Yet another Piers Morgan phone-hacking implication has surfaced from his own misguided boasts. Writing in the Daily Mail in 2006 when Sir Paul McCartney split from Heather Mills, Morgan went into some extremely voyeuristic detail about their relationship:

“Stories soon emerged that the marriage was in trouble – at one stage I was played a tape of a message Paul had left for Heather on her mobile phone. It was heartbreaking. The couple had clearly had a tiff, Heather had fled to India, and Paul was pleading with her to come back. He sounded lonely, miserable and desperate, and even sang ‘We Can Work It Out’…”

Who played it to Piers? How did they get it? Did he procure the illegal interception of an electronic communication – an imprisonable offence – with a maximum two-year stretch on conviction?  Looks like it to Guido.

How can Piers say he never authorised phone-hacking when he admits to listening to recordings of the voicemail of a distressed old man and his soon to be ex-wife? How can Piers say he never published anything on the back of phone hacking when he regaled this very story to the world in print under his own byline? Where was the public interest here?

It gets worse, Guido has been told Morgan played the recording out loud to the newsroom for fun. Laughing and mocking Macca’s misery.

In fact this is prima facie evidence of criminality on the part of Piers Morgan. We’re taking our dossier to the Metropolitan Police. Time for Piers Morgan to get a lawyer…

As one slippery fish goes to ground, another is forced out into the open. Guido hears that Essex Police believe that they have enough to charge sitting Secretary of State for Energy, Chris Huhne over the conspiracy to cover up his driving crimes, that dragged his entire family into the saga. He’s a nice guy…

Downing Street is ready for him to walk, but due to his high-profile status, the Crown Prosecution Service will decide if he is charged. Though they might want to take into account whether they want to jail an ordinary citizen for the same crime ever again before they think about dropping the whole thing…

The Electoral Commission have found some irregulatrities between what Chris Huhne declared in his election expenses as “national spending” and what the national Liberal Democrats actually declared. The bad news is for Cowley Street as there is clearly some serious concern over at the Electoral Commission that this practice goes beyond Huhne’s tight marginal constituency:

“The Commission have written to the Liberal Democrat national party asking them to review their procedures and report back to the Commission measures they will implement to avoid a repeat of this in future.”

Which begs the question, how many more LibDem associations do the Electoral Commission suspect are up to these tricks?

UPDATE:

http://twitter.com/#!/MichaelLCrick/status/96185758318215168

Discuss.

Piers Morgan discusses the downfall of Coulson and Clive Goodman in 2007:

“As for Clive Goodman, I feel a lot of sympathy for a man who has been the convenient fall guy for an investigative practice that everyone knows was going on at almost every paper in Fleet Street for years,” 

Well it looks like CNN’s Piers Morgan is rather rattled this morning. Instead of addressing his vocal and written confessions that he published hacked stories, Morgan went for the man rather than the ball.

Guido didn’t expect anything less…

One thing that did tickle though, was how quickly Morgan was to use the magazine Private Eye to try to head off some of the shit-storm that he is currently at the centre of. Lets see what he said the them in his now infamous Desert Island Discs appearance:

“Private Eye is one of the most intrusive and inaccurate newspapers in the country…”

Guido is still waiting for an answer to why Morgan wrote in the Mail that he published a story that was hacked, yet told CNN he had never done so. Maybe it’s time to take to the airwaves again Piers…

Ken Livingstone’s former aide Lee Jasper left his post after emails linked him to the dodgy use of City Hall funds. Anyone that dared question him about this was slammed as for being racist. He is the eternal victim, but seems to be in the midst of a full on breakdown on Twitter. Ken has already run a mile.

It started on Monday with a sick joke about Boris and the Norwegian murders, but it seems our old friend has been on a downward spiral of decline ever since. Remember that he is an equalities activist and “Chair of London Race & Criminal Justice Consortium” when you take a look at a selection of his tweets from the last twenty-four hours:

• “White men are obsessed with black mens ****s.”
• “Disabled or black we are all the undeserving poor as the ideological attack on the poor is prosecuted with zeal . Disablism and racism.”
• “White boy hysteria once again reveals its penchant for the overly dramatic when it comes to black men
• “I know you white boys have a thing about black men’s tackle”
• “Anyway racist pedophiles, NI acolytes , assorted miscreants of the wretched right wing I must go and ferment racial harmony among the masses”
• ” Well you would having pedophile tendencies an all…”
• “Good sit back whilst I give you a very unhappy ending”

Our esteemed friend went on to tweet that he wants “equality and harmony”. When Red Ken abandons you, you know you’ve crossed a line…