quite a lot of journalists tonight.

Caek are you secretly at the center of the UK control clique and we missed it? We should have gotten you more drunk during your visit out here so we could blackmail Prince Philip or something.

GeorgeMichael

Rebekah Brooks sat two feet from me in my own home and told me that it was never the public that came to them with information.....
6 minutes ago via web

on celebrities, and that the Police always got there first. I think thats enough to be going on with. (Don't ask me how she got there)..
3 minutes ago via web

Believe me I didnt invite her.
3 minutes ago via web

Really appreciate everything you come up with and post here Ned. Just hope you didn't hack someone's phone to get the news ;)

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxps

did brooks break into his house?

Just hope you didn't hack someone's phone to get the news ;)

Would you mind not moving around so much, the signal is breaking up.

Sorry Ned, that was the van outside your home a-rocking. Will tell the boys in the back to be quiet from now on

Mail headline: THE PAPER THAT DIED OF SHAME

I can't even

haha omg

haha ned. my brother does usually have good (unpublishable) stories from gchq or about computer hacking, but sadly no prince philip stuff.