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

Kind of tragic that the NotW ass.ed they got to appear on Newsnight, David Wooding, is a scouser and, apparently, an LFC fan.

BTW this could extend to Les Hinton, currently editor of the Wall Street Journal.

Kirsty Wark did that to Miliband earlier, she made him look completely spineless.

That interview was the first time in my life I have found myself admiring KW!

Blimey, Grant vs Gaunt is AMAZING.

Hugh Grant coming across surprisingly well here.

found a Question Time stream --

http://www.justin.tv/wmc_tv#/w/1439497872

anybody know where I might find Newsnight online?

stream bbc2 through a uk proxy

i wonder what nick clegg has to say about all this...

woops forgot that i don't care

tbf pol pot would look sympathetic next to gaunty

it's quite sad how much better than anyone else on this panel hugh grant comes across

of all the films of the past decade i imagined would come true, love actually was not top of the list

Woodward says he's never heard of anything like this, says the closure is "like a plea deal", says it will "unleash everything"

sorta hate him tho

the photo of rebecca brooks leaving the paper today is a doozy

"Goodbye, Cruel World" - Telegraph wins tomorrow's front page headlines.

Still think Woodward is close to the truth though tbh

WmC, they show Newsnight on C-Span.

what did Woodward say?

oops sorry

hugh grant is pretty much a national treasure now, right?

can't believe i missed the wark/e-mili thing, those were the minutes i was being deafened by QT

hugh grant is the new joanna lumley

did not know the notw was the biggest selling english language newspaper in the world. guess it's not that surprising.

incidentally, this isn't strictly speaking the right thread but it feels appropriate that it happened today: guess who's on twitter now! http://twitter.com/marinahyde

wish i'd watched grant being a national treasure on qt instead of milliband being a national wet rag on nn.

Who has been in bed with NI in more ways than one.
xpost

xxxp supposedly the most read. the times of india claims over 3m copies a day sold - i think the notw claim is based on some bogus "readership" figure, with several people reading each copy.

Who has been in bed with NI in more ways than one.

the kind of comment that makes me realise once again how necessary it is for feminists to yell at people

xps - I thought it was the Times of India?

Sorry missed joe's post. What he said.

having max clifford as yr character witness is probably nagl right now

readership's not a totally bogus figure -- it's way better than TV audience figures at least. NoTW's readership was massive. 7.4m in total, 3m ABC1.

@lex - to work for the Sun may be regarded as misfortune; to shag Piers Morgan looks like carelessness.

what a trite observation

in basically 100% of cases, though, it holds true that when a dude automatically judges a woman primarily on her sexual partners, it tells us more about him than her

in this case it's such a bloody overdone observation to point out that she once shagged piers morgan, i mean how many years is it now?

xps I can't believe that 'several' people don't read copies of the Times of India.

Yeah, Times of India is bigger. I think NoTW used to be, back when circ was 4m+. Those numbers are kinda staggering, still. It was bigger than NYTimes + USA Today put together.

assuming Murdoch had a choice who to throw under the bus, why coulson over brooks/wade?

Because Brooks is the last barrier before you get to James. If shuttering Screws doesn't work, which it hasn't, he needs to be able to throw a final sacrifice on the pile to say "look, now it's *really* all over".

By keeping Brooks despite all the calls for her head, he makes her ultimately going a much bigger deal.

Already out of NI. xpost

Gotta love hate Piers Morgan.
http://twitter.com/#!/piersmorgan/statuses/89092189711368192

piers morgan edited the mirror at the time it was the no2 newspaper for using private detectives convicted of illegally obtaining private information. wonder what his agenda is?

Stay in America as long as possible hopefully? Sorry, America.

well, i'm hoping we can extradite him at some point.

maybe piers should hold off his bid for "world's worst appalling cunt" till the field is a little less crowded.

this is turning into one of those great moments when every apologist who rolls up on the media can be safely filed in the "cunt 4 lyfe" drawer

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Toby Young is sad

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eh at least you were saved the bother of rearranging the drawers.

Pretty galling to see the senior NOTW on Newsnight claiming they were just innocent victims in all this and everything bad was done by a previous generation. I assume each and every one of them will be okay on their £300k a week benefits that are really easy to get.

Well, I was thinking of a friend who works there as a sub, and how stunned the person must be.

I'm more and more conflicted about this, yeah it's shitty that people lose their jobs to save their bosses (who are going down whatever I think), but then you consider the fucking poison that paper spewed out week in week out.

If the arms industry collapsed tomorrow I'm not sure I'd be too worried about the admin staff.

um yeah this isn't exactly bombardier

...but mainly, it's unjust that Brooks hasn't lost her job along with the rest.