The Met Widens the Net
With Cameron on his feet for three hours, and the reality of the Euro crisis taking the hold, for the first time in weeks the phone-hacking scandal isn’t top of the news. It’s still worth noting the Met’s interest in other newspaper groups though. The Beeb is heavily trailing a Radio 4 documentary that reveals tonight:
“Police have asked for files of an earlier inquiry into the use of private investigators… the files from Operation Motorman, which was run by the Information Commissioners Office in 2003, were requested three months ago. They contain 4,000 requests from 300 journalists and 31 publications for confidential information from a private investigator, which in many cases had been obtained illegally.”
Just what these illegal activities might have been was summed up by Nick Davies in 2009. As Guido revealed graphically last year, this is bad news for Trinity Mirror:
Guido has something up his sleeve for the circular firing squad today. Watch this space…
Chris Huhne is resigning, real soon now . . .
Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal said on Wednesday he believes that News Corp will emerge from the current crisis and that he does not plan to sell any of his shares in the company. Alwaleed, who says his Kingdom Holding is the second biggest shareholder in News Corp and controls seven per cent of the votes, said he believes that News Corp’s leadership should not change.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/8617707/News-of-the-World-phone-hacking-live.html
and judging by Rupert and James Murdoch performence other day, who can blame him.
Does this mean Cameron is working for Rupert as well as Prince Alwaleed bin Talal.
This could be the reason King Rupert was against transferring power to EU because its his power that was transferred.
I think we should have two refrandoms to free us from EU as well as King Rupert.
No refrandom ( sic ) on the extortion funded Guardian television service, aka, the BBC? I think you will find that ‘King Rupert’ is small beer by comparison.
Fully agree, the Murdochs came across as completely on top of their game. OK, Rupert did look a bit out of it, especially when he nodded off, but if Billy and a Saudi prince agree about their performance, that’s good enough for us.
Suspect the nodding off was a bit of a ruse and the sprightly old dog gave his mrs a damn good seeing to when they got back to his pad.
Selohesra says: July 21, 2011 at 10:35 am
Oil billionaire J. Howard Marshall was giving his wife Anna Nicole Smith damn good seeing as well. You might remember the story.
Yes, Selohesra. Murdoch and Son achieved want they wanted before the idiot MPs. The latter thought they were calling the shots, I think thy’ll find its the other way about.
So who is governing UK?
Van Rumpy.
The BBC would love to run the country.they are having a good go at the
moment
let them go pay for veiw that will shut the fuckers down.
Her Majesty’s Government.
And don’t forget it.
Looks more like Majesty’s Government from Saudi!
Her Majesty’s Government are little more than glorified errand boys for Brussels directives these days.
And don’t forget that either.
Mark Thompson
Nobody, really. Nearly everything important happens without, or despite, any Government intervention. It’s like a giant factory where a group of visitors from Head Office in business suits and yellow plastic helmets wander round occasionally pressing a button here or tapping a keyboard there. Every so often this causes a major disaster but it is mostly harmless.
All the staff wish the visitors would go back to their snug offices and concentrate on doing their own jobs competently.
Ah yes! The machine that goes ‘ping’ crowd.
The Freemasons.
ME !
But nursie says I must have a little nap first.
Not you…
nobody
they’re all on holiday until october
they still get paid tho’
AN INVITATION
Mr and Mrs Scrotal-Contents would like to invite
Mr Gordon Brown, – our Hero,
The Directors and Senior Staff of AlJaBeeba, the Grouniad, and Senior LieBore Party members
To a Reception at our lovely home
To celebrate our recent comprehensive victory
Over the Tory Party
And the running dogs of Imperialism and
News International
Lots of Fun guaranteed!
Gordon sold it to the oligarchs, the Hindujas and that Indian bloke who hired Mandelson and Blair as his agent.
You scratch my hack and I’ll scratch yours.
