April 26th, 2011

Marr Decries Injunction

This morning’s ding-ding on the Today program was miles apart from your usual stuffy debate. Ian Hislop tore a chunk from Andrew Marr over his 2008 love child super-injunction

“As a leading BBC interviewer who’s asking politicians about failures in judgment, failures in their private lives, inconsistencies, it was pretty rank of him to have an injunction when acting as an active journalist.”

Just to think, Marr could have spared all that time, money and not to forget damage done to his reputation, if he and Alice Miles’s child had just done the DNA test in the first place. Marr says that injunctions are out of control these days, yet it seems they were fine when he needed one.


139 Comments

  1. 1
    • 17
      anonymouse says:

      Just Google Andrew Marr love child. No wonder he has come out in the open.
      Can’t see who’s the daddy.

      • 39
        Anonymous says:

        I’m more concerned about the court order obtained by lawyers acting for Stephen Purcell which prevented the media from properly investigating what was behind his sudden meltdown.
        His position as head of one of the largest municipal authorities in the UK demanded that he be investigated.
        Why did no one challenge such an order , it is without question that this is in the public interest.
        The public have a right to know if there is corruption at the heart of the administration and equally they have a right to be reassured when there is not.
        At the moment we do not know and such a matter cannot be allowed to lie.

        • 93

          Maybe the two Eds can ask the Fifeshire financial dimwit when they are north of the border trying to save Scottish Labour’s bacon.

          Stephen Purcell groomed by Gay Gordon only to crash out big stylie and still the MSM are frightened to open that can of worms.

          The pork smells rotten in the Kingdom of Fife me thinks!

    • 27
      Living Next door to Alice says:

      The hypocrisy is that the super injunction is supposedly to protect the child even though we all know it was to protect Marr.

      But let us just pretend for a second that Marr was indeed acting to protect the child. Then why has Marr broken his own super injunction now that he knows he is not the father and as a result he has put the child in the public spotlight?

      And of course leaving an unanswered question. Who else was Alice shagging?

  2. 2
    Dark Lord says:

    Hypocracy indeed.

  3. 3
    Socialism has murdered 150 million human beings pride says:

    Look around the blogs–EU Referendum is a good place to start. This injunction-on-celebs crap is being used to cover the abusive use of injunctions to silence journalists and stop them reporting the atrocities being carried out in secret by so-called “family courts” whose main job is to destroy families on the orders of social workers.

    • 111
      Mike Hunt says:

      Sadly very true – these fascists are destroying families, decent families not the Baby Peter type, and preventing them even going to their MP.

  4. 4
    Plato says:

    Injections are out of control :D

    Typo of the Day

  5. 5
    Drop a Daisy cutter on the BBC says:

    It was also a total waste of fucking money as Guido had the story here back in 2008, every fucker knew that Marr was shagging on the side.

    What I want to know is will the BBC force the eh hum others at the BBC to do the same?

  6. 6
    Hugh Janus says:

    Marr’s injunction was a complete waste of time and money, however, as his ‘transgression’ was all over the interweb shortly after he obtained it.

    Marr is a waste of space anyway, and no confession now will change that.

    • 15
      Hugh Bonneville says:

      Is there anything about me on the interweb? I do hope not.

      By the way, I’m a famous actor, famous all around the world.

      No, honestly. I am.

  7. 7
    Sir William Waad says:

    The statement that AV would cost £250 million was a deliberate lie.

    • 75
      Moley says:

      But the statement that AV COULD cost £250 million isn’t.

      Change is never cheap, and costs are always underestimated.

  8. 8
    Anonymous says:

    Marr’s trying to change the subject. This piece is about injunctions not shooting stuff.

  9. 9
    Lord GNOME says:

    (Did I hear correctly in that the party of the third party is in fact the result of the party with a fourth party?)

    Nice weather we are having isn’t it?

  10. 10
    Anonymous says:

    “Marr says the injections are out of control these days”
    I’m surprised Marr doesn’t have an injuction out to stop you outing his drug dependency!

  11. 11
    Steve Miliband says:

    Marr must be over paid, as these injunctions don’t come cheap.

  12. 12
    Anonymous says:

    Too late. Sorry

  13. 13
    sympl Countri bouy says:

    Injuctions, injections, injunctions?

    Conflusables yu whil bee.

  14. 14
    Mrs J Ashley says:

    Marr is the most odious sort of self-righteous twat. How he can be taken seriously as a journo is beyond me.

