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

anybody who's too shit to get a gig in the home of Mock the Week has gotta be pretty special

the daily show: i don't get it

newsnight is ~2x funnier

Ed Miliband has always kept News International at arm's length.

http://twitpic.com/5oz37k

He's just trying to memorise the keyword off the Holiday Voucher.

Wait what is wrong with Oliver? He is so much better than mock the week brigstoke types

Could have been much worse, dave Gorman interviewed for the daily show at the same time iirc

John Yates: not even remotely shifty or evasive.

Had a good chat with my 'Met insider' in the pub last night, he reckons Blair, Stephenson, Clarke, Hayman, Yates are all culpable in one way or another... he also reckons they're a bunch of arseholes in one way or another (some stupid, some bad, some even mad(!))

john oliver actually appeared on mock the week a few years back xps

oliver was OK, stewart's OTT reaction drowned out the actual story though.

Wait what is wrong with Oliver?

not funny.

it is so weird cause he is always, always lights-out brilliant on the Bugle

Times still going pretty hard on this (obviously) -

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/13/world/europe/13hacking.html

He said he was unconcerned about reports that his phone may have been hacked. The only thing anyone would have discovered was his "shopping list" and the gold tee off time, he said.

this is so tone deaf it almost reminds me of

"Is it a book that you would even wish your wife or your servants to read?"

hayman is awful. "it would have been more suspicious NOT to have had dinners with the people i was investigating and then to accept a job from them."

interesting details at the end of that article on gordon brown about hacks paying police for access to location data, or "pinging" as they apparently called it.

i imagine this was mainly used for pap shots? could have been for any and everything though, i guess

Separately, an inquiry by The New York Times, which included interviews with two former journalists at The News of the World, has revealed the workings of the illicit cellphone tracking, which the former tabloid staffers said was known in the newsroom as “pinging.” Under British law, the technology involved is restricted to law enforcement and security officials, requires case-by-case authorization, and is used mainly for high-profile criminal cases and terrorism investigations, according to a former senior Scotland Yard official who requested anonymity so as to be able to speak candidly.

According to Oliver Crofton, a cybersecurity specialist who works to protect high-profile clients from such invasive tactics, cellphones are constantly pinging off relay towers as they search for a network, enabling an individual’s location to be located within yards by checking the strength of the signal at three different towers. But the former Scotland Yard official who discussed the matter said that any officer who agreed to use the technique to assist a newspaper would be crossing a red line.

“That would be a massive breach,” he said.

A former show business reporter for The News of the World, Sean Hoare, who was fired in 2005, said that when he worked there, pinging cost the paper nearly $500 on each occasion. He first found out how the practice worked, he said, when he was scrambling to find someone and was told that one of the news desk editors, Greg Miskiw, could help. Mr. Miskiw asked for the person’s cellphone number, and returned later with information showing the person’s precise location in Scotland, Mr. Hoare said.

Oh boy that guy was a creepy arsehole.

How long till we find out someone was incepted?

that hayman guy was a piece of work

what are caek's feelings about nicola blackwood? not sure if i should be feeling.... shame

Asked if he ever accepted money as a police officer, Mr Hayman reacts with surprise, saying: "Good God - absolutely not, I can't believe you suggested that."

He describes the question as "a real attack on my integrity".

Giving the game away there, I'd say

"I was off-duty at the time, m'lud."

He describes the question as "a real attack on my integrity".

Giving the game away there, I'd say

― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Tuesday, July 12, 2011 2:00 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

this was hilarious, the mock indignity after __ minutes of geezerishness. he didn't take money as a police officer. he just became a news international columnist immediately after losing his job [for fiddling his expenses?]

blackwood was the year above me at st anne's. i did not vote for her in 2010. that is all i wish to say.

Labour MP Tom Watson says Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch and his son James have been summoned to appear before the Culture, Media and Sport Committee but he believes they may not all turn up.

"There's lot of arcane procedure as to this but we will be sitting next Tuesday and we expect them to be there. I suspect that some of them might be too cowardly to turn up but that's up to them to decide."

this guy

he's practising his chicken dance as we type

Tom was Pres of the Students Union when I was at Hull. Lovely bloke. We was at slightly different wings of the party politics-wise tho.

Murdoch will reply to Watson's chicken strut with The Wiz dance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRf_A07Elyw

I thought you'd mentioned that before but I wasn't sure, kept wanting to refer to him NV's mate (xp)

Patricia Clegg in Essex emails: "I was astounded at the behaviour of the Select Committee - the bullying of witnesses was beyond belief. When phone hacking first emerged, there was a high level of terrorist threat and I would have wanted the Met to concentrate on that rather than pursuing phone hacking - unless it related directly to terrorism. It is very distressing for people such as the Dowler family and for Gordon Brown having his son's illness publicised, but if it is a choice between this and preventing terrorist atrocities, then the Met have to concentrate on the latter."

What is it with these Cleggs?

http://images.icnetwork.co.uk/upl/huddexaminer/dec2008/9/1/440058C5-F3C5-37E3-E2C9868EE13DEC33.jpg

'appen we're a bunch o' Tory twats, lad

Ian Williams in Newmarket emails: Keith Vaz is displaying an extraordinary level of arrogance and lack of respect towards senior police officers. I can only conclude MPs feel they are entitled to display righteousness (in front of the cameras) given that it was the press and police that exposed their near criminal behaviour with regard to expenses. The behaviour of this committee can best be described as churlish!

Don't remember the police doing much exposing of expenses.

can't believe elected officials failed to show respect to devious, corrupt cops

If cops can't keep the general public in line, it'll have to be the press...

The gov will be supporting the Labour motion calling for Rupe to back off BSkyB. Hunt will be abstaining, because he is a Hunt.

Ah, nice, they all in agree.

supporting the labour motion's wording? which is "withdraw" (not "postpone" or whatever)

s'what the Beeb just said

LOL Tories

including "withdraw"...altho i guess that could read as "withdraw, for now...*wink wink*...until things settle down like". form of words is reasonably negligible at the mo i'd've thought

Just repeated on the news headlines, unambiguously they will support the motion.

can EMil tack a "halt all privatizations" clause onto this motion now for a lol?

Wow.

As I say, it's not unusual for a motion to get all-party support, but for one raised by the oppo party to get that kinda support..

What did the Tories say, "yeah... fair play to yez, let's do it!"

nationalise BSkyB

can EMil tack a "halt all privatizations" clause onto this motion now for a lol?

― Everyday is a Whining Choad (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 15:07 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Only if he uses the English spelling!!

there are several threads about the s/z issue, but my main thinking is that spelling "correctly" is the hobgoblin of small minds

meanwhile, I listened to a lot of Yates' testimony to the committee this morning and i still don't understand why he thought it was cool to drop the original hacking investigation after 8 hours' perusal of an 11,000 page document.

http://www.satcha.co.uk/image/cache/data/LS00130%20-%20Croc%20Studded%20Satchel%20Handbag%20With%20Buckle%20Detail-38x38.jpg