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

Guardian sez bid withdrawn.

i'm surprised The Sun didn't just photoshop horns onto that photo of Brown + halo of flames

even by the standards of the Sun, those seemed low blows. Basically "lol Brown RONG u suck, we may have splashed news of your sick child all over our rag, but we didn't hack your phone", as if that makes it all okay.

Also, the current "Yeah, we said we were a relation of xxx and they Gave us all the bank accounts" seems perfectly alright as well.

So NI has withdrawn its bid for BSkyB

xposts

Ed, how is America treating this (outside places like Gawker/NYT)?

All I know is it made it onto the Today show (seen in the diner at breakfast time), not really paid attention to other newsmedia outside my leftie bubble.

So, presumably, vote is now off?

MPs should vote to allow the bid to take place, just to piss off the Murdoch family

Vote is now off, yes.

damn shame: http://www.foxnewsuk.com/

where did this idea come from? they had to give up Sky News to get the BSkyB deal thru in the first place?

yeah but now they CAN have a fox news in their non-monopolised satelite television

except for the neutrality stuff. i thought we could already get American Fox News tbh. it'll never work over here, imagine anybody sober tuning in to Toby Young's Grind the Poor.

Unfortunately know too many people who would lap up that shit.

i mean they wouldn't go for any of that pansy crying shit glenn beck stuff but they'd enjoy edl news all the same

it'll never work over here, imagine anybody sober tuning in to Toby Young's Grind the Poor.

heh you've never heard LBC then

It's been over a year. You guys should really start a new thread with a different thread title that doesn't make me want to claw my eyes out.

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nah go ahead and claw

"Jitters Spread To US":
(url)http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/13/us-newscorp-brand-idUSTRE76C7HP20110713(/url)

Seems unlikely Justice Dept will actually go after James Murdoch, despite prev mention of his allegedly possible/possibly alleged violation of US law against improper international business dealings. They're otherwise engaged: for instance, gearing up threats vs medical marijuana (legal in several states, but that's even more of a pisser).

sorry I messed up that link:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/13/us-newscorp-brand-idUSTRE76C7HP20110713

Anyone else see the Evening Standard last night called phone hacking scandal Britain - End Of Season Finale? Do Evening Standard hacks read ILX or did Matt DC get that from somewhere else?

Of all ES writers, I'm sure Richard Godwin is the most likely to rip off comments from ILX.

I think it got out there thru twitter

ok can i ask why did Private Eye call NotW News of the Screws instead of the much better Screws of the World?

Because they're not really bothered about what happens in other countries?

i've always heard it as news of the screws fwiw

There can always re-launch as News of the Screws when half the staff only have prison officers to talk to all day.

There They

LATEST: Detectives have told a cousin of Jean Charles de Menezes his number was found on the phone-hacking list of a News of the World private investigator. More details soon …

Is there anybody they didn't try hacking?

Not me, afaik!

/family-of-7/7-victim

/family-of-7/7-victim

oh man, i didn't know that

Seconded ;_;

Oh yeah one was of this parish too..

Liz :x

mm hmm.

I still can't get my head around that one tbh

And that's a long time now

pfft its fine, my sis is still alive.

well..

Moving on!

What about old Gordon 'Bonkers' Brown then? Bear with a sore head or what?

i actually feel for gordon brown but it's just sad that standing in the back of the commons reading out old newspaper articles about his premiership is pretty much how people expected it to pan out for him

It was amusing that it was all "A good day for the House of Commons... HYEAH... HYEAH!" "I think the degree of consensus shown in the House has been most commendable... HYEAH... HYEAH!" "I hope we have regained some of the public's respect... HYEAH... HYEAH!" The Gordy comes along with his hobnail boots and is like, "Here, gerrit up ye, ye Tory cunts!"

Friend whose uncle is something in the Scottish Labour Party said yesterday that Brown is right to be angry and the stalky hacking is worse than reported.

This whole Neil Wallis thing is fucking nuts.

Scotland Yard have admitted they employed Neil Wallis, the former executive at the News of the World who was arrested today in the phone hacking inquiry, as an adviser to the commissioner until September of last year, Vikram Dodd, our crime correspondent, reports.

Wallis was employed to advise Sir Paul Stephenson and John Yates on a part-time basis from October 2009 to September 2010. During this time Scotland Yard said there was no need to reopen the phone hacking investigation, a decision made by Yates, despite allegations in the Guardian that the first police investigation into the scandal had been inadequate.

Wallis joined the News of the World from in 2003 as deputy to then editor Andy Coulson. In mid-2007 he became executive editor and left the News International title in 2009.

Police say he supplied "strategic communications advice", and the Met said his company was chosen because it offered to do the work for the lowest price.

Yes, we certainly are all in this together!

He may be an undeniably massive cunt who deserves to die in a fire, but remember last year when it came out that John Terry found a tracking device on his car? I wonder which newspaper put it there etc etc.

Tradition...tradition!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14160709