fry and laurie sketch on rubert murdoch from 1995 -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/clips/p00j5rz8/a_bit_of_fry_and_laurie_its_a_soaraway_life_the_rupert_murdoch_sketch/
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Monday, 18 July 2011 13:59 (twelve years ago) link
uh ruPert
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Monday, 18 July 2011 14:00 (twelve years ago) link
this hacking scandal has caused such a distraction to my work that i am also resigning today
Yes, I'm finding it really hard to concentrate today!
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Monday, 18 July 2011 14:01 (twelve years ago) link
no we have to get work done today because tomorrow it'll be impossible what with the select committee and all
― lex pretend, Monday, 18 July 2011 14:02 (twelve years ago) link
Are we getting called up, or just cited?
― Mark G, Monday, 18 July 2011 14:04 (twelve years ago) link
Don't think anyone could blame me for finding "Hostile & Generous Toleration (A New Theory of Toleration)" by George Jacob Holyoake not exactly riveting
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Monday, 18 July 2011 14:05 (twelve years ago) link
Imagine the Manic Street Preachers are reading it alongside you.
― Mark G, Monday, 18 July 2011 14:07 (twelve years ago) link
xp
wd read tbh
― dave lool (Noodle Vague), Monday, 18 July 2011 14:08 (twelve years ago) link
Things are looking up, I'm on to "Life and Death (Part I. - Death)"
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Monday, 18 July 2011 14:08 (twelve years ago) link
No spoilers.
― ledge, Monday, 18 July 2011 14:09 (twelve years ago) link
Wait, part I?
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 18 July 2011 14:09 (twelve years ago) link
part 1?xp
― pandemic, Monday, 18 July 2011 14:10 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01949/boris_1949319c.jpg
― James Mitchell, Monday, 18 July 2011 14:10 (twelve years ago) link
Part II is yr phone gets hacked.
― scraping wheatus off the wheel (NickB), Monday, 18 July 2011 14:10 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― pandemic, Monday, 18 July 2011 14:11 (twelve years ago) link
Part III is You're Fired.
― Mark G, Monday, 18 July 2011 14:12 (twelve years ago) link
14.54 Boris Johnson appears to have lost his temper at a question from Jon Snow, answers in raised voice. Starting to look more flustered than usual; fiddles with his tie. And to another question - "Come on, be fair".Finally, challenged again on dismissing hacking as codswallop, says: "I misunderstood the severity of the allegations." Blames poor information he was given.
Finally, challenged again on dismissing hacking as codswallop, says: "I misunderstood the severity of the allegations." Blames poor information he was given.
This guy.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 18 July 2011 14:15 (twelve years ago) link
"Come on, be fair" shd be the Tory campaign slogan for 2012.
― dave lool (Noodle Vague), Monday, 18 July 2011 14:16 (twelve years ago) link
2.58pm: You just effectively sacked two of the most senior officers in London, the mayor is told."Yeah ... That's not an operational matter," Johnson says. And with that the press conference is over.
"Yeah ... That's not an operational matter," Johnson says. And with that the press conference is over.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 18 July 2011 14:17 (twelve years ago) link
Jon Snow?
― Spotify, Spotify me (DJP), Monday, 18 July 2011 14:18 (twelve years ago) link
... and Part II is......... Life! They got that one arse over tit there.
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Monday, 18 July 2011 14:19 (twelve years ago) link
xpost -- is this the real life, is this just fantasy, etc.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 18 July 2011 14:21 (twelve years ago) link
A sick masochistic part of me wants to turn on Fox News today.
― Josef K-Doe (WmC), Monday, 18 July 2011 14:21 (twelve years ago) link
Why are you bored of the scandal? You wpn't find it reported there.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 18 July 2011 14:22 (twelve years ago) link
ha, true. Just thought Doocey might do some more spinning, but Fox & Friends is already over today.
