Cut and Paste Hari
Bleeding-heart socialist Johann Hari has been caught red-handed as a bleedin’ cheat. He has been called out for stealing quotes from a book and pretending he had been told them face to face, adding descriptions of the scene like “with a shake of the head” and “then he says, in a quieter voice”. Brian Whelan the UK Editor of Yahoo! has demolished Hari:
“The quote is sewn together with a string of other ideas Levy may or may not have shared with Hari but at no point does Hari indicate the quotes are taken from elsewhere… While Hari has questions to answer over the quotes he claims were given directly to him he also seems to be freely creating mash-up quotes out of disparate statements levy has made over the years. Not the practice of an award winning hack… If the Indy really did send him to Scotland for these quotes I think Hari’s editor needs to sit him down for a chat.”
Hari has responded saying that he was merely accurately quoting the works of the writer he has interviewing, but his argument falls apart when you look at the other sources of some of the quotes – interviews with other hacks, that are not referenced or acknowledged. Sod the Orwell Prize, Hari can add The Stephen Glass Award 2011 to his already cluttered mantelpiece.
UPDATE: Guido sat down for a quiet chat with Johann this morning. He said pensively “I have become the Nadine Dorries of the commentariat, though it is 70% made-up with me.”
UPDATE II: This from August 2010 is worth re-reading: Johann Hari is a liar
Shocking!!!!!
the irony of Hari quoting 1984 doublespeak is not lost on me, he tells me in an exclusive interview with me with me that I missed.
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-lies-damned-lies-and-the-doublespeak-i-would-expunge-1780241.html
Guido, don’t care there are many more interesting things to be writing about.
Start with Willetts’ failure to stand up for Britain and give all best university places to British students. Stop free university education to EU students- it really is taking the piss when tuition fees for English students have gone through the roof.
CaMoron still bleating about Turkey’s membership of the EU- he has gone mad or badly influenced by the US.
Immigration- out of control and continuing at an alarming rate. 572,000 immigrants last year, 160,000 asylum seekers and 241,000 overseas students (some of whom do not pay and bring their families here).
Defence cracking under the strain of cut backs while Wet Dave commits the UK ot another Middle East war that is none of our business. We still give billions (11.5) in overseas aid to Pakistan and India who have massive defence forces, space and nuclear programmes. We also give billions (12.5) to bail out EU countries when CaMoron stated we would not. Then CaMoron wants to make ordinary people work longer and suffer hardships while he embarks on his multi billion pound give away scheme. Banks continue to pay millions in salaries to people who created this mess in cohort with politicians. RBS has 341 millionaires working for it and Hester states to the select committee that some of the taxpayers money funded the bonuses!!! Hello
CaMoron, you do not need a PPE from Oxford to work out that you can not spend more than you earn. Start with cut backs before taxing us further and throwing money away.
This is a tittle-tattle post. See the bit at the top? There are some words next to the fella in the funky hat.
Fuck’s sake.
The Prince of Wales’s funding from the taxpayer increased by nearly 18 per cent last year, official accounts showed today.
Charles’s income from grants-in-aid and Government departments rose 17.9 per cent from £1,664,000 to £1,962,000.
He also saw his private funding from the Duchy of Cornwall – the landed estate given to the heir to the throne – go up by nearly 4 per cent to £17,796,000.
Read down the thread, Nice to see the trolls being consistant tho.
Boring post about a twat who I’ve never heard of!!
Do you even know who he is?
The only way I could tell you who Johann Hari is would be to cut and paste it.
Gordon Brown told us repeatedly that he had abolished boom and bust. 70% was made up – the rest was lies.
And David Cameron and George Osborne repeatedly tell us that the deficit is Labour’s fault and they are cleaning up Labour’s mess.
But as the Conservative party voted for the invasion of Iraq, the occupation of Afghanistan and the bank bailout, all of which helped create the deficit, then they are lying as well.
The Conservatives are clearing up a mess of their own making, and should be man enough to admit that truth instead of lying to the public.
Which begs the question: if they are lying about their joint culpability with Labour for the deficit, then what else are they lying about?
