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

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.

― kkvgz, 2011年7月13日 星期三 下午10:26 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban

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

And here we go:

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation will probe allegations that Rupert Murdoch's News Corp hacked into the phone records of victims of the Sept. 11, 2011, attacks on the United States, the agency said on Thursday.

"We're looking into allegations raised by the letter by Peter King yesterday," said an FBI source, asking not to be identified.

King, a Republican lawmaker from New York, had called for the investigation.

The Telegraph, based on its 19.52 post, hasn't cottoned on yet about King's, shall we say, interesting past given the IRA...

what's that now?

Quick precis

News International is planning to book advertising space for a full page apology in a range of national newspapers over the weekend as the publisher seeks to draw a line under the News of the World phone-hacking scandal and start the slow process of rebuilding its tarnished image.

The publisher of the Times, Sunday Times and Sun has also tentatively sounded out advertiser reaction to launching the Sun on Sunday on 7 August, the weekend before the start of the Premier League season, when the now defunct News of the World traditionally put out a bumper issue.

"We're sorry we got caught."

Rupert Murdoch, ladies and gentlemen:

"I'll get over it. I'm tired."

No mention in that one of emerging questions about the Wall St. Journal's own topcats (but surely he checked in with WSJ reporters to reassure them, how thoughtful). Four Demo senators also requested the FBI's investigation, which has now commenced, though very professionally hush-hush (so far). Be interesting to see if any of Peter King's fellow Crazytown colleagues will follow his possible lapse into lucidity, or will Rush warn them off (does he consider himself a rival of Rupert's? Or the enemy of my enemy etc? Might be too bad Beck has left Fox, although his defense of Rupert might not have had the desired effect, if he'd even bothered, in the last year or so). the xp mention of James Murdoch possibly violating Uncle Sam's Corrupt Foreigh Practices Act (may not be exact name) could lead to re-examination of Murdoch's American business licenses, for inst by FCC, re "fit and proper"clause (seldom invoked, though.) Latebreaking: Rupert may als oface probes Down Under.

lol at the idea of the FCC ever acting on anything other than enriching the current crop of broadcasters

uh somehow the UK and US politics threads got switched around

In that vein: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/14/hacking-murdoch-paid-us-lobbyists

This whole Neil Wallis thing is fucking nuts.

― dog latrine (NickB), Thursday, July 14, 2011 4:59 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

yeah add that to andy hayman becoming an NI columnist propagandizing for the met and, well, shit.

Brooks has resigned.

no sword handy for her to fall on?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/8639163/Phone-Hacking-Rupert-Murdochs-daugher-in-furious-attack-on-Rebekah-Brooks.html

hmmmm

r b rebekah brooks shd do the decent thing and spread shit everywhere

yeah well obv she is now totally off the Murdoch pay-roll and will in no way continue to be supported by him