Labour keep boring us with accusations that Cameron may have had conversations with Murdoch executives about the BSkyB takeover. They seem to forget that Holy Tony actually LOBBIED the Prime Minister of Roumania about selling that country’s steel industry to Lakshmi Mittal, a foreign businessman at the time who then generously donated a very large sum to the Labour Party when the deal went through. Don’t forget Blair also lied to Parliament when he said Mittal’s company was BRITISH when in fact he only employed around 64 people in this country.
Then there was Brown who made sure competition rules were relaxed to allow Lloyd’s Bank to takeover HSBC, a deal that was arranged with Victor Blank over cocktails at a social event.
No, that’s been happening for ages.
Promise?
Bunter Watson and a smoking bun ?
Bang on!!!!
Let the games begin!!!!!
fuck you Miliband you jumped up parasite, tax avoiding arsehole, you do not know what you have done.
If you do, you are very stupid
Shouldn’t you be getting ready to do some umpiring this morning?
Play doesnt start till 11
A day of slow-moving, torrential downpours. Look forward to long periods of repeats interspersed by the clatter of wickets. I hope and pray England end up bowling first. In the muggy conditions, Anderson should be unplayable for an Indian side short of practice.
but don’t you think england need a couple more south africans in the team???
Nah – We’ll let the Aussies recruit a few, their need is greater than ours.
Remember Billy he is only a (rubber) mouthpiece, and does exactly what his various handlers tell him.
He-just-dosn’t-get-it.
I know, he doesnt even get the duckworth lewis method!
Miliband minimus is beginning to look just like Wallace of Wallace & Gromit fame.
Poor Gromit..
Milliband? Educated beyond the level of his intelligence if you ask me
Not educated, just as well-qualified as paternalism could get him, like most of the opposition front bench.
Put the guardian in that sentence about tax avoidance
I wonder if Toilets is “bricking it” now?
As I sat with Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal on (insert day) drinking (research needed, what does he drink?) he sighed locquaciously and said he believes that News Corp will emerge from the current crisis and that he does not plan to sell any of his shares in the company. I nodded, knowingly…
“Guido has something up his sleeve for the circular firing squad today”
Delicious – popcorn ready.
I’m stocking up on extra lining for the bottom of the old fellah’s cage – he’s getting a bit restless waiting for this latest revelation… I do hope he doesn’t sploot again, had a dreadful time cleaning up last time that happened!
huh huh huh, he said stocking
This is why the the Lab grandstanding of “oh how awful” and the hypocrisy is going to look like a wet fart when they get to the real heart of stuff.
Yes but it will be off of the top slot on the B-bbc and only mentiond in passing being overshadowed by how we will all be going to hell in a handcart if the Euro is allowed to fail.
Europe is unthinkable without the Euro!!! Good…
Ten years ago the EUro did not exist, I seem to recall Europe functioning perfectly well without it.
Europe functioning perfectly well – hahahaha!
I seem to recall England functioning perfectly well without Europe.
If I had my way the Royal Artillery would be setting up shop on the cliffs of Dover and the first round up the barrel would be Nick Clegg.
…and the first shot fired would be a dud.
Are the MET going to re-open Cash for honours, cash for admendments and expenses investigations?
Come on England !!!! 2000th test match, against India today , at the home of cricket.
Only downside is weather, but this is England.
The bloody should because anyone with an ounce of a brain knew that was shut down “on orders”. Total whitewash. Yates of the Yard has a lot to answer for.
But not as we know it Billy.
2000th or 1999th ?
That old chesnut
Sky sports with Lord Gower, Bumble , athers, Hussian, Ward say 2000th.
The Beeb also say 2,000th, and I believe everything thay say.
Two thouthanth? ooh thath lotht and lotht!