― Josef K-Doe (WmC), Monday, 18 July 2011 14:23 (twelve years ago) link
Death is four pages longer than Life :(
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Monday, 18 July 2011 14:26 (twelve years ago) link
Thankfully it's mostly footnotes.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 18 July 2011 14:27 (twelve years ago) link
Meantime I note Sullivan's back blogging and has things to say, thus here and here. I admit to being amused:
I've lived in America for twenty-five years, and yet I can come home as a native son and personally knew at college the current Mayor of London (an Oxford Union successor), the Foreign Secretary (an Oxford Union predecessor), the editor of the Economist (Magdalen history), and from Reigate Grammar School, the director of strategy at Number 10, the director of public prosecutions and, last but not least, Fatboy Slim.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 18 July 2011 14:30 (twelve years ago) link
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― Aa Bb Obscure Dull Blue (#000066) (schlump), Monday, 18 July 2011 14:37 (twelve years ago) link
I love how this reads:
15.40 Theresa May says the Met is stronger today than when Sir Paul Stephenson took over. She has agreed he should leave "as swiftly as possible".
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 18 July 2011 14:44 (twelve years ago) link
News America was led by Paul V. Carlucci [who engaged in unethical and illegal practices that eventually forced settlements exceeding $500 million], who, according to Forbes, used to show the sales staff the scene in “The Untouchables” in which Al Capone beats a man to death with a baseball bat. Mr. Emmel testified that Mr. Carlucci was clear about the guiding corporate philosophy. According to Mr. Emmel’s testimony, Mr. Carlucci said that if there were employees uncomfortable with the company’s philosophy — “bed-wetting liberals in particular was the description he used” Mr. Emmel testified — then he could arrange to have those employees “outplaced from the company.” … So what became of him? Mr. Carlucci, as it happens, became the publisher of The New York Post in 2005 and continues to serve as head of News America, which doesn’t exactly square with Mr. Murdoch’s recently stated desire to “absolutely establish our integrity in the eyes of the public.”
According to Mr. Emmel’s testimony, Mr. Carlucci said that if there were employees uncomfortable with the company’s philosophy — “bed-wetting liberals in particular was the description he used” Mr. Emmel testified — then he could arrange to have those employees “outplaced from the company.”
…
So what became of him? Mr. Carlucci, as it happens, became the publisher of The New York Post in 2005 and continues to serve as head of News America, which doesn’t exactly square with Mr. Murdoch’s recently stated desire to “absolutely establish our integrity in the eyes of the public.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/18/business/media/for-news-corporation-troubles-that-money-cant-dispel.html
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Monday, 18 July 2011 14:46 (twelve years ago) link
The Guardian's fault for the typo but even so:
May concludes by saying that many Met officers serve the public bravely. An officer was short in the course of his duties only three days ago. It is for their sake that these inquiries need to be successful.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 18 July 2011 14:50 (twelve years ago) link
Now, since ‘News International Associated Services’ is a News International subsidiary based in Wapping, it’s fairly clear that the GLA has paid a Murdoch company several thousand pounds for something, reasonably regularly, during 2009/2010.Around that time, we know that the now defunct Murdoch freesheet The London Paper was running advertorials for Boris’s shiny new Story of London festival:Publicity for the Story of London Festival was mainly through the GLA website, poster campaign and pamphlet supported by articles in the ‘londonpaper’.Yes, if you close down your ‘Pyong-Yang style freesheet’ you effectively end up paying, well, Rupert Murdoch to print your PR.
Around that time, we know that the now defunct Murdoch freesheet The London Paper was running advertorials for Boris’s shiny new Story of London festival:
Publicity for the Story of London Festival was mainly through the GLA website, poster campaign and pamphlet supported by articles in the ‘londonpaper’.
Yes, if you close down your ‘Pyong-Yang style freesheet’ you effectively end up paying, well, Rupert Murdoch to print your PR.
― James Mitchell, Monday, 18 July 2011 14:55 (twelve years ago) link
4.23pm: PoliticalBetting is taking the prospect of David Cameron quitting quite seriously, reports Paul Owen.The website's respected guru Mike Smithson reports that Ladbrokes has tightened the price on Cameron's being the next cabinet member to quit the government from 100/1 ten days ago to 12/1 now. Stan James offers 7/1 against Cameron not lasting the year.Of the frontrunners to replace Cameron, David Davis represents "outstanding value" at 33/1, and Smithson has put some money down. Boris Johnson is top of the heap at 4/1, despite his not being an MP. Paul's own tip to replace Cameron would be William Hague, whose reputation and image as a statesman have steadily and markedly improved since he was last Tory leader – give or take a few embarrassing stories about his sleeping arrangements.
