Ed Howker broke the news that Hari will be suspended for two months while he is investigated by former Indy editor Andreas Whittam-Smith. Polly, Kelner, Helena, Laurie, Sunny: your boy took a helluva beating.
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Ai Weiwei in China fighting the taxman…
“Under totalitarian rule, no one is protected by law. We will all be the same helpless victims. When a country insists on its lies, it’s time for an artist to bring forth change.”
Ned Flanders – Clegg
Lisa Simpson – Natalie Bennett
Milhouse – Hilary Benn
Martin Prince – Andy Burnham
Edna Krabappel – Luciana Berger
Crazy Cat Lady – Glenda jackson
Comic book guy – John Prescott
Carl – Chucka
Lenny – Philip Hammond
Willie – Eric joyce
Poochie – Gordon Brown
Reverend Lovejoy – Tony Blair
Not me though
MPs expected to vote against Rupert Murdoch taking over BSkyB. With Labour and the government in favour, the motion – “This House believes that it is in the public interest for Rupert Murdoch and News Corporation to withdraw their bid for BSkyB” – may well go through unopposed.
Any such motion is purely advisory though – it is a little bit of political posturing without any substance.
It is like a country telling some one to fuck off. After this more regulations on media ownership could be passed.
Another way to put it; it like criminals UK cannot deport.
Christopher Hitchens, Johann Hari, Claire Rayner… all part of the vocal anti-papal parade in early 2010.
Richard Dawkins must be getting nervous.
In the last 30 years this might be the first time Rupert hasn’t meet the PM.
If they all agree, why have a debate?
Of course, I was forgetting that they are all squeaky clean politicians and will want to have their say about the bad Mr Murdoch and the awful Mr Coulson and that witch Rebekah. I wonder if Mr Baldwin will get a mention too?
They will all have a go at Rupert and his gang. Everyone will want to have a one up on the other side. It will be nice to watch.
Seems that Culture Sport and Media have also extended an invitation to Murdoch Snr;Murdoch Jnr & Brookes to appear before them for ritualistic flaying on live televison although whether the three choose to do so in view of the proposed vote is debateable seeing as how the takeover is probably dead for some time if forever and there is no legal compunction for them to do so…..if I was “Roop” I’d just get on the next plane back to US with junior in tow after having given son clip round the ear for such incompetence …….leaving Rebekkah to take the drop………….
Oh the facile roller coaster ride of populism and mass hysterical outrage.
If I sound bitter its because I am actually kerry katona.
Job Done.
Not yet.
Can we have a vote on the size & influence of the BBC?
Only if we can pick the voters
It should read “Rupert Murdoch and News Corpor
It should read “Rupert MLurdoch and Newe Corporation should be placed before a Court of Justice for industrial scale criminal activitity”
A Dangerous Parliamentary precedent though…….you could effectively table a motion on anything/anyone you didn’t like and how could the government square their role in impartially deciding issue if they’re supporting the motion ? Just because the Culture Secretary abstains doesn’t necessarily solve the matter
It’s not over until the fat
pooflady sings!Jeez, Hari-kari getting a worse fisting than when when he visited that gay brothel in Rio…
Getting battered around the ring never hurt anyone.
I think Gordon could potentially be in serious trouble here. He made his attack on NI from his home and he does not have the protection of parliamentary privilege. We already know that the Sun did not steal Fraser’s medical records and if it turns out no criminals were employed to hack his accounts, Murdoch could sue his arse off.
please please please please please!!
Mm that would be a difficult one for a jury to decide…………Gordon or News International …………they’d probably have to settle for a draw
I was hoping for a harry hill joke when i started reading that.
It’d be like the Winterton/Al Fayed case, one where both sides deserve to lose.
Gordon McTwat Brown has done the impossible – I’ll be cheering for Murdoch all the way if he goes for it.
From his home? I thought Jonah lived under a stone as do so many other crasling slimy things.
The Orwell Prize should be taken away from Johann Hari and given immediately to David Rose.
Rupert Murdoch might hire him.
We might.