Gower is a mendacious, patronising idiot
Hussein is a loud mouthed essex yob
Lloyd still wears nappies
Ward should be in a hospital
I remember the late great Denis Compton, still much missed, saying on air during a 1971 test match v India, that after a short ball from John Snow was really delivered with force on a dead pitch ” Snow proving the old adage, that the harder you push it in, the further it goes..” cue giggles from B. Johnstone and co., which led the blessed Denis to compound his error by saying ” thats on the cricket pitch of course!” To a teenage boy this was a hoot.
perhaps they should be playing it in Wales?
Already had 1 test in Wales against Sri Lanka (The one we won)
It is the “England and Wales cricket board” tho.
No Billy
it is the England and Wales and South African and Irish Cricket Board
they are all odius morons
What are the odds on a no ball on delivery 43 (that’s assuming the Indians field) ?
Good. About time that the focus shifted on Motorman and ICO report, reproduced in part as an appendix to the hacking report released on Wednesday. I bet the Met will undertake this task with some enthusiasm!
They were all at it. Everyone knew about Coulson, the busiest bee in the hive. That’s why Cameron hired him in the first place! I bet Labour would have hired him if they had the opportunity.
Chuck them all out. Leave media relations to civil serpents, as it used to be.
Well blow me down, now that parliament is in recess odious Balls has floated to the surface to spouthis bile.
Hes on sky now. I feel sick
He was on labournight, sorry newsnight last night too
+ 1
Its a bit rich blinky telling the Greeks they have run up too much debt.
Particularly as we keep loading them up with ever more debt, to err, pay off the original debt….
It’s fun playing Jenga with bars of bullion, isn’t it?
Fatty poohs tend to float.
Darling on Today prog. BBC attempt to endorse labour’s financial competence.
Bob, I think i can safely say that you spe*k on behalf of all of us on Order-Order with your perils of wisdom.
…or even pearls of wisdom.
Opps , Yes , but you all knew what i meant
Just post them on here Louise. We’d love to read more.
Tell you what Piers, YOU come back to the UK and give your version under oath in front of Lord Justice Leveson at the enquiry
Remind me Piers, which newspapers did you edit and when?
City slickers and falsified photos. Not really in your interests to show off.
Hi Piers, I’d love to take you outside, tie you up, naked. I’d then smear you with rotten meat and watch the rats and birds feast on slug. That’s the only smearing I’d like to do to you.
Oooooh, my hero!
Piers doesn’t like his own medicine. Piers you protest too much!
He-just-doesn’t-get-it.
Want to buy a story about a goose that can solve quadratic equations Peirs? Just up your street.
I couldn’t make it. I’ve got a touch of the flu.
NO ONE picks on Louise and gets away with it! She is the hottest totty in politics since Anne Widdecombe.
Next time Morgan, it’s WAR!
Ed Balls has just been on BBC News 24. He was allowed to waffle on lying and spinning. Now if that was not BBC labour bias then nothing is. He must have ranted for three minutes, almost as long as a party political broadcast.
WHY IS SOMETHING NOT DONE ABOUT THE BBC?
Why is something not done about Ed Balls is more to the point.
Truth be told he is the best reason that the Tories have in persuading people not to vote Labour. Even Labour didn’t want him as Chancellor FFS.
Thanks to Red Ed, Cameron now has a cast iron excuse to ‘ever so helpfully’ investigate previous administrations ‘which otherwise isn’t done old chap’ and also put a bit of stick about the BBC ‘while broad mindedly looking at all the media’. Good job Ed. Oh yes, your colleagues will love you – especially Gordon and Tony
And me boyo!
Sounds Llanfair to me.
Has he lost weight?
Now that RedEd has, “forced”, Dave into ordering a wide-ranging enquiry going back to the start of the Labour years in power, but not in Office, Ed’s probably spent the week shitting himself wondering where the evidence will lead. No wonder he looks off-colour.
He was also on the wireless. Not sure what his point was, or the point of him.
