Next on the list of super rich celebs who have bunged cash to Hacked Off is philosopher of love Alain de Botton. He is another ex-journalist donor, having penned a column for the Sindy in the late nineties. The son of Swiss financier Gilbert de Botton, estimated fortune £234 million, De Botton inherited millions in a trust fund left for him by his father.
A few quid to regulate the press would be a drop in the ocean…
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Ai Weiwei in China fighting the taxman…
“Under totalitarian rule, no one is protected by law. We will all be the same helpless victims. When a country insists on its lies, it’s time for an artist to bring forth change.”
Ned Flanders – Clegg
Lisa Simpson – Natalie Bennett
Milhouse – Hilary Benn
Martin Prince – Andy Burnham
Edna Krabappel – Luciana Berger
Crazy Cat Lady – Glenda jackson
Comic book guy – John Prescott
Carl – Chucka
Lenny – Philip Hammond
Willie – Eric joyce
Poochie – Gordon Brown
Reverend Lovejoy – Tony Blair
But why did the press leave it until the last minute before passing this on to Guido?
They (the press) could not publish this as it would seem like sour grapes but it should have been blogged last week.
It’s also now obvious that commentators such as Brillo and Dan Hodges were aware of the backers from their questions and Blogs.
I can’t hear you. Please repeat….
…”to break with the past and finally once and for all abolish the Labour Party and all its works and members”.
Good idea – what’s not to like?
That is a remarkably fascist message.
Sour grapes isn’t the right analogy, they really did want it.
So what has he done, been caught with a crack whore, white powder up is nose or been caught with rent boys. They all seem to have a dirty little secret.
Not everybody. The press attempted everything to find dirt on Chris Jefferies to justify their public lynching and completely failed. But, hey, lwhy should the truth to be allowed to get in the way of a good headline – however fictitious.
I glad we aren’t advised by Hacked Off! We are on the side of working people! One Nation!!
No Ed … It’s “Damnation” and ruin that you face.
Where is Hugh Bonneville Guido – surely there somewhere?
I like your list Guido
But I feel you are missing a key point in all of this
Whatever happens, it looks as though the batteries of gouging and grossly overpaid libel lawyers will continue their evil ways
With no libel reform on the horizon now
London, the capital of libel tourism will continue, the shillings and Carter Fucks will continue to gouge and charge 120 times what lawyers on the Continent charge (recent Oxford study) and the judges will continue their cosy ways with their old friends from their Chambers
That is what revolting in all of this
We have plenty of lampposts – not sure of the details of the French lawyer who’s been found dead in a lake of water – but when lawyers and their ilk start to die – it makes me very very happy *smiley face*
You maybe have a little list?
Since Guido seems to be targeting individuals based only on his disagreement with them (rather than any wrongdoing) I assume he would be equally happy if his family are targeted elsewhere (given disagreement with their support of husband and daddy)?
eh? I think you’ve lost the plot somewhere.
It seems to me that losing the plot involves targeting people on the basis of no more than ‘my enemies friend is my enemy’. Do that and any disagreement becomes a target of vilification and the open debate Guido purports to support becomes stifled by fear.
And the backers of lobby groups should be kept secret in a democracy?
Fine. Lets have every backer of every political party named and hunted. Lets expose to the light the relationship between Guido and News International (including all stories supplied to Guido and any payments). I happen to believe this is going too far – but what’s fair for one is fair for all.
I think you’ve lost the pilot somewhere.
Weak hacked off anon, very weak indeed.
Not hacked off. Just never liked bullies. Guido is a classic case. I respect him targeting wrongdoers, but not those who just offer support to a cause with which he (and I) disagree.
That’s the point; Hacked Off are weak, opinionated, naive to the point of embarrassment and tiny.
But they’ve beaten the MSM hollow. Why? Because the MSM had a poor moral argument to start with in the wake of the hacking, and did NOTHING to defend a free press once it was under threat other than to bleat on about principle, as though it were a god-given right to continue as they were. Not one MSM institution really tackled the issue and because of that complacency, they’ve pulled the whole edifice down around them.
A very much deserved fail. It’s only the bloggers who’ll save the day.
The msm are ‘shackled by lawyers’ – their lawyers supposedly run their beady eyes across articles – which just might out dirt on those really at the top – and those articles are always pulled – what is pumped out is deemed by the real comptrollers to be anyone below who is expendable.
look around at every walk of life – are our lives being throttled day by day by those who hide conveniently (as lawyers do) behind all the thieving?
Should I contriubute some of my taxpayer handouts to Hacked Off Guido?
