Review of 2012: Guido v Leveson
2012 was very much the year Brian Leveson enjoyed his fifteen minutes of fame, spending £5 million of taxpayers’ money to change, well, nothing, leaving nobody’s favourite Lord Justice free to jet off into the Australian sunset. Leveson couldn’t get enough of Guido in February, though it is fair to say both he and the Information Commissioner less than appreciated this blog exclusively publishing the Operation Motorman Blue Book later on in the spring. An establishment cover-up of hundreds of crimes committed by journalists was revealed, and Brian went bonkers…
The Leveson effect meant no British media outlet would run the naked photos of Prince Harry that emerged overnight from Vegas during the summer, fortunately for readers of this blog Guido didn’t care what Leveson thought. When Kate Middleton’s topless snaps found their way onto the internet Guido let the public decide whether or not to publish, you chose to spare the Duchess of Cambridge’s dignity. It didn’t hurt traffic though…
When it came down to it, Dave decided that Leveson’s demand for statutory regulation of the press was a step – to the seventeenth century – too far. There was a bashing for Piers though. As we enter 2013 Brian is gone yet not quite forgotten…
You should put that on a T-shirt.
Riding around in my Range Rover Evoque
Looking for young girls to pick up and poke
Instead of “Poke” why not try “Poque”?
Da!
Don’t forget the non release of the Chilcott report
The Leveson farce was a joke ( an expensive one at that) , Leveson told us what we all knew anyway and his proposals, well, Ed supported them, nuff said.
Tho If implemented it will just make bloggers and internet stronger than press.
Happy New Year all
Stap me, and curses to such curs as you 8illy. It won’t be so easy next time though.
I was surprised it was in his contract that he could b**ger off to OZ, the day after the report was published.I think he now lacks credibility.
The powerful are closing ranks with Labour leading the charge to regulate and dictate what we can read.
To try and control what we think. Perhaps they see the evil BBC withering in it’s “nudging” of the U.K. populace’s id.
We represent our client Poundland. Please cease and desist with your one pound fish.
Poundland must be abolished. Euroland sounds much better.
We have all been brainwashed by the BBC. It is called social conditioning. Just look at the dynamic females and wimpy men in the Archers for example or the lefty rantings of Sandi Toxic. With 50% of the total UK news reach the BBC have the power to manipulate the attitudes of the whole nation. So they do exactly this with their politically correct liberal/leftie world view.
They damage the UK just as much as labour, the unions or the freemasons do.
Watch it. I’m a freemason. Boaz.
Just been listening to R4 “UK Confidential” about the release of government papers under the thirty year rule, covering the Falklands War and Savile’s dealings with the Tories.
The BBC come out of it as clean as a whistle with no mention of broadcasting militarily sensitive information on the World Service which cost many British lives and could have changed the outcome of the war.
And apparently, Savile was a great friend of Maggie Thatcher and the BBC hardly even knew who he was.
Brian who?
I’m Brian and so is my wife.
Leveson was useful for it showed us just how fast Ed Miliband’s knee jerks. His instinctive reaction is to put state control ahead of liberty.
He’s just one big jerk.
Labour have been taking away our rights and been giving them to the state since 1945. We need a mass repeal of legislation to restore our rights.
What right do the government have to snoop on me and retain data about me, for instance?
I promised to do just that .. but when it came to the bit, I did fuck all
Can someone start a petition to deport Ed Mililonaireband?
Does anybody really think he will be leader of labour at the next election ?
No, they will install Al House-flipper Darling, who will be riding high after seeing off the Salmond independence nonsense.
http://bluecollartories.wordpress.com/2012/12/27/the-truth/
I’ll be back
Stormin Norman Schwarzkopf dead. How long before George Bush Sr croaks too?
Mandela, Bush, Thatcher, QE2, Phil the Greek, Chavez, Mugabe….
We might have the full set by this time next year!
and your point is?
Will Bliar be one?
Nor, nor-west last time I checked. Why do you need to know?
Place your bets !
http://www.deathlist.net/
where my post gone again ?
Place your bets !
http://www.deathlist.net/
Well done Mr Fawkes for exposing that blabber mouth obnoxios twat , Twatson
BBC wetting themselves – Thatcher unprepared for Falklands War and Savile’s letters to Thatcher revealed.
It was Fatcha wot done it
Those photographs are disgusting.
The BBC is the biggest platform for celebrity self promotion. Radio shows, Chat shows, news programmes are just full of celebs talking about their new book/record/film.
Steve Wright; I am not fucking interested that Alan Partridge has a new show, just play the fucking music.
Suzanna Reid; I don’t give a shit about JK Rowling’s shitty new book, just tell me how shit the weather is.
Graham Norton; Hugh Grant is a one trick pony – I don’t need to hear about his latest film where he plays an upper class twit with foppish hair.
The BBC should charge fuckwits to come onto their programmes to promote their products
They probably do – through the back door.
It’s the unique way they are funded.
No need to charge – just make them travel to Salford without expenses
It’s called public service broadcasting but should be called public relations broadcasting with all these “celebs” using our airwaves to tout their goods.