I’ve got a better idea.
Suck my cock, Polly, you bitch.
…………and now he’s suspended…………ha ha ha you silly old woman.
Lick my fucking sweaty ringpiece you fucking Leftie bitch.
Learn to spell you pompous, hypocritical, sanctimonious piece of shit! It’s abominations and harassments!
No, Johann is ours
Fuck off, he’s mine.
He’s a man of no integrity although I hope that he has friends to keep an eye on him given how unstable he seems.
Then he could have a top job with Rupert.
Labour Party always on the look out for people with Hari’s talents.
You mean my amazing buggery skills?
Are you a catcher or a pitcher?
I can tell usually, you look like you enjoy a prostate massage.
He’s a man of no integrity you say ! Thats good we need somemore to appear on TV to express their moral outrage over these Hacking shenanigans. I can give him a spot directly after Lord Foulks if he wishes to comment.
No problem, his type never does the fatal deed.
He’ll just become another fat gay twerp fiddling Wikipedia talk pages. Probably while posing as a woman. There’s dozens of them.
Thank goodness you’re being kept busy.
He gonna be the next Labour Spin Doctor?
miliband’s new press officer after baldwin has to resign.
He may have to resort to blogging now.
Easier to cut and paste
I wonder what he will call his blog, Brokehack Johann?
Jimmy, I like your sell. Let’s meet and,who knows,make history. Is this LOVE ??!!??
Call Me
This news brings joy to my heart.
Time to dust off the cross hairs Guido………. that last post seems to have done the trick….
Gotcha!
No point in NI hacking his phone as Johann would have made the messages up himself.
There are going to be a few more journalists in the dole queue very soon by the looks of things. The job centre is going to resemble Soho House. Streets of shame indeed.
Is she shagging him,er, is ‘he’ shagging her, um, oh help.
I doubt it. Hari is a cocoa shunter with no yen for cooze.
DPRUK.blogspot.com: An article on Boutique Leftism, why Miliband will fail and how the Murdochs are identical to the unions http://t.co/ZZyB9QP
Excellent article. Thank you for writing and posting it.
In my last interview with Gandhi he told me this might happen, I wish I’d listened to him rather than that Jesus bloke who told me not to worry.
Stop stealing my shit,man. Not cool. Let’s meet and sort this out. And maybe do sex or something. Yeah.
Suspended on or off pay?
Read my lips. It ain’t over till it’s over. I’ll be back.
doubt anyone will read your lips let alone your bollox
“He will be suspended for two months while he is investigated by former Indy editor Andreas Whittam-Smith.”
Bit harsh, after two months being suspened he may not be alive!
And what would be the point of investigating him after he is suspened?
Still, I better get the lampost ready.
There must be a massive back-order for lamp posts by now. Perhaps they could employ more people…….?
Could bring a bit of tourism back to Beach Head.
I don’t mind. I can get to work on making my first film. It’s a science fiction about alien robots that can transform into vehicles. It’s called The Robots That Can Transform.
That reminds me of a film I saw once. It was about a bus that had to SPEED around the city, keeping its SPEED above fifty, because if its SPEED dropped – it’d explode!
I think it was called “The Bus That Couldn’t Slow Down.”
Or the 159 from Streatham.
A fellow Simpsons fan! Nice!
Leave the bbbboy alone anddd brrrring me another Brrrwandy Alexander.
So he’s been given a two month summer holiday, which he had probably booked last autumn anyway.
Hari’s critics should check their profiles on Wikipedia later tonight in case the mysterious David Rose has made any more naughty edits to them.
I’m not that stupid. It’ll be …. er …. er …. think of an original name, Hari ….. Come on …… err ….. Ravid Dose. That’ll do.
Well done Fawkes. You’re next you drunken right-wing bastard.
*BURRRP*
You made me spill my Guinness all over my solar-powered thong.
OK so militwit wants a vote in the HoC to tell murdoch to clear off and not come back.
And if he does just that and shuts down his other UK papers making even more people redundant , what exactly is militwit proposing to say to those left without a job?