5 Live also allowed the scumbag some air-time to re-write political history.
He failed to mention, nor was he pulled up on, the fact that darling signed us up to the EU bail outs whilst the current government was being formed.
Because it is allowed to be regulated from within.
Which in reality means NO ACCOUNTABILITY FOR POLITICAL BIAS.
this is bad news for Trinity Mirror
Not according to the B-BBC – this morning Toady was spinning how it was bad news for the Daily Mail, which apparently made the largest number of (presumably illegal) information requests.
The Sunday People and the Mirror made fewer requests than the Mail, according to the BBC.
So it must be right.
Trinity Mirror: 1663 incidents by 139 journalists
Mail Group: 1248 incidents by 95 journalists
News International: 182 incidents by 19 journalists
Don’t forget that the UnHoly Trinity comprises of The Mirror, The Sunday Mirror and the Sunday People. The BBC is wrong (again). News International come out as saints compared to the Trinity.
http://www.ico.gov.uk/upload/documents/library/corporate/research_and_reports/what_price_privacy_now.pdf
That’s right. We have decided to target the Mail next. Here’s what Damien and I gave to Polly to copy out last week
Rejoice at Rupert Murdoch, but the Daily Mail still darkens the horizon | Polly Toynbee
The Guardian, 15 Jul 2011
BBC will try shift focus on Mail rather than Mirror because Mirror is labour-biased and labour will give beeb more money aan higher gold-plated pensions – it’s quite transparent really.
For same reason beeb puts all its expensive job adverts in Guardian, financially incentivising Guardian to write pro beeb as well as pro labour – also quite transparent.
One way to at least prevent beeb using the job adverts to buy itself a friendly voice in the papers is a new law that requires all branches of the public sector, including quangos for more than 25% dependant on taxpayer, to spread their advertising and to provide accounts every year how advertising budgets have been spent.
It is so obvious (I noticed it as a foreigner) that labour bribed the guardian with staff adverts during the public sector’s strong growth in the period 1997-2010 that conservatives should press to look into this with all the enquiries into relationship between politics and media. During labour’s last period in government the Guardian chairman switched to a minister post (Myners), while Mandelson’s ex PA switched to Guardian (Wagg Prosser). Then there is Ms Ashley whose father is labour peer, an MP on media committee who used to write for Observer and re beeb, Guardian journo Milne’s father was beeb chairman.
Baffles me why conservatives don’t take action on this. Lazy bunch who don’t want to get their hands dirty. Suits me. If labour return to power, easy money shorting sterklng and gilts (BoE eventually needs to stop pretending it does not have a right-hand column in its balance sheet).
How could I forget: Guardian Ashley’s hubby is beeb presenter, who incidentally has a common acquaintance with Ed Mili and said acquaitance works for a paper in the Murdoch stable!
Ha, ha: Ashley embodies the guardian-beeb-labour congsi. Ashley provides the ideal argument in favour of including beeb in plurality test!
I couldn’t agree more.A lot of us on this site have urged Cameron to sort out the BBC from Day 1 or they will finish him off but he has done nothing. I’m beginning to think that he no longer deserves to succeed.There is absolutely no point in trying to behave properly with them -they take it as a sign of weakness.There is no fight in them at all-effette,public-school pillocks,all of them.
I don’t think anything will change.
I was disappointed to hear Cameron say yesterday that the wide media would come under the scrutiny of the enquiries, only if it was shown that there had been some wrong doing.
He seemed to suggest that the Beeb would not come under the general investigation into politician’s relationship with the media – it would make the enquiry too wide. I think that he needs to clarify this and if what he says is correct, think again.
Re BBC ads in the Guardian it not only encourages a mutual scratching of backs – but it also has implications for recruitment. It attracts candidates only from a narrow (cess?) pool of people with similar political leanings – you don’t get the mix of people therefore that represents the make up of its viewers. And you don’t get the internal challenges needed in an organisation – when everyone talks the same language; can’t see beyond the end of their own little world, you get institutional and unconscious bias.