    No doubt these legal forays were stumped up by the license fee payers to boot.

    • 20
      11 years and counting says:

      Simple solution – don’t pay the license fee.

    • 21
      Drop a Daisy cutter on the BBC says:

      Well yes as we pay his £500K a year salary.

      • 48
        up the junction says:

        Only £500,000? That’s on the frugal side for a leftie media luvvie who as a socialist wants equality for all. I’m sure there’s enough to go round, deficit or no deficit, just have to go on a few property damaging riots, job done.

        • 84
          Dick the Prick says:

          That’s just salary for the occassional Sunday socialist cock fest and saying ‘hmm’ about a 100 times on Start the Week on a Monday morning; he gets extra for the revisionist history ‘documentaries’ and royalties from the books that sad sacks purchase.

        • 95
          Polly says:

          and another one of of Marr’s sayings

          “And the answer, frankly, is the vigorous use of state power to coerce and repress…I firmly believe that repression can be a great, civilising instrument for good. Stamp hard on certain natural beliefs for long enough and you can almost kill them off. ”

          Straight out of the Assad stable

          repulsive , sanctimonious , devious scotchman

  15. 16
    Anonymous says:

    Did Marr take out an injunction so you couldn’t talk about his injections? I see you’ve changed it!

  16. 19
    Drop a Daisy cutter on the BBC says:

    Funny that even the BBC are running Marr’s shagging as top story. This is very unusual for the BBC, what could they be hiding?

    Oh hang on, we’ve now got proof that Alky Ada were ringing up the BBC presumably to get tip off’s about the movement of British forces so they could get them killed? This of course wouldn’t be the first time the BBC has tried to murder British soldiers.

    “…The BBC announced the attack on Goose Green during the Falklands war BEFORE the war battle started.
    While preparing for their assault on the afternoon of May 27, the Paratroops heard on the BBC World Service that they had just completed the move they were then preparing to make. Their feeling that they had been badly let down by the media was not helped by the sight of Argentine helicopter activity around the garrison they were about to attack….”
    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/article537942.ece

    • 23
      11 years and counting says:

      The BBC is hideously muzzie.

      The consequences of this were inevitable.

    • 50
      TV licence? No thanks. says:

      Bet the BBC will do a complete U turn on Wikileaks now.

      Some BBC spokesliar will start claiming Wikileaks is a threat to freedom and should be closed down.

    • 73
      MI7 says:

      Don’t foget the BBC reporting a certain tower 7 had collapsed 20 min before it actualy did back in 2001. And this was before anyone had any idea that tower 7 was going to collapse. Still to this day they’ve never revealed who sent out the press release that the tower had collapsed when in fact it was still standing.

  17. 22
    Sir William Waad says:

    I’m still trying to come to terms with the fact that somebody would cheerfully have sex with Andrew Marr.

    • 26
      How in God's name says:

      I’m still trying to come to terms with Lard Prescott’s affair.

      • 37
        sockpuppet #4 says:

        I still titter a little about edwina and John.

        No need for an injunction when no-one would ever have guessed or suspected it.

        • 72
          Milli- injunction says:

          Talking of paternity , has Milliwit put his name on the birth certificate yet? If not, why not?

          • Ed not thinging straight says:

            “Bastard” – a child whose parents are unmarried at time of birth.

            So adding name later or marying later leaves child open to this abuse and the label that will stick forever.

            Seems Red Ed did not think ahead…. ho hum.

          • Sssshhhhh..... says:

            Hmm, so both my sons are bastards!? Proposed to their mother when in the maternity ward after the 2nd was born. To please my partner and the family you see. Since had a daughter within marriage…….at least she’s not a bastard.

    • 34
      A Pensioner says:

      Who says it was cheerful. And the DNA was not his, so who was Alice shagging at the time?

  18. 25
    Polly says:

    no – injuctions

    I know it ‘cos Guido says it

  19. 28
    off with his ears says:

    Marr should be sacked.

  20. 29
    Moley says:

    Why are Judges so keen to protect the rich and famous from the consequences of their misbehaviour?

    The Ladies of the night, particularly those with a penchant for kinky rubberware, will tell you that the Judiciary are their best customers.

    They are discreet, pay well, and can ensure that the Police are always looking the other way.

    • 56
      Moley says:

      If I was a Judge, and I had a dark and guilty secret, and I was asked to grant an injunction to protect someone else’s guilty secret, there would be a little voice in my head asking these questions;

      Have they come to me because they know?

