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« Reply #50 on: July 13, 2011, 04:45:33 AM »

I don't completely get why Cameron's running away from this whole thing. Refusing to ask Brooks to go, refusing to debate today. Has he got something to hide? Even Clegg's climbed out from under his rock (hadn't heard much about him for about a month and a half) to say a few words about it.

It would be improper for the Prime Minister to tell an independent press who they should hire and fire for short term political gain, something Ed appears to have forgotten.

Ed Miliband is entitled to express his opinion, is he not?
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« Reply #51 on: July 13, 2011, 10:50:44 AM »

News Corp has withdrawn its bid for full control of BSkyB.
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« Reply #52 on: July 13, 2011, 11:40:02 AM »

Watching Gordon Brown in the Commons now. He's brilliant.
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« Reply #53 on: July 13, 2011, 04:20:09 PM »

News Corp has withdrawn its bid for full control of BSkyB.

Congratulations.

It also seems that an investigation in the United States is gaining steam. Surely American senators want Murdoch out as much as British politicians do, and this is going to be a simmering issue for quite some time.
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« Reply #54 on: July 14, 2011, 07:19:23 AM »

Watching Gordon Brown in the Commons now. He's brilliant.

I felt quite sorry for him. It was essentially a rant (which breached civil service protocal) from a man who finally turned up to the Commons and shattered what had until then been a bi-partisan atmosphere. He never stood up to News International; he fawned over them and screeching about it in the Commons won't change that fact.

Nick Clegg revealed that when Andy Coulson resigned from the NoTW, Brown was the first on the phone to offer commiserations and the relationship was cosy until the Sun stopped backing Labour. BBC's Andrew Neil has also said that Brown had sworn revenge against Murdoch for abandoning Labour telling him 'I will destroy you.' Indeed thanks to Browns intervention starting with the fudged story about his families records and continuing with his Common's rant has been successful in turning attention towards Labour. The expressions on Labour's backbenchers said it all...
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« Reply #55 on: July 14, 2011, 03:40:31 PM »

Watching Gordon Brown in the Commons now. He's brilliant.

I felt quite sorry for him. It was essentially a rant (which breached civil service protocal) from a man who finally turned up to the Commons and shattered what had until then been a bi-partisan atmosphere. He never stood up to News International; he fawned over them and screeching about it in the Commons won't change that fact.

He never had a choice; the support of this media mogul was vital to Labour getting back in 1997 and staying there for three terms. It shaped public opinion as much as followed it.
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« Reply #56 on: July 14, 2011, 04:39:18 PM »

Watching Gordon Brown in the Commons now. He's brilliant.

I felt quite sorry for him. It was essentially a rant (which breached civil service protocal) from a man who finally turned up to the Commons and shattered what had until then been a bi-partisan atmosphere. He never stood up to News International; he fawned over them and screeching about it in the Commons won't change that fact.

He never had a choice; the support of this media mogul was vital to Labour getting back in 1997 and staying there for three terms. It shaped public opinion as much as followed it.

Exactly. And he even if he did call Coulson upon his resignation, only one PM hired him again.
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« Reply #57 on: July 15, 2011, 03:23:41 AM »

I don't really know what's happening there (Italian news barely talk about this affair), but if this could help us finally getting rid of Murdoch, it's all very good.
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« Reply #58 on: July 15, 2011, 04:05:32 AM »

Brooks resigned.
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« Reply #59 on: July 15, 2011, 04:48:29 AM »


Yes! Finally!
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« Reply #60 on: July 15, 2011, 05:11:37 AM »


Technically she offered her resignation last week. Now it has been accepted Smiley
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« Reply #61 on: July 15, 2011, 12:38:19 PM »

I think it was more the case that she 'offered' her 'resignation' back then; ah, but you can't kill a landslide.

Obviously good news that she's finally gone, though. Hopefully prison awaits.
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« Reply #62 on: July 15, 2011, 12:44:31 PM »

Thoughts on the committee hearing?

I don't completely get why Cameron's running away from this whole thing. Refusing to ask Brooks to go, refusing to debate today. Has he got something to hide? Even Clegg's climbed out from under his rock (hadn't heard much about him for about a month and a half) to say a few words about it.

In fairness to Cameron he only ran away once or twice, which isn't that much considering the level of embarrassment wrt Coulson and Chipping Norton (that is, extreme). It just looked terrible because of the speed at which this story has moved.
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« Reply #63 on: July 15, 2011, 05:16:03 PM »

Actually doing a tour of parliament on the day of the hearings. Interesting.

Oh, and:


You know you're up a certain creek when people think Clegg's doing something better than you are.
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« Reply #64 on: July 15, 2011, 05:39:37 PM »



Les Hinton is gone as well.
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« Reply #65 on: July 16, 2011, 02:59:10 AM »

If only the last domino could be Murdoch himself...
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« Reply #66 on: July 16, 2011, 12:42:29 PM »

Worth a read, I suppose: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/wintour-and-watt/2011/jul/15/john-yates-watergate

Oh yes. Something else.



Anyone else think it looks like a newspaper advert from the 80s?
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« Reply #67 on: July 16, 2011, 12:45:17 PM »

I find it vaguely fitting that Leo Kirch chose this week to die.
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« Reply #68 on: July 17, 2011, 07:46:32 AM »

Brooks has been arrested.
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« Reply #69 on: July 17, 2011, 07:56:26 AM »

It appears that the Guardian coverage  has substantially and likely deliberately misled not just the British public, but the police as well.
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« Reply #70 on: July 17, 2011, 08:17:32 AM »


Didn't expect that one at all...
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« Reply #71 on: July 17, 2011, 01:58:47 PM »

Sir Paul Stephenson has become the latest head of the Met to resign as a result of scandal.

Maybe we need a change of thread title?

Or just a new thread?
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« Reply #72 on: July 17, 2011, 02:38:05 PM »

Sir Paul Stephenson has become the latest head of the Met to resign as a result of scandal.

Maybe we need a change of thread title?

Or just a new thread?

I'd personally go for new thread title.
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« Reply #73 on: July 17, 2011, 02:48:38 PM »

She spells her name Rebekah - that alone should be grounds for arrest.

How vulgar and common. Very American.
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« Reply #74 on: July 17, 2011, 04:09:20 PM »

She spells her name Rebekah - that alone should be grounds for arrest.

How vulgar and common. Very American.

Yeah, it's half-assed. Either go all the way back to the start and use Rivqa/Rivka or just accept that Rebecca is the English spelling and has been for centuries. This is almost as bad as naming a child KheightLynne or something instead of Caitlin.
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