It app_ears, sir, that you need a basic primer in politics, particularly with regard to government and opposition. Do come back, when you have conducted that minimum of study, and try again.
I look forward to reading his interview with Elvis, God and Herbert Hoover.
Hari is a climate change extremist, his dogmatic mind set is similar to fundamentalist religious nutters.
I’d never heard of him/her before, but he/she looks like a gay/lez and has that smug look of self-satisfaction that comes from getting paid loads to spout bollox.
Sir Michael, Jasmin Ali-Bongo and Polly also fit into this category.
A very hard punch in face, administered daily, usually sorts it.
Ahhh, I knew it.
He’s a fully paid up member of the Fudge Packers, Brown Hatters and Wheel-Tappers Union.
The self satisfaction smugness and self rightousness is all part of the make up of fundamentalist believers who see themselves as the elect and oh so right.
In the latest edition of my village magazine I have exclusive interviews with Howard Hughes, Greta Garbo and Jesus.
Do have a look at #interviewsByHari on Twitter.
errrr. no.
Exactly. No.
Cock.
Bull (one ampersand required.)
Bar
Staff
Room
Service
Station
Master.
Baiter
Bates
Mornington Crescent
stard
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2 G&Ts please Lord Prescott.
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bourliness
“accurately quoting the works of the writer he has interviewing,”
Think there needs to be a “Has ” in there.
On topic.
Thats the problem with socailists, they always take what is not thiers.
I mean there should be a “Been” in there.
“has been”?
Oh dear billy, you can’t even attempt a correction without fucking it up.
bless.
Are you the product of our socialist education system?
Schools must not produce winners.
They certainly didn’t with you.
No he’s the product of a window licker and a mong.
Been and soon gone – if the Independent was half so righteous – never mind independent – as it pretends.
Except he’s not ‘taking’ what’s not his. He’s attributing a quote to someone – partly based on what they’ve previously said/written.
Hi, is it ok to call you “Dick” for short ?
AHHHH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA!
“Blessed are the cracked, for they let in the light.”
Socialist in stealing pikey shocker!
Too fucking thick to do his own legwork. Tosser.
“Too fucking thick to do his own legwork. Tosser.”
To be fair, that describes every journalist at The Daily Telegraph
Isn’t Hari a useless Independent tosser?
Quite possibly.
I was just commenting on my pet hate, the once-great but now execrable Telegraph.
nothing wrong with the telegraph – they employ plenty of posh totty, who write about getting shagged (or not).
it would benefit from more up skirt shots though
Right wing political blogger,Guido Fawkes said his Nevis registered companies would help Greece by giving it 30 years to repay loans as Greek ministers debated a new raft of austerity measures required to release more life-saving funds from the Eurozone
What on Earth are you wittering on about you useless barrel of dried monkeyspunk.
Stop that thoroughly modern thinking, Min.
Kind of serves Greece right for going nuts on the credit card, doesn’t it?
Oh, dear! Stavros the Greek public sector worker can’t retire at 50?
Shame.
Or would you prefer the British worker to bail Stavros out? You know, pay Stavros’s pension for him because Stavros couldn’t be bothered funding it for himself?
‘Or would you prefer the British worker to bail Stavros out?’
We are, David of Cameron sent the IMF our portion of the bail-out, so he could say he is not part of the EU bail-out / theft.
No surprise really. Hari’s journalism has always struggled to rise above the expected standard of a student newspaper and he doesn’t strike me as a particularly sophisticated or original thinker.
This is the third occasion in under a year where Master Hari has been caught out having trouble with his sources–two of them were exposed in the Spectator coffee house section, one of them involving his hectoring appearance on the now thankfully dead Channel 4 Thursady Night Live ( it featured a debate on charitable donations in different American states, possibly being discouraged by federal spending cuts) , and the other, exposed by Fraser Nelson, involved misreading of official spending statistics–possibly wilfull. He certainly appears to be a scribbler prepared to tamper with the facts in order to support his case. And of course he looks like an over feed teenage dyke.