      If they do know, and I refuse their request; what will happen? Will my secret become public knowledge?

      Secrecy encourages blackmail, whether explicit or implicit.

    • 118
      FGAU says:

      Judges have very little real power. Everything they do is circumscribed by written statute and case law precedence. Article VIII of ECHR and Labour’s HRA tie the hands of judges – if they don’t grant injunctions, they are effectivly in breach of ECHR’s guarantee of the right to privacy and family life.

      Politicians will squeal about the Eeeevil Judges subverting Parliament’s privileges but that’s bullshit pure and simple. Politicians wrote sloppy laws that gave ECHR power in British law but refused to define how that power should be implemented. That was to be left to the courts. The courts, acting in accordance with the laws passed by Parliament, apply the most logical reading of ECHR Art. 8. This leads to superinjunctions.

      The root problem in this situation is not the judges but the European Convention on Human Rights, the Human Rights Act and incompetent cowardly politicians who have neither the brains nor the testicular fortitude to deal with the situation.

  21. 30
    Ed Balls, financial genius says:

    That ‘journalist’ slut wot shagged Marr should have taken out an injuntion to prevent anyone knowing she is so depraved as to want sex with a self important, self regarding, jug eared, ugly Scotch cu’nt

  22. 31
    Marr the socialist says:

    So it’s official then. Marr only shags socialist women.

    • 81
      Drop a Daisy cutter on the BBC says:

      And like the rest of the BBC they only suck the cocks of Socialists as well

    • 128
      Richard Timney says:

      Idiot. They are really boring. At least that is may experience.

  23. 33
    nell says:

    ++++Laugh++++

    andrewmarr and hypocrisy = 2 sides of the same coin.

    The injunction was fine until a newspaper told him that they were going to publish and be damned.

    Then he decided his reputation would be better served by pretending to have higher thoughts about injunctions, declaring he should never have done it and was now opposed to such things.

    How very beeb/labour! Not very good at honesty are they?

  24. 35
    Greychatter says:

    Keep on being in front of the game Guido!!
    A week is a long time in politics, you seem to be a couple of years in front.

    The BBBC will eventually catch up, maybe when Chris Patten starts his new job things will change.

    But we shouldn’t hold our breath.

    • 52
      Highland Cathedral says:

      Chris Patten could oversee the handover of The BBC to the chinese.

      • 123
        Parrot keeper says:

        or the EUSSR since he is still on their pensioners’ payroll and pledged to upkeep the tyranny.

  25. 38
    Noddy & Big Ears says:

    Why did they need to do a DNA test. Surely the ears would have given the game away.

  26. 40
    Cato Street Conspirator says:

    Hislop also made the point that Marr wasn’t interested in his family’s privacy or the privacy of the child but in protecting his own career. But then Marr always was an obnoxious little shit.

  27. 41
    Steve Miliband says:

    Still, bet he’ll be going to Glastonbury, poncing about as though he’s a socialist student.

  28. 42
    Anonymous says:

    Hmm. Got a book coming out has he?

  29. 45
    Kerry the thick Labour MP says:
    • 55
      up the junction says:

      Yeah, rich people are deliberately shooting pheasants to land precisely on the motorway just to show how fucking rich they are. Jaw droppingly thick alright.

    • 57
      Righty Right Wing (Mrs) says:

      And this woman is allowed out by herself in a car?

    • 60
      Steve Miliband says:

      Ignorant peasant.
      Shooting season ends 31 Jan.

    • 67
      Pheasant Beater says:

      I think it should be made illegal for such stupid people to be law makers.

      • 74
        Three Lords a Leaping says:

        To be fair thanks to the check and balance of the second chamber, most Laws are only approved by the House of Lords on receipt of the brown envelope.

      • 114
        Cordon sanitaire says:

        Then vote YES to AV and stop them being elected on 30% or less of the total vote!

    • 71
      Mornington Crescent says:

      They probably drop dead when you drive by, love.

    • 119
      pedestrian says:

      They all starved to death on the central reservation because they never got a gap in the traffic to get across the road.

  30. 46
    Getting out of hand says:

    What about the prominent Yes2AV campaigner who’s taken out an injunction preventing disclosure of his sex life?

  31. 46
    NeverRed says:

    Can’t wait to see dear Jackie doing a piece in the Guardian about super injunctions and presenters.

  32. 63
    Stuck-Record says:

    I think we all know that Marr would be toast this morning if he was a right-wing pundit for the BBC.

    Oh yeah. That’s right. I forgot. There aren’t any right-wing BBC pundits.

