Murdoch: Ouf! Is this meltdown?

[Simon]

<<Yawn>>

[amateur51]

Glenn Mulcaire takes legal action against News International to force firm to pay his legal bills

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/aug/18/phone-hacking-glenn-mulcaire

And here are some Major surprises:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2011/aug/18/john-major-alliance-take-on-rupert-murdoch

Read the above link right to the end - there's an extraordinary revelation (even more extraordinary than the earlier ones :ok::biggrin:

[Mr Pee]

:yawn::yawn:

[Mandryka]

Glenn Mulcaire takes legal action against News International to force firm to pay his legal bills

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/aug/18/phone-hacking-glenn-mulcaire

And here are some Major surprises:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2011/aug/18/john-major-alliance-take-on-rupert-murdoch

Read the above link right to the end - there's an extraordinary revelation (even more extraordinary than the earlier ones :ok::biggrin:

That is a fascinating article, am51, and thanks for the link to it.

It's long bewildered me that the Tories and Labour haven't evolved a bipartisan policy on Murdoch - it's been blindingly clear for far too long that his only interest in politics is in what he can get out of it. Currying favour with him and his minions is in nobody's long-term interest.

The stuff about the 1990 Broadcasting Bill didn't surprise me at all, I'm afraid to say.

Fascinating that the people who post yawn icons on this thread are interested enough to keep following it.

[Mr Pee]

Fascinating that the people who post yawn icons on this thread are interested enough to keep following it.

I pop back now and again just to see whether there's anything remotely interesting or exciting going on, but there's just the usual suspects posting up links from the Guardian. :erm:

Hence the :yawn::yawn::yawn:

[Simon]

Indeed Mr P.

Single-issue comments from single-track minds.

If you'll pardon the overstatement. :laugh:

[ahinton]

Indeed Mr P.

Single-issue comments from single-track minds.

If you'll pardon the overstatement. :laugh:

Well, I certainly won't pardon or overlook it either from you or from Mr Pee. To begin with, I see no problem whatsoever with single-issue comments when a single issue is being discussed and, if the minds of those addressing such issues are on track and focussed, they will be single-track ones for the duration of that focus and attention.

As to Mr Pee's predictable response (why are so many of his responses predictable?), there are plenty of other topics here in which no one necessarily quotes from any journal at all and, in any case, not all journal quotes in this and similar threads have been from the Guardian. For anyone to be a "usual suspect" there has first to be someone to do the suspecting and something that the "suspect" has done that might reasonably arouse "suspicion"; the use of that term is thus at best unhelpful in the present context and certainly adds nothing useful to the discussion.

[amateur51]

Glenn Mulcaire, the private investigator at the centre of the News of the World phone hacking, has been ordered by a court to reveal who instructed him to access the voicemails of model Elle MacPherson and five other public figures including Lib Dem deputy leader Simon Hughes

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/aug/19/glenn-mulcaire-phone-hacking

Mulcaire, who was jailed in 2007 after pleading guilty to hacking the phones of members of the royal household for the News of the World, has been forced into making the disclosure following legal action by the comedian and actor Steve Coogan.

Good to see that Steve Coogan is prepared to put himself in the front line in this way. I'm full of admiration for this :ok::biggrin:

[french frank]

It would seem unreasonable to insist that News International pay his legal fees while refusing to provide evidence that he was asked/told to hack people's phones by his employers.

[handsomefortune]

> Good to see that Steve Coogan is prepared to put himself in the front line <

:ok: let's hope other celebs follow! coogan cut the mustard (against the odds) on a tv snippet i saw too.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

yep ... Hugh Grant is having a good hackgate as well, and so is Jude Law i look forward to George Galloway getting in to court ...

[amateur51]

A police officer has been arrested in relation to leaks during the Scotland Yard phone-hacking investigation.The 51-year-old detective constable was arrested at work on Thursday and bailed. He has been suspended.

The BBC understands a second man arrested on Friday as part of the Met's Operation Weeting was Dan Evans, 35, a former News of the World reporter.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-14596815

The Met's Deputy Assistant Commissioner Sue Akers said the police officer's arrest was "hugely disappointing"

It's all going terribly well, isn't it :erm::whistle:

[handsomefortune]

> i look forward to George Galloway getting in to court <

me too, all power to george!

i so wish jon gaunt was in a lot more trouble, for dragging up hugh grant's past ..... i can't stick hugh grant.... but next to jon gaunt, hugh's a 'likeable mature sex symbol, with genuine charisma'. (never thought i'd write that about hg - but there you go)

i've just had the yearly magazine arrive, from 'alumni - friends of the uni' i went to. plastered on the front cover is a (frankly) detestable looking chap, who apparently used to work as editor of 'the sun'. i thought this deeply hypocritical, tactless in the extreme. it (wrongly imo) assumes ex students want to hear from this person, about his career at 'the sun' under murdoch. surely not something to crow about, and especially not right now! worst of all, it pretends to be 'advice' to graduates ....(pass the sick bag emoticon).

at this rate, next year's magazine cover just might be - 'jack the ripper, did he have good taste in women'? by steve wright and peter sutcliff!

(i also note that the lingo around business, and entreprenurial risk generally, is increasingly fake, or outright cobblers ....eg 'growing' your own graduate business'.....? and 'graduate green shoots' etc. as with 'the big society' it appears to be language filched from elsewhere, reappropriated for the purpose of whatever myths the author/s fancy peddling. whereas you'd think academic institutions might be concerned about their own credibility, logically)?

[Serial_Apologist]

> i look forward to George Galloway getting in to court <

me too, all power to george!

i so wish jon gaunt was in a lot more trouble, for dragging up hugh grant's past ..... i can't stick hugh grant.... but next to jon gaunt, hugh's a 'likeable mature sex symbol, with genuine charisma'. (never thought i'd write that about hg - but there you go)

i've just had the yearly magazine arrive, from 'alumni - friends of the uni' i went to. plastered on the front cover is a (frankly) detestable looking chap, who apparently used to work as editor of 'the sun'. i thought this deeply hypocritical, tactless in the extreme. it (wrongly imo) assumes ex students want to hear from this person, about his career at 'the sun' under murdoch. surely not something to crow about, and especially not right now! worst of all, it pretends to be 'advice' to graduates ....(pass the sick bag emoticon).

at this rate, next year's magazine cover just might be - 'jack the ripper, did he have good taste in women'? by steve wright and peter sutcliff!

(i also note that the lingo around business, and entreprenurial risk generally, is increasingly fake, or outright cobblers ....eg 'growing' your own graduate business'.....? and 'graduate green shoots' etc. as with 'the big society' it appears to be language filched from elsewhere, reappropriated for the purpose of whatever myths the author/s fancy peddling. whereas you'd think academic institutions might be concerned about their own credibility, logically)?

:erm: Which uni did you go to, hsf? :devil:

[handsomefortune]

the one with the very cheapest local accomodation, of course, serial apologist. i'm not fick, or summat. :ok: