I’m a Lord Justice Get Me Out of Here!
As the Spectator reported yesterday, Brian Leveson is off to Australia on a speaking tour as soon as his report is published next Thursday. Ben Webster in the Times has more detail:
Lord Justice Leveson is to fly to Australia on an expenses-paid trip within days of delivering his recommendations on the future of press regulation. The judge has accepted invitations to speak on “Privacy in the 21st century” in Sydney on December 7 and on “News Gathering in a Time of Change” in Melbourne on December 12. He is expected to be accompanied on the trip by his wife.
Now we know why the good Lord will be refusing any questions next week. He’s saving himself for punters paying £620 a head to hear his views. On media ethics…
Bastard!
Not worth every penny spent.
FFS
Snout and trough…. so no change !!
i dona know why you ffs’d my comment, and no I is not jealous
and a devout Israel firster, not that his religion would dictate what the stupid Goy should be told.
Very very funny but you must get over your homoerotic fascination with Geo. Osborne
No we know why !!!!
Better.
Presumably as he only got the lecture tour off the back of his Kangaroo Court into the Murdochs he will be rebating some of his enquiry fees with those he gets from Australia?
Correct. The Gillard administration (how coincidental!) is also looking into ways to muzzle the free press (read mostly Murdoch press). Doubtless for a fat fee Leveson will happy to given them the benefit of his
stupiditycupidity.is the good lord related to mr tone?
Lord L, of all people, goes to Aussie, of all places, to give lectures on the Murdochs, of all subjects, just as the Leveson Report, of all things, is released, whereupon he will be in demand by the Oz media following up on it, who are ready to bust Rupert’s chops, and Brian will then undoubtedly be hailed as a hero in America by the MSNBC crowd for bearding the lion in his den, and he will then be in demand for appe*arances in the US as well.
There are no coincidences.
For the “Kangaroo” court recently held in London, Dame Edna would have made a more charismatic chair[person].
And would have added considerably more gravitas.
As John Prescott announced on this very website yesterday, Labour has announced its new initiative, the Age of Chancers. I for one will be fully doing my bit by skimming off the top wherever I can.
Can I join you as well, Brian?
My bloody organisation is collapsing beneath my feet as well…
We might establish a new colocy in Strine don’t you think?
They are getting very rich on the back of the Chinese I am told…
And just what exactly was wrong with the old colocy?
The good judge is just another well fed member of the elite, the neo-nomenklatura who relish the possibility of gagging the press.
Thankfully we have this place & many other online places of free expression, truth & refuge – we are the resistance & we will not be silenced.
Hear Hear
His Lordship posts a giant steaming turd through the letter box of No10 on his way to the airport ?
£620:00 a ticket very fucking moral?
Thats 9 weeks wages for me.!!!!!
Poor bloke – 9 weeks wages – shoulda studied harder at school. Some people I meet are in low wage jobs cos they mucked about at school. Who’s having the last laugh now?
Muckers or nerds who knuckle down and study, work and play hard.
On thread: Leveson’s report should stand on its own – explain everything that is immoral about our devious media and what the remedy should be.
Pensioner perhaps?
No benefits a cripple I am a cripple and not allowed to work.
Your original post said
“£620:00 a ticket very fucking moral?
Thats 9 weeks wages for me.!!!!!”
You should have said
“£620:00 a ticket very fucking moral?
Thats 9 weeks benefits for me.!!!!!”
I assumed you were a working Briton.
I think you mean days?
Who in their right mind would pay £620 to listen to drivel? They must be on a jolly funded by taxpayers.
Can somebody please tell me where I can get a First Class (or even Business Class) return to Sydney for 620 quid? I went to Perth recently and even the cheapest off season Cattle class fare was over 800 smackers. And that was with one of the cheaper airlines.
‘He is expected to be accompanied on the trip by his wife.’
WTF is he not sure? Has he tried asking her?
Never mind that.
Why is he not expected to pay for his wife’s trip?
That’s what I want to know.
If the organiser’s choose to pay for Levenson’s wife’s trip that is entirely up to them. It is very common for conference organisers to offer to pay spouse’s expenses as an inducement for the potential speaker to accept the invitation to speak.
The wife of Brian
My dear Guido
What would you expect?
I have just conducted a very high profile inquiry
I am a celebrity
And We all got paid a fortune
So I am off to cash in on all of this while the bling lasts
PS I am sorry that my old Murdoch friends are being unfriendly. I liked going to their concktail parties as well…
Can I join you Brian?
I am in the middle of a local political difficulty here
I need to get away from Cicciolina just as our friend Tone does from Slotgob…
Are you travelling first class. If so John says I can go in his place *gulps*
Hah, so you do swallow then Sally!
Don’t we all Mr Nemo. What on earth do you mean? *gulps*
Concktail parties???
Surely. To read
Bonktail parties n est pas ??
His wife may make a better speaker.
Hope his doesn’t use a any of Ken Dodd’s jokes.
He does try, but poor delivery means that ‘tickling stick’ comes out as ‘stickling prick’.
Ethics? Ethics in the media? Fairies? Goblins?
All just fantasies from someone’s crazed delusions.
Hello Eddy
Will you appoint me Chairman of the Ethics Committee of the Labour Party?
It will help me get filthy rich on dodgy influence peddling you see?
Bankers believe I am highly ethical so why not you?
Ethics? It’s a county like Suthics.
Unlike Wethics which does not exist (at the moment anyway).
Will “Mr Jay” being going as well
Just to carry the bags?
Or does he have to stay behind to ensure income for Mrs Empty Ed Millitunes?
Remember when Murdoch Junior said that answering a particular question was above his paygrade and Brian, with a knowing smirk to Mr J, said “mine too”.
Perhaps Bri’s been reflecting on the injustice of it.
Just covering his backside for when, following publication of the Report, the dooda hits the whatsit. Lots of fun and games ahead folks, so get our popcorn in early.
You say that punters are paying £620 a head to hear him. But are they paying any of that to him?
I rather doubt it.
This has nothing to do with my inquiry role
It is just on the same subject by complete coincidence
Leveson will see very little of that money. He will get his (and probably his wife’s) expenses reimbursed but will be paid a nominal fee for the speeches. I know from experience that is the case for senior academics. I’m sure that it is the same for judges when still in office.
It will be a different matter when he retires because can then capitalise on his ‘celebrity’.
“[W]hen he retires…”
I’m sure you are referring to my retirement from the Bench. I don’t stop being a QC just because I’m not a judge anymore. And as long as I don’t represent a client who had any business before me in the past, where there might be a question as to my impartiality in that proceeding, I shouldn’t have a problem.
Public service is all well and fine and to be commended, but a lad’s got to accumulate some money for his old age; I’m only 63, for heaven’s sake! Still in my prime! Don’t write me off just yet!
We trust you will be using your OAP bus pass to get to the airport.
Thank fuck we can get off the topic of abused kids at the BBC.
How’s about that then guys and gals
Just like the new boss of al-beeb, jobs for the boys, no change pay your taxes little plebs and mind your own business, your not intelligent enough to understand.
“Another useful plot is the false accusation. First, create a situation where you are falsely accused. Then, at a convenient moment, arrange for the false accusation to be shown to be false beyond all doubt… Further accusations will then be treated with great suspicion.”
pg 176, The New Machiavelli (2000)
Author: Alistair McAlpine
Find it on Amazon.co.uk
Governments have been doing it for years.
It’s worked a treat so far.
Now THAT is an interesting find…
Are there any judges left to hear my cases?
Much of the judiciary these days appear to be ‘left’ rather than independent,.
Are there any judges left to hear our cases?
We like good cheap English justice to launder our billions
Our heavies will chain this Judge to his pulpit
How may we help?
Amyone put an approximate total on the cost of inquiries in the last ten years?
Have we hit £1billion yet?
Cant we bring the Blue Peter totaliser out of storage
A judge led enquiry will work out the cost for you. Eventually
Perhaps, as with other celebrity TV shows, the format of The Leveson Inquiry is to be sold to broadcasters around the world, starting with the Australians.
Just wondering if he will be keeping his earnings from talking about the Inquiry ? After all it is publicly funded…… ?
Brian’s just an old media tart
the Australians have already had their own learned Elder doing a report into the media
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100141570/why-i-owe-aussie-qc-raymond-finkelstein-a-pint/
“Today’s column is dedicated to Raymond Finkelstein QC. Raymond who? Well, he’s the kind of left-leaning activist lawyer I’d normally run a mile from – especially since he’s behind a scary new report which, if implemented, will kill what’s left of freedom of speech in Australia and pretty much criminalise climate scepticism.
…
Raymond – or Pinkie Finkie, as I’m sure he’d preferred it if I called him, because the Aussies do love a bit of informality, don’t they? – has produced a report on media regulation in Australia so terrifyingly authoritarian it makes the Leveson Enquiry look like a model of balance, sanity and restraint.”
Any bets Finkie was not born is Oz. They don’t suffer idiots lightly down under. He had better watch out he does not find a sheep’s head in his bed one day!
*in, not is.
It never ends does it. We actually fall for it time and again that we might get just one piece of activity from our so called elite that is not driven by self centred greed and even the enquiry into one part of it is tainted before the report is issued. Westminster must reek of corruption and it is about time that we had the ghost of Cromwell return to rid us of their kind.
Does Cromwell have any living descendents perchance?
Has he nodded off?
So who is paying for Leveson’s expenses-paid trip?
I hope to fuck it isn’t me, I think he’s a karnt.
Very ethical of M’Lord?
Ker-Ching!
GF – the pig’s nose logo is missing from Leveson’s nose. Oy vey!
A dab of press control by statute is a dab of cyanide … as Brian knows …
… preparing to scuttle off down under ? … rather than face the music … the ethics are very century 21.