  33. 64
    Polly says:

    Of course, nice benign Mr Marr has warm feelings for internet wallahs , thus:

    “Most citizen journalism strikes me as nothing to do with journalism at all. A lot of bloggers seem to be socially inadequate, pimpled, single, slightly seedy, bald, cauliflower-nosed, young men sitting in their mother’s basements and ranting. They are very angry people. OK – the country is full of very angry people. Many of us are angry people at times. Some of us are angry and drunk. But the so-called citizen journalism is the spewings and rantings of very drunk people late at night.”

    - Andrew Marr, BBC Broadcaster (at the Cheltenham Literary Festival).

    • 130
      Commander Taco says:

      Do bloggers this side of the Atlantic inhabit basements?
      In the US and Canada they have to have basements due to cold and it makes an excellent place toblog from.

  34. 65
    Preacher Man says:

    Ahh the Left, do as we say not as we do, which in all likelihood is much more muckier than what you are doing. How the holier than thou have fallen.

    Dear God, if somehow you read this, please scrap the entire left-wing biased BBC since our coalition government seem so hopeless at doing that even though the Beeb is packed with these deficit denying Tory-hating corrupt zealous left-wing randy politically correct socialist communist mother superiors and to add insult to injury the public are paying to let them get away with being like that and funding their expensive court cases and providing a limitless gravy train at our expense through the no longer necessary non-essential and non-wanted license fee. Swines. Amen.

  35. 66
    Steve Miliband says:

    People say you can find out about the subjects of the injunctions by looking on the interweb, but I must be googling the wrong words as it never seems to work.

  36. 68
    Loungelizard says:

    I would have thought that a glance in the mirror would have been the ultimate contraceptive as far as Marr was concerned. If he needed to use an injunction to protect himself tomorrow he wouldn’t hesitate for a second.

    • 77
      Voice of Treason says:

      He used the injunction to protect his child which can now be seen at London Zoo under the name of Dumbo.

  37. 70
    Randy Andy says:

    Like my colleague, Steven Fry, I’m a little national treasure, and worth every bit of my £600,000 per year salary.

  38. 78
    annette curton says:

    The sudden conversion on the road to Damascus is clearly because it has dawned (who’s shagging Dawn now?) at the 11th hour that super-injunctions just draw more attention to ones misdemeanour’s and its impossible to stop innuendo and implication nailing the Prime suspect (it didn’t work for Fred Godwin either) despite what the QC told Marr before relieving him of several £100,000. The fact that Marr is supposed to be an investigative journalist (Ha) just makes the hypocrisy all the sweeter.

    • 98
      Drop a Daisy cutter on the BBC says:

      The only thing Marr investigates is the arse crack of Liebore politicians with the tip of his tongue. I’ve yet to hear him actually work over a Liebore politician.

      Ed Balls must think a Sunday working with Marr is better than the sex he gets off his boy wife. Marr even swallows.

  39. 79
    Voice of Treason says:

    Marr is a prime example of why evolution hasn’t always happened as stated by Darwin.

    • 103
      P. Doff says:

      As a typical example you mean… Texans are living proof that Indians fucked buffaloes!

    • 131
      Commander Taco says:

      Incorrext. Jackie Ashley and this other bird saw something genetically valuable in having jug ears and went for them. Only problem for RAndy Mar is that the other bird saw a genetic advantage elsewhere and went with that fellow as well.
      Eastenders writers would give eye teeth to be able to use this story in their overrated crapola

  40. 82
    Layabout says:

    Hilarious – the Gdn has a story about Marr on its website that doesn’t even mention he’s married to its political corr. It’s obviously been written by some lowly hack who has to come in and has to update the website first thing before the ‘suits’ have arrived at a decision. No doubt he doesn’t fancy a roasting from the dreaded Jackie.

  41. 83

    Who’ll come out of the closet next? I mean – to pull two pluck two random names from thin air – I wonder if Jeremy Clarkson or Ryan Giggs have been sleeping easy at night.

  42. 85
    Drop a Daisy cutter on the BBC says:

    So does anyone have the FULL telephone number of the BBC that was found on several Alky Ada mobiles?

    I was going to make some cards to put in phone boxes you know offering blow jobs or terrorism tips and selling drugs.

  43. 87
    Mornington Crescent says:

    Trying to protect the mother and daughter, my arse.

