Rumour: Johann Hari Will Not Be Sacked
Word reaches Guido from someone who claims to be in the know – apparently Johann Hari won’t be sacked from the Indy. The statement will apparently be distributed simultaneously with Hari boarding a plane.
He is still set to lose the Orwell Prize after the committee unanimously voted to strip him of the award but delayed the announcement until after the Indy had completed their inquiry.
At this moment he must stress this is a rumour, but Guido is wondering where Johann might be off to…
Presumably not Dubai again…
Told ya.
Resign
I was hoping he’d get buggered for this.
Resign Billy
What? Another non-story? *Waves at the adverts*
I get all the “news”, in three minutes flat, from The Wright Stuff.
I’m a genius, don’t cha know…
is that why you’re heading for LaLa land again Hari ?
So was he! …. SO am I!
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well at last the reluctance to issue a definitive statement about running has some possible reasoning behind it …if she was waiting for the release date of the book and the apparent relevations therein she has to decide if she can stand the heat…oh what a pleasure to see the birdbrain moose hit the buffers
Flying tonight
*claps*
‘Plain: or you wan’ 747 wi’ tha’?’
Of course had this been a right winger then polly and her left wing comrades would be shout how disgusting and unethical this is.
Hari/Rose will go for 12 months rehabiltation and treatment then make a low key return.
You did not even go for a day after being caught lying yesterday
Anony Mong – you are getting on my tits
please stop filling this blog up with your sad, pointless, bullying drivel
Rip him a new arsehole, Splooge – his old one is split.
6 months before he’s back on the BBC.
Hopefully he is going to Helmand to continue his career in lying and disinformation hopefully to the Taliban.
Would love to see how sales of the Independent change when this is made public.
If only.
He’s just a fat poof.
If his David Rose alter ego was working from the Independent’s offices (as he was, the IP address proves it) could the Independent be sued by those he libelled?
No
I’m leaving on a jet plane.
I don’t know when I’ll be back again.
Disgusting little faggot, why not Marrakesh like Fondlebum of Mandleboy.
So if you’re a Lefty, what does it actually take to be sacked?
Industrial-scale fabrication of quotes and events … OK
Stalking rival journalists… OK
Lying to the management about fabrication and stalking … OK
Teaching Evolution
Supporting Christianity.
Attacking political correctness.
Telling the Truthe.
Become right wing?
Another case of Leftie Depression?
a large tube of KY and an accomodating posture ?
Why on earth would this journalist be given the sack for telling lies, given he is on the payroll of the Independent, sister to the Guardian, those well respected oracles of the truth (ahem).
fair point, well made
What normally happens when Guido predicts someone won’t be sacked?
plus ca change?
A.) They become a member of the House of Lords
B.) They are appointed chairman (person) of a select committee
C.) They get a go on celebrity come dancing, X-factor or big brother
(Ofsted exam question and multiple choice answers from O’ level paper on Politics and the People).
I don’t know, what normally happens when Guido predicts someone won’t be sacked?
Erm.. The Independent do a quick U -turn and sack him just to spite the blogger? “Yah boo, you were wrong Fawkes!”
Jimmy you moron. He’s reporting a rumour not announcing a prediction.
So he’s safe then? That is good news.
Back Topic.
Virendra Sharma, Labour Member of British Parliament, feels that the condition of the roads in Kerala could be improved with the help of British know-how. ( TOI)
I wonder who will be the Middle-man.
How about starting with our pot-holes.
And what about all the stuff that is either free or cheap in the devolved countries but either ridiculously expensive or unavailable in England? The ‘Union’ should withdraw from its pointless imperialist wars and giving billions in aid to despots across the globe, and spend some of the money on the people who worked for it in the first place.
Please ensure that your seats are in the upright position and your trays are folded away.
+1
Oh golly, he’s joined Quaintass as a trolly-dolly.
Apollo 13, mission control we have a problem.
Emission Control: we have had a problem.
He’s probably going away for a while to write some proper fiction.
The next Labour manifesto?
He’s had plenty of practice.
There’s plenty of space on a blank A4 sheet of paper.
Can the Indy even afford the severance pay – or whatever ditty they sing?