I would have thought that a politically correct organisation, deeply into ‘equal opps’ would have understood this.
(I think that I am being generous here – I don’t doubt that there are also activists at work, using ‘comedy’ for e.g. as a vehicle to get their bile across, targetting the young)
I agree that recruiting is narrowed down to fellow thinkers, a very improtant angle that I also have mentioned.
Another anglo re beeb-guardian-labour operations: how much do you get as a non-beeb journo when you comment on beeb, as many times seems to happening with Guardian journa as well as Mirror’s pro-labour political commentator?
Guardian must be laughing, taxpayer funding guardian as well as beeb and getting paid twice for doing labour’s bidding. Glad I don’tpay tax in UK anymore …
my spelling!@!@#@!#$%%^#%^&$@#!!
improtant, read: important
anglo, read: anglo
and i’m not even product of local authority school
My Tory MP sees absolutely nothing wrong with the BBC. Indeed he sees it as a very useful media source. He supports the government completely overruling the wishes of his constituents. I think he could be gay. He never takes any notice of his constituents rather chooses to patronise them instead.
Piers Morgan v Louise Mensch.
Piers, it’s not nice being picked on and shown up is it. Mind you you did the exact same thing when you was the editor at the Daily Mirror. You don’t like your own medicine do you.
Even with all your wealth and the backing of CNN you didn’t win against Mensch.
Methinks you ranted on too long during the interview, that showed that you have something to hide. It would be hard to believe that any editor of a scumbag publication would not have gone with stories obtained dubiously.
Surely I’m not on my own in my thoughts.
Piers Morgan and CNN pick on Louis Mensch.
We, the British Public, are not going to stand for that!
Normally I would tend to side with anyone who puts it to Piers Moron.
However, the individual in question decided to shit on the British people herself to the tune of £10 billion, that I and worse still, my children will have to pay for.
So as I have no dog in this fight and wish them both, the very worst of luck, health and prosperity in the coming years.
Likewise much as I detest Morgan, Mensch has fucked up here. After watching her performance on that committee of arseholes I am of the view that she is not as clever as she thinks she is.
Why is this coming out now – the day after parliament went on holiday?
Plus the NI solicitors being ‘free to speak to parliament’ – on the day it isn’t now possible for 3 months?
Presumably Express Newspapers are so low on the graph because Diana’s current phone is proving difficult to hack
To be honest the inbox was a bit chocka but after deleting a few messages we got some new mail to open.
Forgive me asking, but why is the Libsh*te Clegg doing action man ,rusty the u-turn warmongers job running the country, don’t we pay enough in taxes out to keep all these deadbeats in clover, do we need two PM’s ,can’t we sack one of them.
If it hasn’t already happened, it soon will – “Phone hacking caused by climate change” says BBC.
Or how about “Phone hacking causes climate change!”
“Phone hacking caused by Climate change” presented by John Barrowman
Predictions on the test series?
India v England.
Yes, you predicted correctly, Billy.
Now, what about the score?
Billy I can honestly say I couldn’t a monkey’s uncle who wins what,good luck to both sides, so long as they do what they are paid to do , entertain people then it’s ok by me.
There will be some batting, some bowling and some fielding. And rain.
1-0 to England, 3 drawn to to weather caused by global cooling. Tendulkar will fail to score a century due to dodgy LBW decisions which cannot be corrected as India won’t use Hawkeye.
BTW. England are the home team, though the crowd composition will make it look like an away series. It’s England v India, not the other way round.
I like the anaylisis, i reckon 2-1 (weather allowing), But i do hope the little master gets his 100th 100 at Lords ( he hasnt got one there).
Oh and i hope tim breason is picked over broad.
come on tim
Apparently Monty Panesar has been helping Tendulkar in the nets. What does this mean ? If Tendulkar gets his ton, does Monty get an OBE ………..?