The website's respected guru Mike Smithson reports that Ladbrokes has tightened the price on Cameron's being the next cabinet member to quit the government from 100/1 ten days ago to 12/1 now. Stan James offers 7/1 against Cameron not lasting the year.
Of the frontrunners to replace Cameron, David Davis represents "outstanding value" at 33/1, and Smithson has put some money down. Boris Johnson is top of the heap at 4/1, despite his not being an MP. Paul's own tip to replace Cameron would be William Hague, whose reputation and image as a statesman have steadily and markedly improved since he was last Tory leader – give or take a few embarrassing stories about his sleeping arrangements.
Ugh, Boris.
― scraping wheatus off the wheel (NickB), Monday, 18 July 2011 15:28 (twelve years ago) link
Paul's own tip to replace Cameron would be William Hague, whose reputation and image as a statesman have steadily and markedly improved since he was last Tory leader
bleeeaarrghhhhh
― lex pretend, Monday, 18 July 2011 15:29 (twelve years ago) link
THOUGHT WE WERE RID OF HIM A DECADE AGO >:(
He's back and balder than ever.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 18 July 2011 15:31 (twelve years ago) link
does he still have his beard
― MY WEEDS STRONG BLUD.mp3 (nakhchivan), Monday, 18 July 2011 15:35 (twelve years ago) link
Inquiries inquiries inquiries:
• IPCC oversight of Operation Elveden:Operation Elveden, looking into corruption, is being supervised by the Independent Police Complaints Commission. As soon as individual suspected officers have been identified, IPCC investigators will lead an independent investigation of those officers. Both of these matters will then be considered by the Leveson Inquiry, already established by the Prime Minister.• Review of police-press relations: Elizabeth Filkin, the former Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, has "provisionally agreed to examine the ethical considerations that should, in future, underpin the relationships between the Metropolitan Police and the media, how to ensure maximum transparency and public confidence, and provide advice".The management board of the Met has "agreed a new set of guidelines relating to relationships with the media, including recording meetings and hospitality and publication on the internet".• Investigation into police corruption:Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) has been asked to consider "instances of undue influence, inappropriate contractual arrangements and other abuses of power in police relationships with the media and other parties".• Review of IPCC powers:IPCC chief executive, Jane Furniss, has told the Home Secretary she has the power she needs for now but the Home Secretary has "commissioned work to consider whether the IPCC needs further powers, including whether it should be given the power to question civilian witnesses during the course of their investigations".Ms May said: "Given that the IPCC can at present only investigate specific allegations against individual officers, I have also asked whether the Commission needs to have a greater role in investigating allegations about institutional failings of a force or forces."
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 18 July 2011 15:36 (twelve years ago) link
Oh and:
16.35 Breaking: David Cameron will now curtail his Africa trip - having already shortened it once and insisted earlier today he would not do so again.
At this rate he'll be refused reentry as an undesirable.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 18 July 2011 15:37 (twelve years ago) link
i so want one of the principles to try to flee the country while they can
― lex pretend, Monday, 18 July 2011 15:38 (twelve years ago) link
Re: Hague. Let's put the (purely platonic) bed sharing with attractive pouting young (male) political "advisers" to one side then, shall we?
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Monday, 18 July 2011 15:38 (twelve years ago) link
PRINCIPALS
godfkndamnit
The principles themselves having long since gone.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 18 July 2011 15:40 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.5chicago.com/theindex/jamie-principle/photo.jpg
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Monday, 18 July 2011 15:42 (twelve years ago) link
4.38pm: My colleague Vikram Dodd tells me that the home affairs committee has Lord Macdonald, director of public prosecutions at at the time of the first phone hacking prosecution in 2007, to appear before it tomorrow in a special session. Macdonald has been criticised because he has subsequently agreed to do some work for News International.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 18 July 2011 15:47 (twelve years ago) link
it is seriously difficult to keep all this shit straight
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Monday, 18 July 2011 15:50 (twelve years ago) link
Everyone is arresting everyone else before they resign during a committee appearance.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 18 July 2011 15:51 (twelve years ago) link
isn't it gonna be quicker to pull in everybody who hasn't been paid by News Corp?
― dave lool (Noodle Vague), Monday, 18 July 2011 15:51 (twelve years ago) link
The room would be empty.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 18 July 2011 15:56 (twelve years ago) link