And back to the real news; following the failure of Minibland’s adenoid op which has caused him to sound like a soprano elf and safety inspector, I hear that George Osborne has decided against surgical treatment for his sneer removal. Apparently he is to invite Eric Pickles to dinner and watching him eat will make his jaw drop without surgery.
I’m more concerned why George keeps muttering ‘Louise’ ‘LOUISE’ every five minutes. Can anyone enlighten me please?
Well of course: he’s constantly reminding himself of a pre-Revolutionary Currency, the ‘Louis’, or ‘Louis d’Or’ – King Louis Xii, or something – but in those days the French could actually pronounce all their consonants.
What did you expect? Honour from the left?
He is caught lying, stealing, fabricating & manfacturing “the truth”.
In the eyes of the left wing the ends always justify the means.
He is just a reflection of the political class.
I’m a lefty and I think he’s scum. I don’t think I’m alone in that.
Whether he’s dismissed or not, he’ll have to serve the long punishment of having his journalism treated with great suspicion by most people. Rebuilding a reputation after this will take him a decade or so, and he’ll have to be absolutely squeaky-clean in his journalism all the time – every little transgression will be flagged up mercilessly.
Just thought that the obvious place for him to go and spread his vitriol with almost full impunity is the USA.
He could spend a year there on research and analysis covered by the Independent / BBC / Gruniard and then Hey Presto give his assessment of the forthcoming election via BBC et al – all very pro Obama of course.
We have got to give him a second chance.
Forgive and forget, eh?
Well he may not be sacked but the paper loses all credibility and Hari will probably be the only one reading it!
I thought he was the only one reading it.
hes certainly not the only comedian writing in it
That’s a treble-the reputation of the Indy,Whittam-Smith and Hari all trashed together.
It’s better to have no inquiry at all than an inside friendly whitewash.No-one believe a favorable result anyway.
RIP the Independent’s reputation if this is true. Even a fair proportion of lefties believe the little fantasist should be out on his ear.
My sources tell me his on his way to Libya to interview the legendary Lyin of the Desert – Colonel Mohatma Gandalphi.
Exclusively for the Independent. And the Guardian. And The New Statesman. And Hare and Hounds.
Do not slur Hare and Hounds with this trivia.
The Field then.
Colonic Monthly surely for appropriate Hari content
33 “As I sat in his modest tent in the Desert, I was reminded of another time when I had been urged to turn aside – another Elder had, perhaps understandably, besought my company. I remember exactly what he said, ‘My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant.’. I own that, finding his very old-fashioned courtesy intriguing, I did just that – even allowing him to have his servants fetch water to wash my feet, while he got his wife to knead and bake great quantities of bread, while he himself went and killed a young calf.
‘Please, don’t make a fuss for me – but one thing is needful!’ I had urged. But… such is Desert hospitality. Hardly less so, had been my legendary meal with Caracalla (Oh, the songless Larks!). But now, here I was (again!) a recipient of the traditional, almost oppressive, generosity of a Nomad.
‘Phrrp.’, he said.
‘Pardon?, I jousted.
‘No! I must beg YOUR pardon (phrrphphrr)!’ His engaging broad smile was accompanied with a waving gesture.
I was reminded of my one and only – encounter is the word, rather than interview – with [to be continued in our next]
Guido, Could we have a list of union leaders annual renumeration.
Yeah
http://www.taxpayersalliance.com/home/2011/09/taxpayers-alliance-reveals-union-fat-cats.html
Why are he and the Indy not being prosecuted?
Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988, s107, piracy: they commercially copied other people’s stuff, without proper attribution. (in some cases from books, whose publishers were not acknowledged, in other cases from the copyrighted articles in *other newspapers*). To have a “news reporting” defence you have to attribute the people from whom you’re copying, which is logically incompatible with ripping off their interviews/books as Hari did.
You can go to jail for this.
Additionally, Hari passed off his work as real interviews rather than cut-n-paste, which is obtaining money by deception, another criminal offence. Can we crowd-fund a prosecution of them, please?
Should be sacked. And I am a Leftie.
By the way whats all this fuss about Osborne and drugs and prossies? Isn’t that what Tory boys do?
Its what quite a few young people do.
Prossies?
Really, tory family values for you
Come on, what young aldut hasnt been involved in Orgies at collage, smoking a bit of skunk, doing the odd line.
Its expermatation, part of growing, I would rather that than they go rioting.