I work for a large and well-known retailer but don’t think the BBC would give us free time to promote the special offers and new services.
Pesto’s house was broken into and his late wife’s ring was taken. All very sad etc and he tweeted about it – the result being that the story was all over the BBC. Will they be reporting on every break in, or do you have to work for the BBC?
Peston is a common purpose stooge.
http://www.commonpurpose.org.uk/news/videos/regulation-robert-peston
@Rat Attack
“I work for a large and well-known retailer but don’t think the BBC would give us free time to promote the special offers and new services.”
Not unless your firm is supporting the BBC’s war on Murdoch.
I really dislike Coogan,Rowling, Grant and all the other attention seekers who whinged to Brian, now ,and will avoid anything they do. They have all made first class pratts of themselves for nothing.
I wonder, if the recommendations of Leverson had been implemented before the phone hacking saga, would it have actually prevented it?
Could a journalist, needing a story to save their career, really resist a way of getting supposedly secret information from supposed celebrities?
I very much doubt it.
A passage from a book wot i read,describing the church in Rome in
1200A.D,applicable to many institutions of today..”A monstrously demonic fraud
hoisted on Christians of goodwill by a cabal of ruthless voluptuaries enslaved to the pleasures of the flesh and the appetite for gain.”
Cui bono…..For whose advantage is it?…..
We will decide what you can read, watch and think.
Letter by Jimmy Savile reveal he was a big fan of Thatcher. He wrote “all my girl patients love you. I do too!”
Tony Blair loves Thatcher too.
He loved the way Thatcher sorted out the unions. No doubt in time some arsehole Labour leader will love Cameron for sorting out the national debt, education and welfare.
So do we. There is going to be a bronze statue of her in Toxteth.
Then it is going to be slowly melted down – long and lingering.
Under what qualification did this person have the right to be in possession of girl patients?
our 3D world is about power, sex, food and money.
nothing for the soul in this.
:yawn:
A foto too far Guido. If we wished to search for it we would.
Why not unearth your own country’s sins. Start with Haughy and move either forwards or backwards: You’se bog-trotters are known criminals and ass-wipes!
Oh, Ein glückliches neues Jahr from Fuhrer Merkel (paddy-slaves’ master)…!
After 20 years, I met an ex in the street. “Hello Sue,” I said, “Wow, it’s been a while. How are you doing these days?”
“Pretty well.” she said. “After my degree I went into law and I’m a partner now. Anyway, nice to see you.” she said walking off.
Still full of herself, I thought. Never asked how I was doing, or bought a Big Issue.
Charles Durning, Jack Klugman, Gerry Anderson, Norman Schwarzkopf, Fontella Bass, all die in the space of a few days. At this rate, with Bush in intensive care and Mandela and Thatcher recently in hospital, maybe the year will close with 3 big political deaths.
Who said there are no great thinkers left any more ?
Charles Durning, Jack Klugman and Fontella Bass mean nothing to me. I expect they are American. There is someone who keeps coming on here making Yankee cultural references and expecting everyone to genuflect to them.
I will notunduly mourn the passing of Bush or Mandela either: Bush was a mediocre president and Mandela, while a good enough fellow, was blown up out of all proportion during his lifetime into a personality cult – who served as a figleaf for an intellectually bankrupt one-party state. His wife was a nasty piece of work.
he should have been blown up while he was throwing bobs around in Jo’burg. The original African Bin Liner.
* bombs (of course)
As a wise man pointed out, Mandela is a good example that prison works. Got 27 years and has not re-offended since.
She still is actually.
As for Mandela, well he is judged by different standards of course. He was a terrorist, but being a black one makes him a hero when he stops being a terrorist and we all love him because he didn’t try and kill all the white boys who handed the country over.
Bush was mediocre but Maggie, well. That was a woman for her time and she had huge domestic and international impact. It’s quite funny how when the liberal/left witter on about feminism and what a better more caring world it would be if women were in charge don’t really have Mrs. T in mind, or Golda Meir or Xtina Fernando Kirchner or Angela or Indira or indeed any woman who has actually held power.
Now we are all supposed to be optimistically looking forward to Bill Clinton’s 5th term in the form of the odious Hillary. Blurgh!
You never got up North much, did you? Wigan Casino? Blackpool Mecca?
Twisted Wheel..
For some of us Brian will never be forgotten.
Not sure whether the same could be said for Dougal, Zebedee, Florence and Ermintrude.
or Dylan – don’t forget Dylan.
Guido takes a page out of the book of the Duke of Wellington, who was “offered an opportunity” to keep his name out of a kiss-and-tell book by a courtesan (i.e, a solicitation of a bribe, as opposed to out-and-out extortion); Lord Wellie’s response? “Publish, and be damned!” (Of course, the publisher was a pornographer and not particularly interested in the corruption angle of the woman’s stories, either.) The Press and new media, presented with the Leveson Report recommendations, are being given a similar choice to Wellie– we’re going to give you an opportunity here that we don’t really need to– you can go along with a new regulatory scheme and it’ll be a lot easier on you, won’t it, or you can publish and take your chances in Court. Guido says, “I’ll publish– and ‘be damned,’ if you will, if it comes to that!”