Modded again…but at least Mr. Hari is not a M*sl*m !!i
Tis that little green vegtable again.
If I force my two children to eat 5 portions of peas a day, will their suffering, the tearful eyes, the sitting at the table for hours until the plate is empty finally overturn this unjustified ban on the mention of the little green vegetable?
No , its rather that I rendered fed as feed.
Yawn – your attempts to discredit Hari on this matter only serve to make you look petty and pathetic.
No need for anyone to discredit the twat, he’s done that all by himself.
Don’t forget that Hari once threatened to sue the blog Harry’s Place after it published a post detailing his penchant for making things up
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2007/oct/11/bloggersturnbritainslibell
The post here (before it was taken down)
http://bp1.blogger.com/_MUXJsZn4hVY/Rq8qeLC4R8I/AAAAAAAAAHc/2OBvYLhHTqg/s1600-h/hp.jpg
Nice to see the young fool get his comeuppance at last.
Guido Fawkes,Right Wing Political Bloggers Fraud Team Manager, said “We’re always pleased when another “cut and paste” cheat is caught – after all it’s your comments they are stealing.
“I’m always surprised that each and every year we still find people”cutting and pasting” and defrauding honest posters.
Don’t mention my dossier, please.
What about your dossier.
I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it.
I’ll have you one day, tosser
Aeiough! Bleiough! Arangahahhh! Kitna Budgy Ha!! Aeiough! and other naughty noises.
….. and tories never lie FFS
Tories lie and cheat and eat babies.
They’d eat their own babies if they could make any money out of it.
They’d eat their own babies if they could make any
Liebour cronies lie, cheat and spread unfounded rumours in order to smear opponents.
It’s not just Tories, it’s all politicians, with the occasional honourable exception. That’s why blogs like this exist, and one reason why political party memberships are falling. The public don’t trust politicians. Trouble is, we’re stuck with the baskets because we haven’t worked out a better way of managing our collective affairs – yet.
Meanwhile in the real World……..”Aljabeeba” is going into ecstacies on the Athens Riots as an excited John Sopel just manages to dodge a bottle or two……should have settled up last night’s Taverna Bill, John..you know what those Greeks are like with throwing plates around
There’s always another way…get rid of the lot of them!
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvl1m_9trq0?rel=0&w=425&h=349
so he didn’t ‘misquote’ anyone. .. he didn’t attribute people with quotes they have never uttered..
He’s not a Tory then
“so he didn’t ‘misquote’ anyone” he paused before continuing his wisdom. “he didn’t attribute people with quotes they have never uttered..”
Then snorting with the satisfaction of his own brilliance, a skill with words he had perfected in collage canteens between pointless lectures, he finished vomiting his wisdom on a high “He’s not a Tory then” Then he farted and followed through. I know. I was there.
“collage canteens” – hmm must have gone to art school
“collage canteens” Hmmmmmm so he must have gone to art school then?
One expects little more from a squirt like Hari. However, it makes a change from the usual journalistic interview, where you get 2,000 words of the journo’s pixillated prose about what the other person was wearing, somebody else famous who lived nearby, the clock ticking on the dresser and similar tosh; and about half-a-dozen words of the interviewee.
“I’m a talentless leftie who has been stealing a living for years” – Hari said in a quote I’ve just made up.
Dunno , I dont have twitter, can you just cut and paste the words?
We could turn you upside down and use you as a holder for it.
But wouldnt the torch vanish down her well used holder?
Depends how much womb there is.
turn her upside down and use it as a money box….said Fred,sitting on theother side of the bar
Careful, Lucy. It’ll turn up in a back-street scrapyard with the flame missing. “It was in me uncle’s shed we’re clearing ‘cos ‘ees died, Wack. Honest.”
Stavros from the kebab shop on the high street.
That Stavros…some guy hunh!
Some benefits scrounger, living the unfunded Liverpool dream, in testament to the amount of money New Labour have wasted on us hosting the Games?
If they can be arsed, that is. If not, it’s not their fault, but the unrealistic expectations of society on the workshy.
chucky
She’s only asking because she doesn’t know anyone in Wavertree, Liverpool
“Journalist plays fast-and-loose with truth” – shock, horror. I thought most of them did that.
Reading the offerings of many journalists over an extended period of time gives most people a feeling for whether or not they are writing with integrity. Those that can be said to do so consistently are sadly few in number; regrettably, the same applies to broadcasting.
Don’t really know why I bothered to write this – you all knew it anyway.
You cannot possibly be talking about the Bolshevik Biased Corporation can you?
Did Mr Hari steal your exclusive on Alan Johnson cheating on his wife?
Or the revelation that theTories biggest donor wasn’t actually a banker (apparently owning a bank doesn’t qualify you as a banker, a fact I’m sure that would be lost on an amateur such as Mr Hari).
That would be just the kind of thing that would enable you to take the moral highground on journalistic ethics………
Buy a T-shirt.
http://www.cafepress.com/guidofawkes
Any colour you like. As long as they are black.
Black shirts you say?
why am i not surprised………
The Black Shirts were socialist, jus like you. Funny that.
do fuck off, there’s a good chap
the group think knee jerk bullshit you’re displaying is beyond feeble minded
finding fault with anything posted on this blog = me being a socialist.
twat.
you should try taking gweedo’s. cock out of your mouth for a minute (and not just to drink some more koolaid.)
Are you American, Non believer? (Its unbeliever, surely?)
With such a grammatically poor effort, mixed with your usual jumbled-logic ravings, I am beginning to think you may well be.. If not, I suggest you attempt improving writing skills and stop ‘cutting and pasting’ other peoples comments from the Internet or channel 5-USA. (Demonstrated by blatant use of a soft drink popular only in the US).
Or, as you appear to be a complete tw&t, and plagiarist, you could apply for the soon to be vacant position Johann Hari may soon leave free.
Immigrants?
Sham 69: Hurry up, Hari!
Hurry up and resign.
We’re all going dahn the pub…
Are we really all in it together ?
The Prince of Wales’ taxpayer funding increased by nearly 18% last year, his official accounts show.
The income from grants-in-aid and government departments rose 17.9% from £1.66m to £1.96m
It really is appalling
Sales of his organic Turnip jam are down though, can’t think why.
Sales of his organic Turnip jam are down though, can’t think why.
is there an echo ?
Spooky.
He also paid £4m tax. He went on overseas visits where the hosts didn’t cough up, as they do if part of commonwealth.
Been listening to the BBC too much
Sorry, the tree hugging, tomato talking, hypocrite leaves me cold.
When he is not constantly jetting around the world blabbering nonsense about CO2, he casually slips out asides that the peasantry should get used to being poorer, because that’s the only way we can ‘save’ Gaia.
The day he sits on the throne, is the day I become a Republican.
Good.
It’s high time he gets taken down a peg or two.
He is the sort of pretty boy sissy who gives the Left a bad name. Hang him.
What do you mean ‘gives’? The left has never had a good name.
It’d be interesting to see how Hari goes about a personal apology. Weeping copiously over our collective sins is his entire shtick. I imagine he’ll argue that the IMF were responsible.
Incidentally, Guardian/Independent articles are acompanied by pics of the authors. Has anyone noticed they invariably look like utter wankers?
To be fair they have to be representitive of their readers.
He’s not a journalist, he’s a polemicist. All well and good but he shouldn’t pretend to be a journalist or that his work is anything other than left wing opinion.
When he attempts to do “journalism” he comes a cropper because he’s not a journalist. He was accused by Private Eye in 2003 of making up quotes from Iraqis happy they were about to be bombed for an article he was writing defending the war. It doesn’t surprise me.
I’ve read other articles of his with extremely dubious quotes from teary-eyed third worlders, saying risible things like “Why won’t the west stop causing global warming so I don’t have to starve?” I recall thinking, are those the words of an African farmer or a bleeding heart western journalist.
The question now is will the Independent give him the boot or do they think this is acceptable journalism?