With all this hacking & smearing malarky going on…would anyone wish to hear about the time that I may have hacked off the tagnuts around Katy D’s plump arse & then smeared her buttocks with peanut butter..before sorting her out over the bonnet of my spitfire?
Fucking Clegg is putting a spanner in the Euro works. Do we really have to dance to his pro Euro, pro EU tune? It’s fucked Nick, we need to let them sort their own problems out.
You can tell when the senior brass in the BBC have ordered a major propaganda effort, from the effect on the Radio News. Usually this is a haven of real stories, with a bias towards international news, science and of course music. Before last year’s general election, though, it began to feature anti-Tory spin and this morning they ran the Motorman story, much to the bafflement and indifference (I should think) of many listeners.
Radio 3
it also became big on the World Service which usually keeps quite a balanced tone. I was most surprised by hearing Ed Balls’ dulcet tones blaming the Euro crisis on Osborne this morning on the WS.
I don’t know whether they are going for broke or whether they now realise that nobody can or will do anything about their bias….
Like this you mean?
http://cityunslicker.blogspot.com/2011/07/voice-of-people.html
Dave has played a bit of a blinder by including the BBC in the inquiry. They ain’t going to be Happy.
Remember Primarkgate.
Primarkgate is a good point. The BBC were caught falsifying evidence to discredit a popular and successful High Street store, which could have resulted in the store losing millions of pounds in sales. Imagine if the NOTW were caught doing that.
Your link to the 2009 Guardian article again raises the question – How did the Guardian get this information??? Presumably it came from lists obtained by the police – just like the recent hackgate lists of phone numbers.
Oh please! Oh please! Oh please! Oh please! Oh please! Oh please! Oh please! Oh please!
Let Piers Morgan get fvcked up by this and eventually sent to prison.
Oh please! Oh please! Oh please! Oh please! Oh please! Oh please! Oh please! Oh please!
The British Media have become really really boring. Coulson, Coulson, Coulson. The media have all gone ito the same BBC News loop.
MOVE ON MEDIA FOR GOD’S SAKE, LET’S HAVE SOME NEWS
Do understand, there is an entire generation of churnalists who know nothing about how to find news when they aren’t doing it by dodgy menas. In the absence of any genuine curiosity, skills or ability they have to rely on press hand-outs, twittter and re-hashing each others’ work for their stories.
I know how to find news. I get it spoon-fed to me by Wonks, Spinners and SpAds. *hic!*
What I want to know is how much their houses are all worth.
Don’t go after the Mirror. We have ways of getting revenge. We’re merciless.
Will the Met widen the net to include itself?
I think Ed has fucked up big time here, If he had stuck to Coulson then he would have landed some blows, by bringing News Corp into it and now all media he has managed shoot himself in both feet and bollocks.
We may moch Dave for for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory but ED has outdone Dave this time, He will face a hostile media (excpet Guardian/bbc), a lot of pissed of journos and maybe no more invites to Ruperts slumber parties…
Read the link above – CPS were told in 2006.
It is starting to unravel. Cover up by Tone.
Oh joy!!!!!
This will run for a year with Judge led inquiry, more damage to Labour and current shadow minsters.
If Tony Blair ends up in front of the beak for this it will be like getting Al Capone on tax evasion. If he can slip out of the dodgy dossier noose he can get out of anything.
A great piece by Nick Davies, but devalued by the current concentration on the “Dirty Digger”!
Today the dark clouds will roll over Europe. Fiscal Union of the Euro zone will become inevitable and the PIGS will loose all Sovereignty.
For the Greek people the best thing would be to default, dump the Euro and reinstate the Drachma. For the ruling elite of Europe this would be financial ruin, The elite will win unless the people can bring about a revolution.
from a country that elected Bush jnr and Obama. I’ll hold on their advice about leaders if you don’t mind….
How much of a stake has CNN in protecting their own investments in damaged goods?