Every so-called “reform” that increases power for one set of persons at another’s expense is always touted to the latter as being for its own good, if it would only be wise enough to see. Guido is the little child in the famous cartoon who says “Well, I say it’s SPINACH– and I say to hell with it!”
That cartoon is not very famous.
Shows you how old I am, FFS. This cartoon goes well back to long before Victoria was a secret:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_fqQmWbKsiA0/R-6I3eSHK8I/AAAAAAAAAAs/HkyxYS8kyBQ/s320/BroccoliG.gif
I nominate Ann Clwyd for most loathsome c-unt of the year. The expenses troughing, Iraq war championing bitch stood up at pmqs and turned on the waterworks over her husband’s treatment by callous nhs nurses. Whilst I do sympathise with her loss, it begs two questions: with her generous MP’s salary and his earnings as a TV producer, why didn’t she place him in private care? A lot of private hospitals have cruel staff too but she could have found one that provided the best care. But more importantly, why is this the first time she’s raised this issue? Does she think the lack of compassion by nursing staff is a new thing? It’s been going on for years.
I admit I’m a little biased because I’ve loathed Clwyd ever since she became Tony Blair’s patsy over Iraq. I remember the prune faced c-unt touring the TV studios to basically say invading Iraq was right because someone like her was supporting it! In return, Blair gives her the completely worthless carrot of being human rights envoy to Iraq. She did a fine job there. As we know, there have been no human rights abuses since the war! But it gave Ann the opportunity to get her ugly mug on screen more and have all expenses paid trips to Baghdad where she stayed in the nice luxury hotels surrounded by American and British troops. And during her tenure as president of the parliamentary party, she became notorious for shouting down any complaints and criticisms of Blair.
All in all, Clwyd is a thoroughly despicable creature. The female Denis Skinner, she’s still riding on the back of an undeserved reputation for being a rebel and a crusader, when she’s nothing of the sort. They’re both worthless sacks of vomit who are held up as almost folk heroes, when in reality they’re both downright shoddy people who collect a fat salary and do absolutely fuck all.
At the start of the 2010 parliament following the election, Clwyd was quoted as saying she wouldn’t have stood again if she’d known how complex the new expenses process would be. That alone is a reason to hate this vile, self-serving, ostentatious, troughing piece of shit.
I am with you on Clwyd. A hypocrite of the first water.
Skinner has more reason for respect, at least based on past exploits.
There are some inquiries that it is not in the public interest to know the outcome of it seems…
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/9758314/Families-of-Iraq-war-dead-dismayed-as-Chilcot-Inquiry-hit-by-further-delays.html
I didnt get why as soon as she (allegedly) was concerned by her husbands care she didnt speak to the ward sister, and stay with him until she was assured of him getting more attention.Its almost as though she wanted a reason to complain at PMQs !
Deport him you miserable english
We have, apparently.
Come on ladies, Come on ladies
Come on MPs, Come on MPs
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I read yesterday that this bloke is now selling his fish in Islamabad after being deported,yet we still cannot get rid of Hamza.
You got it mixed up. We got rid of Abu Hamza. It’s Abu Qatada we can’t get rid of.
This has been a tremendously successful and prudent year for myself. In addition to winning 4 gold medals at the Olympics, I became a Youtube sensation with my song Gangnam Style, I broke box office records in my third outing as James Bond in Skyfall, and I won the Christmas Day ratings war with my guest appearance on Downton Abbey.
I look forward to 2013, when I’ll be starring in Iron Man 3, doing a world tour and collecting the Nobel Peace Prize.
Shirley, the Nobel prize for economics?
Anyone for a refresher?
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Leveson’s big mistake was to concentrate on the Hugh Grants, Alan Partridges and Max Mosleys in an inquisition set up because an ordinary murdered schoolgirl’s phone was hacked (supposedly but never proven) by a PI working for the papers.
He also ignored all the pain the courts, his courts, put her family through. A pain which was worse that the supposedly deleted emails probably done by the phone company as they time expired.
But most of all it was simply an inquisition into events that were illegal anyway and an inquisition set up by Dave as an ill thought out knee jerk reaction to Ed’s cynical politicising of the murder of a schoolgirl for his own ends.
You are right but how very dare you!
Spot on.
You are I think totally correct in your analysis …
Even the Dowlers reason for being upset at the press was never mentioned (the reporting of her Dads hobby) instead we had this witch hunt , inflamed by the odious Ed Milliband and the silly text business.I never got why they didnt know phones delete texts, or why Murdoch gave them (and they accepted ) £3,000,000 WTF.
I had a wonderful christmas lunch. Three roast turkeys, 1kg of roast potatoes, 2 litres of gravy, all washed down with 6 litres of coca cola, followed by bread and butter pudding, chocolate log, christmas cake and 30 mince pies covered in brandy butter and double cream.
Starting the diet early ?
*applause*
This bloody Gang nam thing. Didn’t Cameron say he was clamping down on gangs?