Tsk, tsk, the left being shifty and economical, dear me.
If Mr Hari had been of the other political persuasion then the 5H1T would really have hit the fan, and the howls of indignation would have reverberated from Islington to Hampstead, with front page leaders in the Grauniad, sic.
He has no shame, but this a common trait of the left, so smug, so sanctimonious, so ……………
It’s not only plagiarism, but also a false account of the actual interview that he’d had with him.
His defence seems to be (paraphrased here) :
“he didn’t say what I’d reported he’d said, but I’m sure he was thinking it because he’d said it before once to someone else.”
Well, that’s not really writing-up a real interview, that’s more like a fictional account of what he thinks was in Levy’s head at the time, which is obviously not the right way to do it.
His defence is utter bollocks, and also only mentions that he borrowed words that Levy himself published/wrote, which is not true as he also stole the written words of other journalists who’d previously written articles about Levy.
Sadly, his way of working seems to be very common in the journalism world.
The BBC is probably the worst when it comes to stuff like this, because virtually all their news is simply lifted from the Guardian or other left wing papers/outlets. As Peter Scissons once said, he was basically given a copy of the Guardian every morning by the BBC news producers and told to read it and to take the same pro-labour lines that were in the paper when it came to reporting it and having interviews with the relevant people. He was never allowed to put forward the counter-arguments that most reasonable people would try to make, Guardian stories were simply reported as pure balanced fact, instead of the half-truth pro-labour propaganda that it actually was.
The BBC only ever say “sources say that…” they hardly ever quote those sources, I guess it’s because if they were saying “The Guardian says/thinks that…” every 5 minutes then they’d get into trouble with the government.
Remove the probably, the bbc are quite simply manipulative left wing c unts. Every R4 interview you ever hear, is stage managed to ensure the beeboid left of centre , public sector favouring , group view , prevails.
This is done by presenting some far left viewpoint as the norm, and ruthlessly interupting anyone who speaks against the set bbc agenda.
It’s not widely known that Johann Hari is Jeffrey Archer’s lovechild by Monica Coghlan. As Jeffrey remarked to me, “Winning the Nobel Prize for Literature was nice, but knowing that I have a son like Johann is the ultimate satisfaction for any writer of fiction.” Unfortunately I couldn’t get the full story because Stephen Hawking, King Fahd and the Dalai Lama called me away to adjuciate on a question of semiology, but I think we can trust Lord Archer on this one.
It doesn’t make sense. Those interviews never really read like a real conversation in my opinion and I wouldn’t be surprised if the practice was more widespread but why fake it? Why have none of the subjects complained?
They need the exposure?
Its a mystery why anyone would want to employ Johann Hari. He must make a habit of having sex with commissioning editors.
did Guru Murphy do this?
I’m not cross. I’m disappointed with this young Chi..er..journalist.
If nothing else, he should be fired for naively thinking nobody would notice nor take exception when they did notice.
He’s one of the reasons I gave up reading the Indy after nearly 20 years. He’d send my blood pressure through the roof with the garbage he wrote.
OHHHHH Guido, this is intesting
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2008875/Press-Associations-royal-reporter-Laura-Elston-arrested-hacking-inquiry-takes-new-twist.html
So not only News internatoinl, now the press assoc, Mirror Group next?
oh you are funny Billy. Guido dosent thread about p*hone H*acking. Can only wonder why !!!!!!. PS soooooo looking forward to Co*uslons Trial early next year.
Funny how not a single Tory MP has been embroiled in the scandal. Funny that !!!!!
The Mirror group were the biggest offenders, I hope you will condem them as well.
Oh Billy Billy Billy. I think you will find, that is News Corp whom are the biggest offenders…You clearly dont keep up to date with current affairs.
PS Billy shouldnt you be planning your Big Society Lesson Plans for Thursday. Chop chop
Oh Moussa Moussa Moussa.
How’s that whole ‘being in opposition’ thing going?
Oh and if you have a quick search in Guidos search engine (Just above Guidogram subscription) there are plenty of posts on the Hacking story, But dont let facts get in the way of Bullshit.
