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

the most hilarious thing would be that if ofcom declared news corp not "fit and proper" not only could murdoch not buy the extra 61% of shares but it would have to sell the ones it currently owns already.

not so much on of the common people then.

*one

whoa no way would i have ever guessed a senior media exec might know some rich and/or famous people, thanks channel 4

Shouldn't there be a little picture of Ross Kemp in the corner looking sad and not linked to any of them?

Hmmm again:

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Says elsewhere that he and others will have a site launching tomorrow with more.

another American writes: I'm told that your libel laws are much more restrictive than ours. How does this affect UK version of tabloidism, among its producers and consumers? Also, wondering if Coulson as gateway between tabloid phone hacking and govt. might befit both? Re What If It Happened Here, I suddenly almost remember that our Govt already listens in on everybody anyway. President Bachman will no doubt remind us with her usual grace, should need ever arise (if Rupert hasn't quite acquired the NYTimes yet, for inst)(Rachel Whetstone of Google is in family tree also? Oh good)

Any guesses?

9.58pm: The Metropolitan Police has just announced that it has arrested a man in connection with Operation Elveden, the investigation into inappropriate payments to police.

The 63-year-old man was arrested at a residential address in Surrey at 8.22pm. He is the third person to have been arrested tonight in connection with the alleged corrupt payments probe

The Met said in a statement:

The Metropolitan Police Service has this evening [8 July 2011] arrested a member of the public in connection with allegations of corruption.

At 20:22 hrs officers from the MPS' Operation Weeting together with officers from Op Elveden arrested a man on suspicion of corruption allegations contrary to Section 1 of the Prevention of Corruption Act 1906.

The man, aged 63, was arrested at a residential address in Surrey. A search is ongoing at this address.

The Operation Weeting team is conducting the new investigation into phone hacking.

Operation Elveden is the investigation into allegations of inappropriate payments to police. This investigation is being supervised by the IPCC.

searching 'news of the world born 1948' brought up sven-goran eriksson. so let's go with that.

Meantime, a detail towards the end:

After the final edition of the newspaper closes on Saturday, employees were informed that they will be allowed to keep their phones but must leave all other electronic equipment in the office, at the instructions, staff were told, of the police investigating phone hacking. They will not be allowed to return unsupervised. “The whole newsroom is basically going to be a crime scene,” the person present said. Police had also been behind the banning of external Web sites in the office Friday, to prevent leaks.

i think greg miskiw, former assistant editor who was rebekah brooks' first hire at the notw, is in his 60s now.

According to the Mail you're spot on:

Sources confirmed that police are ready to arrest another former News of the World executive, Greg Miskiw, who is believed to be out of the country, over the hacking scandal.

Yet apparently not out of the country now, if it was him.

i've been reading too much about this :/

really good stuff in the telegraph about this

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/8626421/Phone-hacking-David-Cameron-is-not-out-of-the-sewer-yet.html

So I gather Oborne is one of those Tory types that never fully bought Cameron or...?

Although I see from reading further he's trying to give him some benefit of the doubt.

not really a longstanding opponent, no:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron/8514174/David-Cameron-has-the-makings-of-a-truly-great-prime-minister.html

Roffle. Yeah, having read to the end of it I'm noticing the paeans more clearly. "If only he wasn't a sharp-suited operator!"

i think he's weirdly naive for an experienced hack, which is why he's so outraged in his disappointment.

Eh, he's like most sports columnists, then.

Meanwhile is this guy generally laughed at or not or...

http://iaindale.com/posts/i-admit-it-i-was-wrong

Watching Newsnight, it's odd to find that I still think Steve Coogan is more of a prick than any of the actual villains of this whole thing.

Apart from the PIs who were charged with putting an axe in that other PI's head but whose trial recently collapsed, obv.

what is this fuckery on newsnight

c'mon steve, punch the cunt

is mcmullan drunk

they've managed to find the worst possible representatives for both sides of the argument. painful.

I think he's always drunk. Still prefer him to Coogan though.

godwin's law? ugh

coogan is on newsnight?

doing partridge?

tbh prefer comedian who has seen better days to creepy news intl psychopath

Well, I saw about 3 mins, it wasn't Partridge, no.

loved emily saying "you seem like a tortured soul" <3

every cunt on the internet i can see is saying that coogan was great.

he kept saying "you just want to sell papers". not just an idiot, a boring idiot.

well considering his opponent was claiming to be the guardian of justice and public decency...

Meantime:

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mcmullan is unquestionably kinda lol but mostly sad. steve coogan's self-righteousness, and the standing ovation he seems to have received from every cock in media via twitter, is vomit-inducing though.

think mcmullan is a bit beyond 'lol but mostly sad' tbqh

mcmullan kinda sad but mostly despicable. TV should probably end its codependent relationship with him.

mcmullan feels like someone a twitter version of someone committing suicide by cop at this stage. i wasn't kidding when i said he seemed like a sociopath.

i don't disagree and

xpost i think we just saw that happen.

he also sounds like someone with an IQ of about 80 but an unusually good vocabulary

more of an addict's mentality imo - he's just doing whatever it takes for the appearance fee.

surely he doesn't get paid to be on newsnight?

not sure? i think you can, think it's seen more like paying for an op-ed than paying for a news story. don't really believe he'd do it otherwise, but i was thinking about how he seems to have been everywhere atm. i worry about his pub customers, dying of thirst.

you'd think not. there really does seem to be something disturbingly masochistic about each of his appearances, or maybe they're more akin to self-harming?

either way, he's nothing. steve coogan otoh speaks like he's crusading on behalf of the moral welfare of all of us, when all that really lies behind his outrage is his own phone being accessed and hacks appearing on his doorstep.

Isn't that enough?

tbh prefer comedian who has seen better days speaking like he's crusading on behalf of the moral welfare of all of us than a pox-ridden psychotic ex-hack attempting same