Ted Striker
Foot's on the other hand
I'm sure Simon Hughes only ever speaks to allow Nick Clegg think "ineffectual spineless twat" and in doing so give a view of what the rest of the country thing of him.
Missing Milly Dowler's voicemail "hacked by News of the World"
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I'm sure Simon Hughes only ever speaks to allow Nick Clegg think "ineffectual spineless twat" and in doing so give a view of what the rest of the country thing of him.
past caring
The Cathars were right
If we're going with the sc-ifi analogies - is Milliband Rimmer out of Red Dwarf?
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
They're coming for all you backstabbing MPs and journos btw. Not just yet, but they're coming.
Ours and the Ewoks
ymu
Niall Ferguson's deep-cover sock-puppet
That's not them trying to do the right thing, that's them trying to fuck with the politicians. Murdoch withdrew the offer to hive off Sky to make referral to the CC just before Hunt was due to deliver a statement that was made irrelevant by his action. This is exactly the same. All three party leaders set to lead their parties out on a vote, so he withdraws before they can.
There's no way anyone thinks he's doing the right thing, and he's not interested in whether they think that anyway. He's trying to wrongfoot the politicians, and is probably trying to withdraw from the UK completely to stop the poison spreading across the Atlantic. As with every other move he's made in the last couple of weeks, it's too little too late and the whole of News Corp is now under serious threat. The US takes corporate governance a great deal more seriously than we do.
I can't fathom the doom-mongers here. Murdoch is not coming back. His power has gone and without it, he cannot do anything except watch his empire slip away. It won't change the world overnight, but the chief cheerleaders for austerity and demonisers of the poor are severely damaged/deaded by this, in the UK at the very least.
The Tories (blue, yellow or red) have lost the most vicious parts of their propaganda machine. It'll take them a while to rebuild it. There's a chink in the armour. Stuff happens because people make it happen - I think it's time to be thinking about what we would like to achieve, not dwell on the sheer impossibility of achieving it.
Louis MacNeice
Autumn Journalist
No, but this is Mas Ameeda (i.e. Mass Media), one of Palpatine's flunkies. It's like a metaphor or allegory for SOMETHING.
MellySingsDoom
Decimated by the shrapnel of his rhetoric
After a hard day's Murdoch busting, do "we" and the Ewoks get together over some tasty Findus Crispy Pancakes?
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
MellySingsDoom
Decimated by the shrapnel of his rhetoric
@ymu - I have to get back to work, but will reply to your last post as soon as I can.
temper_tantrum
The beauty of the ride
Fox News UK here we come.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Cameron's only anti-murdoch plan is now gone.
Divisive Cotton
Now I just have my toy soldiers
if you are fed up with wall to wall coverage of Murdoch and News International then i recommend this channel
butchersapron
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Who owns the rest of bskyb?
he proper lost his temper cos someone made a valid plausable point in the commons enquiry! I read his book. It was shit. Kissing blairs arse and wanting more draconian legislation
love detective
there's no love too small
the usual suspects with various small percentage holdings all over the place - next biggest shareholder has something like 7% - some investment management firm
butchersapron
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Divisive Cotton
Now I just have my toy soldiers
it's quite amusing to see the politicians queuing up to see who can denounce News International in the most strongest possible terms
Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
Alan Rusbridger said: "The prime minister's account of why he failed to act on the information we passed his office in February 2010 is highly misleading. Any ordinary person hearing of the unpublishable facts about a convicted News of the World private investigator facing conspiracy to murder charges would have recognised the need to investigate the claims. " Grauniad
Tom Watson just asked for an emergency intervention on this statement and what was said by Cameron during PMQs, during a debate about fixed term parliament debate, slapped down by Sexy Dawn in no uncertain terms and told to sling his hook.
Tom Watson just asked for an emergency intervention on this statement and what was said by Cameron during PMQs, during a debate about fixed term parliament debate, slapped down by Sexy Dawn in no uncertain terms and told to sling his hook.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
His office, not Cameron that's his current get out
Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
Debate just kicking off now.
MellySingsDoom
Decimated by the shrapnel of his rhetoric
Disco at it again (c/o the Graun) - the PM himself jumping on the good old "doing the right thing" Digger Express:
Is this going to be the spin/message from Number 10, that Murdoch is "doing the right thing" for the country? Is Disco going to start quietly and slowly getting back on track w/the Digger, whilst more openly giving the Graun et al grief in public?
Is this going to be the spin/message from Number 10, that Murdoch is "doing the right thing" for the country? Is Disco going to start quietly and slowly getting back on track w/the Digger, whilst more openly giving the Graun et al grief in public?
frogwoman
No amount of cajolery...
ymu
Niall Ferguson's deep-cover sock-puppet
What's just occurred to me, which was perhaps blindingly obvious, is that Murdoch's arrival and behaviour in London have all been played for the benefit of News Corp and BSkyB investors. That's why he's seemed so clumsy in how he's handling sentiment in Britain, because it's way down on his list of priorities.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Is it? How big is his holding elsewhere? What brings the money in? (gen question, my assumption that it's more over there)
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Did Brown press Blair over cross body ownership? They had legislation lined up - what happened to it? And why?
(you can say anything and add 'and why' and think you're a journo on the internet)
(you can say anything and add 'and why' and think you're a journo on the internet)
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