Dumb celebrities/politicians that were too thick to change their PIN number, whinging that a newspaper found out that their partner would be late home, or ‘could they get some milk’ should be fined for being stupid.
Oh Sybil….Shouldnt you be planning your lessons for Thursday. Dave and the Gimp need you. But alas I can safely say you will not be up for it. Sad really, considering the Big Soicety is the Corner stone of the Cocks entire gov
Lesson one; Don’t become a socialist.It always ends badly.
You are Billy in disguse as you ave sam spelling and I claim my $1 million .
So these people deserved it. Is that official Tory policy. I suppose women who wear short skirts are gagging for it too. What a classic Daily Mail whore you are. People were Bugged, Hacked, Followed, Storked. Not all celebs
I repeat. Funny how out of 2000+ cases…Not a single Tory MP. Funny that.
Storked!! You mean they were attacked by one of the Ciconiiformes? You clearly went to a public school. A very, very public school.
Repeat.
You are Billy in disguse as you ave sam spelling and I claim my $1 million .
Treat 100% of what you hear from the left as pure fiction and life will be just that little bit easier to understand.
Only 100%?
Anybody watching BBS news 24′s coverage of Greece. Sopels commentary bears no relation to their own pictures. I think they are bigging up public service strikes ready for tomoro
Its supposed to be a subliminal message to the discontented. In Ed’s speech to the multitude (broadcast several times hourly for a week) he won’t be comparing them with civil rights marchers and anti-apartheid campaigners. This time, he’ll tell them their grievances are on a par with the Syrians, the Libyans and the freeloading Greeks.
I’m surprised the BBC hasn’t given him a job yet. They’re very keen on people who make things up.
Perhaps.. Head of Fiction along with an unbelievable salary.
He was offered a job at Sky news…but it didnt appeal to him. 50,000 viewers for main news doent offer much media exposure
More left wing bias on the one show tonight. E mails supporting the view that the public sector is bloated with pen pushers were read out by the presenter only after she prefixed the reading of them by stating “surprisingly some of our viewers agree with this view”. Yes you dim bitch, surpringly quite a lot of people dont actually agree with the BBC left wing agenda.
What’s wrong with Harry?, FFS!
Stop the Bombing of Libya
Protest outside Parliament
Old Palace Yard
6 – 7pm, Tuesday 28th June
…
See map: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ll=51.499102%2C-0.125951&spn=0.001389%2C0.003943&t=h&z=18
The government has announced that the bombing of Libya has so far cost £260 million.
Some defence analysts have said the bombing could cost up to £1 billion by the early autumn.
Liam Fox is reported in The Guardian as saying ‘avoiding civilian casualties was driving up costs’ but concern about civilian deaths from NATO bombing has seen Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini call for an ‘immediate suspension of hostilities’ and Arab League General Secretary Amr Moussa has expressed his misgivings, saying, ‘Now is the time to do whatever we can to reach a political solution’.
mix 1 part industrial action and mix one part ‘elf and safety:
“The two classes that will be affected by this industrial action are X, in
the morning, and Y, in the afternoon. The teacher who would be
taking these classes at these times is involved in the industrial action. We are asking that the Year x children are brought into school at 12.00pm, in time for lunch.
However, having done a risk assessment and taken advice from the Local Authority I have made the decision that Y class should not come into school at all on Thursday 30 June.
The risk of the Reception children not being collected from school at 1.00pm is too great. I am unable to cover any children that are left at school as this would be ‘breaking’ the strike.”
Yippee!, won’t have to spend all day dodging the Police truant patrol van for once.
On this morning’s Today programme, Liam Fox says “it’s impossible to say” how long £43million per month NATO bombings in Libya will last.
The whole Libyan adventure stinks. Cameron should simply say to the people behind this, enough and no more.
But what about the oil he has invested in?
Describing Johann Hari as a Socialist is akin to describing Hyena Boy Cambo as a One Nation Tory
Get over yourself Guido…oh he supposedly told a fib, this from a man ( Guido ) with a string of actual criminal convictions.
