Guardian Phonehacker David Leigh Above the Law
The Guardian’s in-house phone hacker David Leigh will not be prosecuted, despite admitting in 2006 “I, too, once listened to the mobile phone messages”, writing about how hacking voicemails gave him a “voyeuristic thrill in hearing another person’s private messages”. Last summer Guido caught Leigh telling bare-faced lies about his phone hacking past, the details of which he shared with his journalism students. Incidentally Guido couldn’t find Salmond’s allegations that the Observer hacked his bank account in the in-depth coverage of the scandal in this morning’s paper. Move along people…
Please stop posting this junk.
No
David Leigh is just another totally gormless non entity
good to listen to again, thanks
What is truth?
Not False.
Ah! Someone has read Popper. We can only prove falsity though. So we are back with the same question of Socrates and his age.
What constitutes truth?
What things are truthbearers, capable of being true or false?
How can truth be defined and identified?
What part in truth do revealed and acquired knowledge play?
Is truth subjective or objective; relative or absolute?
The best we can manage in three thousand years of thought is that we can’t define it but we know what it is when we see it.
Unfortunately our enemies invert the same argument.
It would seem that for many people in politics, the truth is what you want it to be, or perhaps, what you can get away with.
Or in Law: how you can construct an argument according to an (incomplete) set of rules.
Or in Physics: how you can create a theory that no one will ever be able to test.
Or in Banking: how you can keep your profits and get the state to underwrite your losses.
Or in the Civil Service: what keeps your job and pension maximised.
You may even have some tales to tell from the world of Engineering, in fact I am sure.
Oddly enough, CRMM, engineering is one of those fields in which you can’t buck the truth without getting bitten. A particular design will work to a known limit, and if you push beyond that limit, something will fail – the laws of physics and the nature of materials dictate so.
The human aspects of engineering endeavour, however, are as prone to the weaknesses of human nature as any other walk of life.
At the risk of repetition, I would cite the old example of the use of a slide rule to divide 4 by 2.
The Mathematician and the Engineer both got the same result, 1.999 but the Engineer said 2 is close enough.
Or in big business, show business and the BBC – whatever money can buy.
Engineer is spot on – I offer up Concordski as proof. Russia denied they had stolen the designs – but they had stolen the data as the West (UK and France) had allowed them to, and had put dangerously incorrect data in it. See Paris Air Show – Concordski on youtube if you need to.
The truth, in engineering, has teeth for the unwary!
Try Venn diagrams.
Actually not (read Popper). I did study formal logic at Uni though.
Andy Murray will never win a Wimbledon final.
iSlam above the law.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9330328/Child-grooming-scandals-only-tip-of-the-iceberg-says-Government-minister.html
Were large scale P4k1st4ni sex crimes covered up by the Labour regime?
Yes, for votes.
Until George Galloway changed religion and pissed on their fireworks.
Whose law?
I fink it’s called Sharon’s law, yeah? It means dat if you die, right, for yer religon an that, you get 75 slags called Sharon in ‘eaven.
You’ll never believe ‘oo I ‘ad in the back of my cab de uver day, right……
Back in the day it used to be 72.
This blasted inflation gets everywhere dunnit?
What has happened to the well-known, iconic, world-famous header to this, the most popular political blog in the Universe? Don’t tell me …. the intern got loose with a felt-tip pen and a primary school reader. Good Grief!
Looks as if Rich and Mark got bored with flicking balls of wet tissue paper at each other with their rulers.
Guido has gone for the snip.
We don’t talk about this. Just the same way that for 13 glorious new labour years the relationship between the press and government wasn’t an issue. But it is now. And it will be every day until we are able to live under new labour’s benevolent rule once more.
And its not just the BBC – all the newspapers seem very selective in only reporting matters relating to Murdoch papers
The law on phone hacking etc only applies to employees of News International/News Corp…
ohh ducky!