If they don’t want him, we’ll sign him up as the new Johnathon Ross.
£8 million plus you can use your own production company to make the show and have all the copyrights. OK, Piers?
Is Tonybee Angela Merkel’s fatter sister?
Merkel is intelligent and successful and has achieved that success through her own efforts, rather than inheriting it. They cannot be related.
DC has been contaminated by the many crimes of the Blair regime – crimes which he should have ordered investigated the moment he took office, but about which he did nothing. Now Dave is doomed, and the whole Conservative Party with him.
So according to the graph above Murdoch was one of the more responsible newspaper proprietors, another select committee investigation needed? (LOL).
Has the BBC hired any private detectives in pursuit of investigations of any nature?
Yes, they have an army of dodgy characters that go around threatening people with £1000 fines and imprisonment, its the biggest protection racket in history, give us £12 a week or else.
‘The BBC has hired private detectives to help make its investigative programmes, according to the corporation’s director-general.’
The Times
Weren’t me guv, – honest! – I woz over there!
I’ve just carried out a full inquiry into the BBC.
Everything is fine. Except we could do with a licence fee hike.
Knobinson and his scruffy raincoat could do with a trip to the dry-cleaners.
shame someone can’t take him to the cleaners..complete prat
Why does everyone hate Nick Robinson–he looks pretty harmless to me. Useless of course, absolutely useless, and utterly superfluous, but not really a threat to anyone. And I find it reassuring that such a plain looking man, of no obvious ability, can get such a prominent, well remunerated position.
There are lots of unanswered questions about this.
So that’s it. America has lost the space race. Viva Obama.
Много спасибо для вашей жалкой программы космоса. Мы выигрываем!
Poor effort. You missed out an apostrophe.
Дуньте, я.
If Sky TV didnt exsist and all the current Sky programs/channels were owned by the BBC , would the left complain?
Yes. They’d complain that there was too much air time devoted to the elitist sport of cricket.
They’d complain that it was too highbrow and that there weren’t enough tacky game shows, celebs and reality crap that the BBC specialises in.
India win toss and choose to bowl, Y.V signh (Pie chucker) dropped.
Is this Singh another sub continent thrower ? Not seen him.
FFS Broad still not dropped!!!!!!!!!
I like to widen my net. Wibble.
Gordon says: I was hacked but not by the Daily Mirror.
I look forward to the Sunday Mirror explaining how they got hold of Rio Ferdinand’s mobile phone records in 2003 to expose him for missing a drugs test. They obviously thought they were being helpful at the time……
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4161/is_20031019/ai_n12882660/
thank you Private Eye for bringing it to my attention
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2003/oct/23/privacy.pressandpublishing
OMG OMG OMG OMG – ‘The met are widening their net’???
I must confess i’m shitting bricks right now!!
Do you need me to wipe your bot bot?
Typical Labour lying and rewriting of history.
Terra Jowell can easily be summed up. Wife of a fraudster. Best friend of Mrs Alan Rusbridger. Has double act with Ken Livingstone.
So Blunkett was Home Sec and did nothing about claims of payments to Police and now works for NI?
I hope that nice Mr. Miliband will shout as loudly about this..
Blunkett had done a lot of favours for NI. It was the least they could do. – Mind you, according to Tom Watson if someone takes money from NI that is proof that they’ve been bought off.
David Blunkett (home secretary) was very good friends with Rebekah Brooks around that time. that might be the reason he turned a blind eye to phone hacking
Good to see that the greatest umpire ever is on the field for this historic test match.
Let battle comence.
Keep your hands in your pockets, Billy.
Only if its not out
Get ready for the no-balls.
Its India, Not P*kistan
When Blowers shuts up (not often), I think I can hear Billy jangling his loose change.
Have you sen the debate about the DRS, Sky will still show it (Viewr enjoyment), BUt it will not be shown on the big screen at Lords.