Get back to the beach.
Drivel
No its his stock in trade to write accurate reports and interviews. After this he cannot be trusted as he makes things up.
There you go MK, it’s broken o’clock and you are right again.
Cameron isn’t a one nation tory, he’s a social democrat, there is a difference.
Can you tell what that is?
He’s probably been plagiarising other people’s work for years and he’s only got away with it because until today no-one’s actually read anything he wrote.
Perhaps a relative shopped him. Can’t imagine anyone else reading his articles
Johann Hari’s parents should have observed Spike’s dictum: “Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.”
OT – but this is worth reading:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,770673,00.html
German economist tells it like it is! Best quote “I sleep very soundly at night because I believe in the boundless stupidity of the German government.”
Exactly right. If only we had a free press in the UK to report this.
Good link, thanks.
Nice to Charile get £1.96m of tax Payers money. Look forward to the Tax Wankers Alliance…NOT running with this story
1.96m = 90 full time nurses or 1/2 day cost of UK commitment to Operation “Save Hague”
No answer the hacking bullshit you wrote?
Billy cant help but think you are either naive or stupid. I’d go towards the former. Guido has included Phone Hacking Threads, but in every case he is either excusing it, defending it, claiming its a left wing conspiracy or trying to deflect blame away from News Corp to the Mirror. Has never acknowledged the issue was and still is scandalous.
In fact I remember vividly Guido being one of Coulson’s biggest fans, he virtually worships him . OK
“cant help but think you are either naive or stupid.”
Says the second-most naive and stupid person on this blog.
#1 is Mark Pack, obviously.
Nope, if you look at the facts, the mirror has had more complaints than all the others put together, I am ok with equal justice, it seems you are only justice for people you diagree with.
”the prince’s tax bill increased 26.2%, rising £914,000 to £4.39m”
I wonder how much EU cash he gets.
Even gets some indirectly from tenants.
He runs a large farm, manufactures things, employs people, pays taxes and works everyday. Can’t really complain.
Agreed. The figure also includes increased payments to charities…..”The Princes Trust” does some bloody good work with young disadvantaged…the left(all hypocrits to a man and woman)don’t like it because unlike them and their sainted Labour Party HRH at least gets bloody results…Labour of course merely saddle the country with debt(their whole bloody history in government is one catologue of failed economics and debt)and nearly bankrupted a la Greece the country the last time they were in government
I thought we were still allowed to complain about the CAP.
Is this a royal thing or an EU thing?
OK then, if we can’t comlain I’ll say
“the EU paying out tax payer’s money for big farms is great”
Sorry CAP is CRAP, unless you farm. Some farms need it, but it has, surprise, surprise become a gravy train for big farms that exploit it.
Thought it was a Moussa style republican rant
Tax Payers are “Tax Wankers”?
Nothing like spitting in the faces of the people who pay your benefits. Nice.
Oh dear. How Dumb. “”Tax Wankers Alliance”"”
All I heard was tax wankers, I guess your PR skills need some work.
Pissing off taxpayers is not a winning formula, honest.
You nicked the words right outa my mouth..it musta been when I was dissin you…
I’ve heard him mentioned once or
twice before on this blog but
know little about him. But I would guess that
he’s from a wealthyish family, privately educated
and got into his racket by family connections.
I give you my word that I haven’t checked up on him
but would also suggest he’s not a horny-handed son
of the soil. I’m going to check now.
Fuck a duck. Today I am mostly being
completely wrong.
128 Educated at a school connected with Harrow (that’s not your usual ‘bog-standard Comprehensive’, then) and thence, surprise, surprise, to King’s College, Cambridge – allowed to be famous because it was J.M. Keynes who made them a lot of money and making money is all right… in certain circumstances.
I give that Hari a ride recently
Looks like Eds first proper policy will be shot down by his masters.
http://www.labourlist.org/unions-set-to-oppose-milibands-party-reform-plans
Oh dear. That was about the only thing Ed’s come up with that made him look good.