The whole issue has become one big deafening round of axe-grinding – Labour politicians, BBC, newspaper competitors of NI, even Metropolitan Plod, to some extent.
This is one issue in which you have no option but to draw your own conclusions.
I don’t subscribe to Sky and never have, I don’t read Murdoch newspapers and never have (though have no particular beef with any of them), but I find myself leaning more and more to sympathy for Murdoch and his businesses, just because of the concerted unfair attacks by vested interests that he’s sustaining.
I bought Telegraph for >30 years – but gave up on them last year because of their coverage (trouble is I can’t do the Times x-word)
I think I can get you the compilers’ voicemail password, if that helps? Oops!
Study the answers as they come the following day and you will gradually get into the heads of those who do the compiling. I am not spectacularly clever, but over time I managed to complete their puzzles on most days (unless there was some obscure literary reference included, which always got me as I am not particularly well-read). However, I gave up reading it 10 or more years ago.
Murdoch over extended his empire in the late eighties and was told to be more sensible or his company was going to go out of business.
Robert Maxwell was told something similar.
Anne Robinson wrote that Maxwell was her hero because he saved The Mirror after he went glug glug glugging in the big salty wet place.
That is why Maxwell is a hero to media luvvies.
You couldn’t write a story making it up. Who selects who will be prosecuted?
Keir Starmer, head of the CPS. Like all parts of the public sector, the CPS is blatantly partisan these days. Why do you think Huhne’s case has taken so long to proceed? And what about Maggot Moran being allowed to claim that the stress made her unfit to face the music in court?
Good luck with the sale of the blog, Guido. May your pockets bulge and your waistline shrink. Don’t forget your alma mater in Harrow Weald when you start throwing your well-gotten gains about. Re-branding …. Meeja Guido …. Jesus wept (oops, sorry, Mother Superior).
Cunning stunts.
Dave is quite shallow really. He’s not much of a deep thinker.
But what happens to the deep thinkers in politics?
Keith Joseph: Arguably the brightest ever.
Enoch Powell: Close contender.
Two brains Willetts: They keep him in a back room.
Gissa job FFS !!
The Guardian doesn’t cover Alex Salmond’s allegations, instead they unleashed Steve Bell to mock him with a cartoon.
They don’t like it up ‘em.
Don’t tell me. The cartoon’s anything but funny. The Failygraph might be mediocre, but Matt’s cartoons are usually good value, unlike the Guardian’s attempts at ‘humour’.
But what their sister paper did which was not wrong as it is the gardian’s sister paper did was in 1999 before this type of thing was done.
The man who invented the strimmer should be crucified.
OT, but I live out in the country.
Beware of dog shit. Never strim with your mouth open.
And high speed snails.
Time to get your rip and do a bit of shaving off of his little nylon strings, his petrol pipe, – and his carb could do with a bit of good honest British earth too!
You must have a reason for saying that. Would you like to share it with us?
Hey you jolly chaps! – no sweat, no fret, – we’re all one big party now! – just keep the punters happy with a bit of wrangling – and watch the lolly roll in!!
And my jolly chum Joules says Mr Barista wants more Wind Farms – jollydee! Wattage!! Ampage!! Overflowing Bank qccountage!!! ha ha ah ahahahhhaa!
“a” is below “q” – try using both hands to type, instead of wanking yourself dyslexic over how funny you really aren’t.
My old man’s a dustman.
♫♪ And he’s bought his council flat ♫♪
Have read david leighs crap and that all it is crap. But he does have a face that you would like to punch
Sanctimonious, self-righteous Guardian journalist HYPOCRITE SHOCKER. Not.
Kier Starmer, boss of the CPS would never prosecute any member of the rag known as the Guardian. His first name should be a good clue as to how he votes.
SNP ??
We rummaged through people’s bins back in ’90′s as Piers Moron had yet to show us how to hack the phone properly. Now we are going back to rummaging through bins again.