OH DEAR.
Hacked off are getting the full Guido treatment today….LOL
Worried Me Thinks.
Keep your Mobile out of Guidos sight
Guido – wheres your opinion on the robbery in Cyprus?
So the Dowler’s are victims of a campaign by the errant rich to keep their names out of the papers.
Seems you feel strongly about this, Greedo.
You and all the horrible people.
Never mind Hugh. They say California is nice this time of year.
The answer to bullying is to attack the bully. I understand OM (fullname would be modded) has Guido sleeping in the spare room if her name or those of the kids are so much as mentioned in public.
How dare you!
It may be a little unfair. I had heard that Guido has a virtually permanent case of ‘brewers droop’ which makes his sleeping arrangements almost irrelevant.
Syr!za advises Cyprus not to accept deal and…
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‘He [Alexis Tsipras] said that met with senior officials from the British Labour Party during a recent visit to London and in a wide-ranging interview with the New Statesman, said the proposal in Cyprus was “unbelievable and self-destructive.”’
UK Labour coordinating with Syriza on Cypriot bailouts ?
To be expected:
But S+P issued a ‘veiled’ warning that Germanys Triple A rating may be affected if the Euro issue is not sorted out. In particular, the agency expressed concern about the possibility of instability across the Southern European countries in response to Cyprus ‘deal’.
And Put!n was happy before this business with Cyprus as the US had cancelled a large chunk of NMD.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/17/world/europe/with-eye-on-north-korea-us-cancels-missile-defense-russia-opposed.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0
What that does for European security is a good question.
He’s not even British and he’s using his money to influence British policy making? That’s not very democratic!!
Mind it perhaps explains why militwit has ended up a stooge of hacked-off and given the leadership of the labour party to hughgrant .
Labour party is virtually out of money -he’s no doubt hoping that his craven cowtowing to hacked off will get some of those £millions into labour coffers.
Bit like Ashcroft……
Not really , ashcroft holds British nationality – this other chap is a foreignor!
Wrong; de Botton was born in Switzerland but holds British citizenship and, unlike Ashcroft, is domiciled and resident in the UK for tax purposes.
If that is so, then our immigration department needs to get its bloody finger out as to whom it grants citizenship.
KEEP THE INTRUSIVE PRESS OUT THEN WE WON’T HAVE TO WITNESS THIS ANY MORE…
Wondered why this millionaire -ex journalist who appears whiter than white on wiki would join Hacked-off.
However a book interview reveals- “perhaps we can come to see the point of censoring the Internet and applaud any government attempts to reduce the ready and unchecked flow of pornography.”
Noble ideals- The picture of Kwith Briant in his soiled underwear had me feeling the same.
Your true tabloid colours are starting to show Guido – what a shame – once a force for good, no longer.
Carry on Guido. You are rubbing sore nerves. They don’t like up up em.
Bewildebeest; +many. So true.
The real truth behind the whole Leveson show is that the “Cheating classes” having been found out cannot handle the blogosphere – and are desperate to silence lawful criticism of their decades of abuse and pilfering from the taxpayers.
The political showboating across the floor of parliament of some kind of division among themselves is shown to be nothing but pure theatre – spun up by the leading actors and then spun out by the other hack actors in the complicit msm.
Expected better from him.
And that photograph makes him look absolutely sinister – but given he’s an associated of hughgrant and hughgrant’s teaboy militwit I guess he probably is.
Don’t expect anymore expose of the likes of saville, or is the reason for locking the press away. We need to look closely at our Constitution where I think there must be something in it to make this undemocratic mess illegal.
If government thinks that it can now stop details of their fraudulent, crominal ways getting into the public domain, they’d best think again.
The elephant in the room here is the internet – controlling that is virtually impossible.
One avenue to look at is how bliar – for himself and his previous PM’s – slowly pulled away the treason laws. They have been slowly repealed – unlawfully and unconstitutionally. Smoke ‘n Mirrors.
Anyone know anything more about the application for an emergency debate in the Commons @ 4.15pm this afternoon on press regulation?
It looks like the Hacked Off Campaign is just a back door way of getting a Super Injunction that won’t be over turned. Probably, cheaper too!
It says this on the outside of the Tin:
The Judiciary act independently of the Government of the day
The Government of the day act independently of the Judiciary
However inside the tin it says:
Well they’re both lying and are in fact acting in cahoots and in concert against the public interest.
I’m surprised that we haven’t heard Julian Assange give his opinion…and a homily about press freedoms etc. Could it be sour grapes over his rape charges splashed across the tabloids ?