So now the unions make him look weak and stupid, whilst simultaneously their petulant and unpopular strikes start to make Camoron look strong and clever.
The unions. The gift to the Tories that just keeps on giving.
“Johann Hari’s work combines courageous reporting and forceful writing with honest analysis,” said Orwell Prize judge Albert Scardino, a Pulitzer Prize-winning (Guardian) journalist.
The Orwell Prize sounds like a cock sucking fest for fellow travellers. Does Johann bat or bowl, or is he ‘versatile’?
a new Twitter meme…
http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23interviewsbyhari
You tell ‘em Guido
7 Down
The Issues Guido pretends don’t exists
1. UK bail out Greece via IMF
2. Charles fleecing the Tax payer
3. Dave’s HS2 White Elephant. Boss describes opponents as “well-off nimbys”
4. Michele ( Jesus wants me for a sun beam ) Bachmann.
5. High Street store meltdown
6. Doctors Reject NHS Reformed Reforms
7. Jack Straw being ahead of the curve..AGAIN
1 yes
2 your argument has been debated
3 last week
4 go to a USA politcal site
5 go to the FT or a Buisness site
6 The Guardian have excellent coverage
7 he couldnt lie straight in bed.
How is your blog coming along?
7. Jack Straw being ahead of the curve..AGAIN
Is Moussa Koussa aka Will made of Straw?
He is certainly thick enough to be Straw’s dope peddler spawn.
4. Vote Ron Paul instead!
Jack “man of” Straw has NEVER been ahead of the curve.
He is the ultimate provincial lawyer jackass that for 14 years went with the Blair and Brown ebb and flow protecting his P45 while having the presentation skills of a dysfunctional 11 year old.
The beeb are pushing him because they believe the the whole British populace suffer from Alzheimers, much as they themselves do.
That thunder was bloody loud!
Oh, wait. I think it may have been John Prescott farting after a curry.
How about thier accounts?
Fancy a threesome with me and Mad Hattie
Notice this silly cow says train to Athens when she could get on a plane but is afraid to upset the greenists – These fucking socialists always paint themselves and the country into a corner.
Train, London-Athens return cost £658.00. Journey duration, 48 hours each way.
Of course she could just fly Easyjet, £243 return, 3hour flight, but that would not allow the frequent flying hypocrite any political gesture possibility, to publicly display to her adoring morons, how much she ‘cares’ for the planet.
Awful, truly awful woman.
No, she’s right – if it’s getting homophobic, that’s wrong.
But Hari is still a lying, cheating, c’unt. Whatever she says doesn’t change that.
How is it homophobic?
It just says “Interviews with Hari” ?
It’s a slow Tuesday afternoon what do you expect? anyway it’s what hate mobs do.
Hate mob is how lefties describe anyone who they disagree with.
When it’s a leftist mob attacking cops using REAL violence, or daubing the Cenotaph, then that’s just understandable frustration.
The Laurie Penny’s of this world are all useless marxist tools.
Well punk
Did I misrepresent five quotes or was it six?
Must watch to see the Twerp of all Twerps,Michael Gove in action.
Mr Gove will respond to an urgent question on school closures, asked by shadow education secretary Andy Burnham, in the Commons at 3.30pm
Should be good for a laugh !!
The really fun bit is watching lefty apologists on Comment Macht Frei trying to defend him.
199 He’ll just have to fall on his sword, in other words, commit Hari-Kiri…
I’ll get me coat… Oh, thank you, you got it for me!
Groan!
‘Guido sat down for a quiet chat with Johann this morning. He said pensively “I have become the Nadine Dorries of the commentariat, though it is 70% made-up with me.”’
Nice bit of humanising detail. Where did you get that quote from and why haven’t you referenced it? ;o)
Never heard of him.
Is a 4X2?
The BBC were defending Hari this evening in an R4 ‘everyone does it, is he being victimised?’ gamble.
LOL I love the Devil’s Kitchen piece
“I am damn sure that he’s a shitbag. And now I am pretty sure that he’s a liar too. Which makes Johann Hari a lying shitbag.”
His logic is so sound!