I’d rather they went rioting than join the Labour Party – they do less damage that way.
Not sure, Being a Londoner we could do with a break from all the riots/protests etc for a while.
Yes I understand completely. I needed two weeks off after the riots.
Those plasma TVs are fucking heavy to be carting around, especially when the Filth are on your ass!
@ smoggie
Lol
I have never done a collage.
Namby pamby tory boy stuff, collages.
You need to resign – you lied
Student Bar not open yet, I see.
If I had the money… Fucking A !!
Disgusting.
How are you tory boys taking this banking stuff?
Still want your thick Eton chums to be paid squillions for ruining the economy?
Did Gordon go to Eton then?
Learn something new everyday.
Quite a few of the Labour Party did. And most of the Labour elite went to public school and/or send their kids there. This muppet thinks all Tories wear top hats.
I wish sometimes the left would take off the rose tinted glass and have a reasonable debate.
Stirring up stereotypical class hatred is all they have left.
True, I do pitty them tho, despite the best education that money can buy they seem to have been brainwashed into a failed ideaolegy.
Huh! Some of them can’t even spell “ideaolegy” Billy let alone understand it.
Are you a fucking schoolboy or what?
All these toffy tory boys like Osborne, Cameron and that fat clown in London never earned a day’s living in their nellie.
I see God has blessed you with an astute mind.
Thank you for your insight – I was blissfully unaware of this. In fact I have a sudden urge to join the Labour Party and right the wrongs of this oppressed country.
Where do I sign up?
Moscow ?
when you’re lying under the petitioner ?
Those who should be sacked are the civil servants, moaning about their pensions which I for one would be very happy to have, who intend to strike on Nov 30th. Sod Hari, time for Maggie!
Union big time loafers overpaid swanning around in luxurious appartments big chiefs should be exposed as the lefty scum they are.
Still want your thick Labour chums to queen it over the rest of us for ruining the economy (and raiding the hard won pennies of their own electorate for rigged elections?)
Up yours!
Union leaders earn tiddly squat compared to the yaw yaw tory bankers and the unearned income of Cameron and his like.
Parasites.
As trolls go, you are one of the most unoriginal ever assigned to this board. Must try harder. Now fuck off and let the grown ups get on with it.
Must have got him from a car boot sale. Worra wazzock!!
The key findings of this research are:
38 trade union general secretaries and chief executives received remuneration of more than £100,000 in 2010-11 (37 in 2009-10)
The total pay of the general secretaries and chief executives earning over £100,000 was nearly £5.2 million in 2010-11
Former joint General Secretary of Unite Derek Simpson received over £500,000, including severance pay of £310,000
Yeah, diddly squat.
Union leader scum. Wonder what their pensions are. We are all in it together comrades. Union leaders say to the members you go out on strike and I’ll keep earning. Ching ching.
And they say capitalists exploit the workers. Ha! What friggin irony.
And the stupid memberships are paying for this. And they know they are! Lemmings have more intelligence.
J.K. is negotiating terms with his agent with the view to have him star in “The Half-Blood Gobbler Philosopher and The Chamber Of Secrets.”
Ms. Rowling is penning the trilogy as I type under the working title “Hari: The Keele Years.”
Her next book is titled Hari Robber.
Why doesn’t Hague just come out and get it over with?
Same reason that Gordon hasnt.
Whit, Brown shared an hotel room with his same sex “advisor”?
Was there not a story a while back about two male Tory Mps sharing a hotel bed to save money?
Hope nobody farted
Get your facts right, numbnutz.
Only one was an MP.
He has never admitted to being an MP and has never told his wife.
We shit on the poor to make them poorer so they stay addicted to the Labour party*.
*In debt just like the country.
yep. If you educate them they’ll only think for themselves, get good jobs, make their own money and demand the government spends their taxes wisely. We don’t need to be making Tories.
Come out of what ?
Kristin Scott-Thomas has cracking jugs as seen on Daveja Vu
Two mosquito bites on her chest.
Guiod, re your arrticle referenced
I am a highly intelligent ext UN HIGH and ver HIGHER) Representaive in the Balkans
I was Leader of the Lib DEms and am their older statesmen
I always believed in Europa and still do
(like all those who wear sandals and shout slogans)
The only problem which I did not envisage is that Europa has collapsed
paddy, you were a courageous oficer,
Since then your pants have been down too often…not only physically but mentally
Enough said
Zurich would be a good destination. Dignitas is there.