So I hear.
Maybe the net should widen to the Mail on Sunday
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/2133004.stm
maybe worth asking a few questions with the benefit of hindsight
By any yardstick on Guido’s graph “The Mirror” needs to be the first port of call unless of course concentrating on the Mail gives the Mirror more time to sanitise their paper trail. Tackling the alleged biggest offender first is an intellectual no brainer unless of course you are a member of the BBC/Guardian/Labour Party.
hey, don’t get me wrong The Mirror is a good place to start and the Ulrika/Sven story and Rio Ferdinand story is very suspect.
But while the MoS is running adverts trying to pick up readers from the demise of NOTW and running articles sticking the boot in to NI when they are potentially worse is disgusting
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, Can we have a political party in power that would
put this country back together again from the dysfunctional 4th rate nation we
have become. The entire Commons should resign in shame & be barred from
ever entering politics again.
A Written Constitution should be in place that has the interests of the nation
at its core. We should pull out of the EU. Stop all foreign aid until the needs
of all levels of British society have been met or can be covered. Our armed
forces be recalled to look after the defence of Britain only. Any new rail
rolling stock, ships etc., to be built should be awarded to British Companies
& there should be a total block on immigration. With all illegals forcibly
deported no matter if their home country would persecute them.
Sort this country out quickly somebody, before I really get suicidal.
PLEASE, PLEASE. PLEASE.
A programme on Radio 4 isn’t likely to be documentary whatever the BBC is calling it. It’ll be a PPB on behalf of the Labour Party that’s been overseen by someone from the Guardian.
EU commissioners want to set up their own debt agencies because the current ones are not reporting the right kind of risk assessment. Yeah right, these are the people who haven’t signed off the audit of EU accounts for 14 years.
AND you lot forgot the Mirrors MAGUIRE was on BBC World Service today spouting shite..what a wanker!
Mr Morgan said he entertained the “little trick” of entering a “standard four digit code”, which allowed “anyone” to call a number and “hear all your messages”.
Let’s see if he enjoys four digits being entered inside him while in prison!
beginning to see why they call it a “stretch”…
Absolutely. Priceless.
http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/2011/07/ed-miliband-ends-the-baldwin-controversy/#axzz1SjOpPOeq
Anyone notice the ripple of laughter when Handycock stood up to ask a question at the debate yesterday?
Who is Handycock? What’s his phone number? Did I win? Really? Oh my God!
Why do lottery winners go public? The couple who won £161m last week have gone into hiding because of thousands of begging letters. What did they expect?! Do Camelot force them to go public?
Yup, I believe the fine print says that they can be used for publicity.
No they aren’t forced to go public they are just THICK. They seem to think they can win £161m, tell everyone about it and go on living in their 3 bedroom semi. Imagine if David Beckham lived in a council house in Peckham.
If I won £161 million I would still keep sending the begging letters.
Housing benefit cuts introduced by the Government are coming under challenge at the High Court.
Guido Fawkes has warned the changes could amount to “social cleansing” and force thousands of poorer people out of expensive areas, such as central London, and increase homelessness.
Today Guido Fawkes will ask a judge to rule the cuts unlawful.
Guido’s lawyers argue that the fundamental purpose of the national housing benefit scheme is to prevent homelessness.
They contend making a large area of London no longer accessible to housing benefit claimants in the private rented sector is contrary to what Parliament intended.
They will tell Mr Justice Supperstone in a two-day hearing at London’s High Court the Government has failed to have due regard to equality legislation
If they win does that mean we all have the right to live in a 4 bedroom town house in Cheyne Walk paid for by the taxpayer?
Was it out, Billy?
Yep, Hitting top of leg/middle.
First wicket down, cook LBW ZKhan.
Operation Motorman was the name given to the army evevts that became Bloody Sunday.
History repeating itself?
Does the timing at Mirror implicate Alastair Campbell?