Or perhaps he’s hoping the guardian will buy them up and run them alongside the rest of their loss making empire.
Ed Minibrain does not ‘do’ consequences.
Just like when he saddled the economy with an 80% cut in Carbon emmissions at a staggering upfront cost of £720 billion, with no quantifialble benefit.
Action and reaction just fly right over the numbskulls head.
If Murdoch has ploughed a lot of money into a political party to ensure he got a yes vote, he’ll be extremely pissed off.
Wouldn’t like to be on the wrong side of him, but would like to see who has to fall on their sword next………
Murdoch seems to be a gambler. I suspect he’ll play the long game and wait his chances for revenge somewhere around 2015.
As Arnold once told me, I’ll be back.
Yes – but doing what?
I told you – as a Blue Peter presenter. “Here’s one I made earlier.”
“Here’s one I made up earlier” surely?
Perhaps not
97= fantasy
80= plagairism
Pressure piles? Sounds painful!
Oh, he’ll be used to a sore arse.
I bet Gordon has three hopes tonight:
One that murdoch and rebekah don’t keep their word to attend the HoC Committee next week that wants to question them.
And two he has to be praying that the Committee doesn’t ask them about their source for this 2006 gordon story that he’s been weeping about all over the telly today.
And three he’ll be hoping they don’t ask mcbride to appear .
OK Guido so what was modded there? m cb ri de?!
Can we expect to see any ‘Accidents’ over the next week or so. If I were Brown or Miliband I’d stay away from the theater and restaurants with street frontal plate glass windows.
and Bulgarian Tourists with rolled umbrellas
Grim to see the name of Whittam Smith twice in the news today. Dreadful pompous prat.
I’m lookinh for a new opening
.. Take a load off JohAnni (Rah), And (and) (and) you can put the load right on me. …
News Corp may be at risk for U.S. probe over bribery
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/12/us-newscorp-usa-bribery-idUSTRE76A6PH20110712
That law makes it a crime for any company with U.S. ties to bribe foreign officials to obtain or retain business.
British media outlets reported that News of the World reporters bought phone details for the royal family from a security officer. The Daily Mirror newspaper reported, citing an unidentified source, that News of the World reporters had also offered to pay a New York police officer to retrieve the private phone records of victims of the September 11 attacks.
This is a few days old.
Yanks have a bloody cheek anyway – they’ve used Menwith Hill for years to listen to all our telephone conversations for free.
No it’s not, the charges are but the fact that Obama may take on News Corpse is breaking News stateside
Look at the flock of vultures, I bet half of those circling are rival american news organisations.
Don’t forget George Soros’ Media Matters!
I want to know if my phone was hacked and if not,why not?
I’d give the Hunt a beating if he asked for it. That’s all he’d get mind you: he’s still a Hunt after all.
It reflects badly on The Independent that it took them so long to realise. Or maybe they were pretending it wasn’t happening, News International-style.
They didn’t know it was happening until they hacked Hari’s phone.
So how much of gordon’s sob story that he told us today was true??? Hmm??!!
“There is also the issue of permission. Sun sources tell me that Rebekah Brooks gained Brown’s permission to run the story. There are also claims that Brown effectively did a deal on the story, whereby George Pascoe Watson could break the exclusive online first and then Number 10 could put out their own statement” Paul Waugh.
Double first!
Don’t you mean double fist?
Pork pies past their sell by date. Now back to the studio.
Thanks Kris, love. Natty tweeds, by the way. Hugs.
When the papers went for the MPs over expenses ‘they were all at it , or at least they all knew about it’ the MPs all said ‘not me Guv, I didn’t know nuffink’.
Then the journalists blamed the Bankers for the crash -’they were all at it , or at least they all knew about it’ the Bankers all said ‘not me Guv, I didn’t know nuffink’.
Now the journalists know how it feels to be the public’s whipping boy.
Oh the wonderful journalists.
Porn, duck houses, bath plugs and moats. eye catching. short words. not too hard on the brain.