    Mother and daughter aren’t averse to publicity, particularly when it pays:
    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/travel/holiday_type/spas_and_lifestyle/article3204630.ece

  44. 88
    Jug Ears says:

    “A lot of people in this country use prescription painkillers and pills to help them get through; are you one of those people?”

  45. 90
    Anonymous says:

    Mandy is sticking his oar in again re AV. Who will rid us of this dreadful old queen?

    http://www.talktalk.co.uk/news/article/labour-voters-may-hold-av-poll-key/5153/

  46. 96
    Drop a Daisy cutter on the BBC says:

    Radio 5 were slagging off those nasty rich men all last week and how they use the law to protect their extra marital shagging. Me thinks that Radio 5 in particular will now go silent.

    Victoria Derbyshire in particular should keep her gob shut.

    “…They bought a house together in north London, and when the Travel Show was axed, she returned to radio. From hosting the afternoon show on Five Live she moved to the late-night slot. But this bliss was not to last. In a love triangle tale that grabbed tabloid headlines, Sandell left her for fellow Five Live host Victoria Derbyshire…”

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/fi-glover-home-to-roost-410649.html

  47. 97
    DNA or not DNA? says:

    Are his Ears genetic or did his mother carry him around by them when he was a baby?

    • 104
      annette curton says:

      Clearly the runt of the litter, some people may choose to change the first letter of the third word to the third letter of the alphabet, phew!, does that make me safe from litigation?.

    • 126
      Anonymous says:

      Surely Gabby Logan’s ears are also burning at the moment >/

    • 137
      Jenny Bond's Absent Gusset says:

      Marr’s mater and pater were early pioneers (no pun intended) of green ideals! Young Jugs’s jugears are perfect aerofoils for carbon-neutral electric generation. Jugs was well known for Ohms Law: V=IagRa!

  48. 99
    Voice of Treason says:

    Why don’t the newspapers publish the failings of so-called celebs before they have the chance to get a super injunction?

    • 102
      Drop a Daisy cutter on the BBC says:

      How come judges seem to be available 24/7 for these injunctions, yet out criminal courts only seem to work for 4 hours a day?

  49. 100
    confused says:

    These super injunctions will never disappear because those who could change the law won’t because in the backs of their minds they suspect that some day they might be in need of one themselves

  50. 101
    Drop a Daisy cutter on the BBC says:

    Just caught a bit of Hislop tearing Marr a new one. Brilliant, I wonder if the lefty wankers at the BBC (Marcus Brigstoke et al) will be taking the piss out of Marr? I guess not.

    “Tory cuts!”

    • 121
      Sssshhhhh..... says:

      Brigstocke is becoming more smug, self-righteous and generally annoying. He should concentrate on being funnier.

      This world needs more Ian Hislops.

  51. 106
    Anonymous says:

    Andrew Marr at Glastonbury Colouring Book- a BBC publication.
    http://www.coloring-book.info/coloring/coloring.php?id=1454

  52. 108
    It doesn't add up... says:

    It was Mrs. Grose of him to assume that the Turn of the Screw wouldn’t affect Miles – surely the Peter Quint-essential mind Jessel Flora injunction. And the joke? It turned into a ghost-written story. To think the man interviews key Brittens. Benjamin? Marrley and the wailers.

  53. 113
    Cheers big ears! says:

    Hi, my name is Andrew Marr and I am a sanctimonious shit.

    • 120
      Deep Froat says:

      Your name is Andrew Marr and your a Thrush….which as any female will tell you is a irritating c**t.

  54. 115
    Cowboy Neal says:

    Jugs and Arse are more interesting

  55. 116
    I don't need no doctor says:

    BBC. The hypocritical left wing tv broadcaster.

  56. 125
    Kered Ybretsae says:

    Will it soon be WikiInjunction or WikiJunction??? Now Andrew Marr can shag as many women he wants too, he is still a good Journo! But his actions for injunctions are a little hypocritical. One Law for the rich and one for us lot,,,,,,moment… there are more of us than them!!!

  57. 129
    Mercian says:

    I suppose the woman must have put a bag on his head.

  58. 134
    Old Langsyne says:

    Never trust a Scotsman without a Scottish accent. You never know where they’ve been.

  59. 138
    HO Lim-peng says:

    Strange that there has been no criticism of the “other woman’s” conduct. Was she so reckless, irresponsible, and dangerous, in her personal behaviour that she really did not know who the father was? Or has she obtained money by deception from Marr? Not a word on any of this have I seen, all the criticism has been of the pathetically duped male, Marr. Equality has a long, long, way to go yet.



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