Mr Guido, my Media Studies Professor told me to contact you
Please help me
My professors in Media Studies tell me that if I continue my studies for another thrreee years, I will get a job in and be sent to Dubai
I promise that I can read and write
Is it a realy Hell ? I am getting worried
I was told that they have oil pouring out of their veins (not exactly the word that my professors used but you know what they mean)
I would love a real answer from you
Gideon ben Moussa of that Ilk
I love your blog Guido
You all live in a completely surreal, spaced out world which I always predicted.
I was counting on (and still am) counting on the Western world becoming completely spaced out
To avoid their fiunding out that I was and am a lying frauding war criminal
is that why your aare being paid millions every year by çinvestment banks .
Is that why you and your old chief of staff are being paid millions every year by investment banks (like your side kick Madoff Mandelson and others)
Of course
I frauded the world for 12 years
Didn’t you notice ?
It must continue
I always prefered the work of your brother, Salvador.
Where are they getting these cretins from? Can’t we just force-feed them iodene?
wasn’t he savlon’s sister ?
Boss, I have some weird gringo called Hari who claims to be an amigo of our beloved Presidente, on a mission from someone called Huittamsmit. I am thinking he is as loco as a box of frogs – what should I do?
I’m off to interview Colonel Kurtz. He hasn’t spoken to anyone in decades and is said to have gone mad in the jungles of Vietnam.
Yes, I heard that , and you will find him sharing a village hut with Elvis Presley and Lord Lucan. Could you take Ed Miliband and the union leaders with you.
Oh there’s that giant chicken, got to go.
I love the smell of lip balm in the morning
I’ve always thought Prep H smelt a bit strange Bill…but each to his own your MP’ness
Unions do not, and will not get the support of the public.
You’re going to have to do a lot better than that Hari.
Naughty naughty! Fuzz who shot me had never used the device before, other taser shotgun bloke hadn’t used it before either! Shouldn’t have been issued for use in the UK at all.
Didn’t some taser inventor bloke top himself too?
You were a thick, violent, parasitic, self-pitying slob who deserved everything he got.
I second that opinion, and im a professor so I know about these sorts of things.
Had the police shot Moat out of unauthorised trebuchet i would still approve of their actions.
Instead they did what they could to take him alive.
I’ve always thought it was a complete coincidence that he happened to die during the police action …probably from a congenital defect he had had since birth…that taser nip was not much more than a couple of triple A batteries was it ?
Shocking.
I really wouldn’t have expected anything less of the indy.
head in sand is such a leftwing principal.
Heads in the sand isn’t a leftie principle, it’s an stupidity/ignorance principle. If that’s a big problem for you then Guido’s site won’t be your thing because he does it too. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy the old tart’s blog but anyone saying in the last few months, as he has, that “unemployment has peaked” is either stupid or ignorant.
If only Hari could turn back time.
If he could find a way. Could make the lyrics to a song.
So it wasn’t right that Coulson was given a second chance, but it’s o.k. for Hari. It makes you think the media is hypocritical.
What’s that you say? Hari is going to be downing Street’s press supremo? That is what you’re saying, isn’t it?
No mate. You’ll have to postpone that orgasm.
I think it was wrong of the Independent to reinstate Hari at a time when negotiations with the Orwell people was still going on. I think the Independent has acted in a reckless and provocative way.Both sides should ignore the rhetoric and get around the negotiating table..
Former tory Peer re-arrested?
Rumour
just heard it on the BBC. To do with his time as a council fiddler.
An elderly couple go into a snack bar and order one hamburger and one portion of chips. When they’ve been served, they sit down and carefully divide the food into two equal portions.
A young man takes pity on them and offers to buy another meal for the old lady.
“No, thank you,” says her husband, chewing, “we share everything.”
Not discouraged by this and seeing that the old lady has not yet eaten a single morsel, the young man once again offers to buy her a meal.
“She’ll eat,” says the husband, his mouth full of chips, “we share everything.”
“Then why haven’t you eaten anything yet?” asks the young man insistently.
The old lady turns towards him, visibly irritated: “Because I’m waiting for the fucking teeth.”
shame the old ones aren’t funny the fiftieth time round billy