Leaving 200 of them stuffing their pockets to the max in more dull ways to live on peacefully.
Oh the wonderful journalists.
Porn, duck houses, bath plugs and moats. eye catching. short words. not too hard on the brain.
Leaving 200 of them stuffing their pockets to the max in more dull ways to live quiet lives
Hari is an amateur.
You could take him on at NI as Head of Compliance.
Who cares and will it improve my quality of life?
There is a job for Hari with the BBC.
Kind Regards
BBC Trust
This site wants a final solution for Johann Hari.
I yam what I yam.
I love doing a poo in Waitrose
I love running around the UK Guido
Makes me think of the old days
Buggery, thuggery and skullduggery at every corner of the street
No 10 when you were so well informed
Both Houses of Parliament
The legal profession (have you seen the lovely professional porkies of Murdoch’s solicitors cited ion the HoC today?! – you only need to be “under instuctions to tell any lie to cover up criminal behaviour)
Now the largest press organisation in the UK (and the world) telling lies, hiring criminals and tre
I love running around the UK Guido
Makes me think of the old days
Buggery, thuggery and skullduggery at every corner of the street
No 10 when you were so well informed
Both Houses of Parliament
The legal profession (have you seen the lovely professional porkies of Murdoch’s solicitors cited ion the HoC today?! – you only need to be “under instuctions to tell any lie to cover up criminal behaviour)
Now the largest press organisation in the UK (and the world) telling lies, hiring criminalS
I cannot think of anybody I would less less like to piss off than Rupert Murdoch
do the left really think he hasn’t got industrial quantities of woe that he can spray where he wants?
He’s also got industrial quanities of money he can spray where he wants, too.
You couldn’t make it up!
If you believe as a libertarian in individual rights
What are you now saying about Murdoch’s industrial scale breach of those rights FFS? And his organisation’s criminal cover up ?
Either you come out fighting on this or your are a total fraud..
Harry’s in charge. Speak to him. I’m on my eighth pint.
Nobody here is denying that NI were hacking phones for 10 years or more. Even NI’s not denying it.
The elephant in the room, emphasised strongly by gordon’s appearance all over the news today, is why, when labour clearly knew what was going on , neither bliar nor gordon did anything to stop it and rather a lot to hush it up?
Why? Hmmmm?! Hopefully cameron’s inquiry will provide the answer.
‘Libertarians’ only belief is in the right of the rich to do what the fuck they like.
Here, have an apostrophe ‘ and a ‘believe’.
Choose wealthier parents in your next life, you whining toad.
Libertarians in quotes (denoting irony). Belief – as in ‘their belief’. Noun rather than verb you see.
Now tell us which bog-standard comprehensive you went to Bigboy.
Johann Hari has an exciting two months of sitting on the couch in his boxers, sobbing, eating Haagen-Daaz and getting fat again to look forward to.
It is old but it is beautiful, and well worth putting in my column!
There’s nothing worse than the British in one of their fits of morality.
Its hard being a queen.
Am i the only one that thinks Brillo is the best journo/interviewer at the BBC?
I’ll thumb ya Billy Botty , babes .
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The barbell on his back is tiny, the grip is too narrow, the elbows are in the wrong position and he is leaning too far forward.
If you are going to squat with a barbell, he should at least have the dignity and sense to use a man’s weight.
This is simply disturbing.
The pubic buy the shite , the press sell the shite . Collateral damage was bound to happen
Mr Hari has just been offered the editorship of the ‘News of the World’.
Gordon Brown: ”Mmmmmmm Missssterrr Speakkker please protect me from that nasty man Mmmmmisssstttterrrr Murdoch.
This from March (excuse me if you already had it)
http://www.taxpayersalliance.com/economics/2011/03/johann-haris-convenient-lie.html
Willard foxton huffington post
really puts the cheating little shit to the sword
So Yates has the Fish’s full support? I think we can see where this is going. Ta Fish. BTW, do you know that Johann Hari’s a poof? It’s not natural, dat sort o’ ting.
No big deal when you consider the phone hacking of Milly Dowler’s phone