Missing Milly Dowler's voicemail "hacked by News of the World"

[stethoscope]

He's been strenuously denying any wrongdoing since the beginning, it could be beautiful.

Particularly if they take the chatshow gig from him

Wouldn't it just!

 

[laptop]

I wonder if whoever's going to run that decided to hold off until the Sara Payne story had occupied tomorrow's front pages.

More like, the lawyers at all media outlets are saying as one: "oh fuck, give us time to work this one out..."

Piers Morgan denies phone-hacking 'admission'
27 July 2011 Last updated at 16:46

 

[laptop]

More like, the lawyers at all media outlets are saying as one: "oh fuck, give us time to work this one out..."

Piers Morgan denies phone-hacking 'admission'
27 July 2011 Last updated at 16:46

Or, for that matter: has Morgan an injunction?

 

[little_legs]

Boris Johnson's deputy mayor for policing Kit Malthouse was briefed about Hoare's NYT article 5 days before Johnson dismissed the phone-hacking scandal as "codswallop cooked up by the Labour Party".

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/stand...otland-yard-chief-faces-phone-hacking-quiz.do

 

[audiotech]

As new allegations of phone hacking swirl around CNN primetime host Piers Morgan, he may yet come to regret the swashbuckling hubris of his performance at the DCMS select committee in 2003.

His performance at the DCMS select committee is here to see:

http://politicalscrapbook.net/2011/07/piers-morgan-dcms-committee/

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

(to Paulie as well) Is there a word that conveys "Lowest of the low" for these people?

I hope Brooks chokes on this. I hope it kills what "soul" she has left.

it's difficult to see that you're the lowest of the low, if everyone around you is even deeper? who knows? bunch of fucking arseholes at the very least, the worst kind of excuse for journalism if i was being kind.

 

[ferrelhadley]

Someone has been trying to post this on the Guardians comments page and not getting very far

I've been working on this little list of MPs (and a couple of ex-MPs) that have received either donations or payments for work from NI, posted it on the Guardian, it got deleted, so here is an updated version of it. It covers summer 09 to present so far but I will extend it and hopefully format it a bit more nicely:

Baker, Norman £300 (09-10)
Blunkett, David £50,000 plus (09-11) (someone may have more success adding this up than me)
Boles, Nick £1000 (10-11)
Cable, Vincent £1850 (09-10)
Cameron, David £1241.55 (09-10) sponsorship
Campbell, Menzies £400 (10-11)
Clarke, Charles £650 (09-10) (plus unspecified amount?)
Carswell, Douglas £400 (10-11)
Collins, Damian £300 (10-11)
Davis, David £5400 (09-11)
Darling, Alistair £600 (10-11) (plus 6 bottles wine)
Dorrell, Stephen £400 (10-11)
Engel, Natascha £500 (10-11)
Field, Frank £850 (09-11) (plus unspecified amount?)
Flint, Caroline £300 (10-11)
Gove, Michael £34500+ (09-10)
Hancock, Matthew £500 (10-11)
Harris, Tom £500 (10-11)
Holloway, Adam £500 (09-10)
Howard, Michael £250 (09-10)
Laws, David £400 (10-11)
Leslie, Charlotte £300 (10-11)
MacShane, Denis £unspecified (09-11) (£0-5000 range both years)
Mensch, Louise £632.79 (10-11)
Mercer, Patrick £3650-4650 (09-11) (hard to be sure of exact amount die to formatting issues in register)
Miliband, David £1000 (10-11)
Milburn, Alan £unspecified (09-10) (£0-5000 range)
Norman, Jesse £300 (10-11) (donated to charity)
Oaten, Mark £unspecified (09-10) (5000-10000 range)
Pound, Stephen £3000 (09-10)
Pritchard, Mark £500 (10-11)
Purnell, James £1500 (09-10)
Raab, Dominic £800 (10-11)
Redwood, John £1900 (10-11)
Rifkind, Malcom £3000 (09-11)
Stewart, Bob £400 (10-11)
Stewart, Rory £618 (10-11)
Straw, Jack £7150 (10-11)

Its interesting although perhaps you could guess at who will be top of the list based on articles written.

 

[cybertect]

Reading this on my phone, but isn't there a big gap where Hague should be ?

 

[The Octagon]

What's the significance of the bolded names?

 

[ymu]

What's the significance of the bolded names?

They're mostly the largest sums, and also the most high profile villains, but I dunno why Redwood, Rifkind and Straw have been left unhighlighted on either count.

 

[butchersapron]

That list is missing quite a few people - presumably because they just went through the files searching for News International - if you bung in bskyb or sky the list expands a fair bit.

 

[The Octagon]

They're mostly the largest sums, and also the most high profile villains, but I dunno why Redwood, Rifkind and Straw have been left unhighlighted on either count.

I just found it odd that Cameron was left out of the 'notables'

 

[weltweit]

I just found it odd that Cameron was left out of the 'notables'

Gove, Michael £34500

That is a lot. Wasn't Gove a former journalist?

 

[Santino]

Wasn't Gove a former journalist?

He still is a former journalist.

 

[ymu]

^

I just found it odd that Cameron was left out of the 'notables'

Ooh, missed him. Yep - he qualifies on amount (more than Milliband's £1k) and villainy.

So no, I do not know what the bolding is about.

 

[weltweit]

He still is a former journalist.

Yes, why did I do that ...

 

[ferrelhadley]

That list is missing quite a few people - presumably because they just went through the files searching for News International - if you bung in bskyb or sky the list expands a fair bit.

Thanks for that. Very useful.

Rt Hon David Cameron turns up again

Payment of £3089.06 from HarperCollins Publishers, via Ed Victor Ltd, 6 Bayley Street,
Bedford Square, London WC1B 3HE, for publication advance for ‘Cameron on Cameron:
Conversations with Dylan Jones, ahead of paperback edition. Hours: Approximately 3 hrs on
updated (paperback) edition. All payments relating to the book will be donated to charity.
(Registered 3 March 2010)

 

[Bernie Gunther]

Presumably this is just what they admitted to in the register of interests or whatever it's called?

Rather than any hypothetical brown envelopes, free wraps of coke, blow-jobs or whatever?

 

[Random]

Nothing on Sara Payne's mum being hacked?

 

[Bernie Gunther]

Added to list of hacked....Sarah Payne's mum....

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/28/phone-hacking-sarah-payne

Here ...

 

[killer b]

http://www.politicshome.com/uk/arti...om_david_jones_investigative_journalists.html

i'm no fan of mensch, but that's perfectly pitched.

 

[ymu]

http://www.politicshome.com/uk/arti...om_david_jones_investigative_journalists.html

i'm no fan of mensch, but that's perfectly pitched.

It is. Credit where credit's due. Perfect response to obvious harrassment and attempts at threatening her, like they've been doing for decades with great success.

I do hope someone finds out who hired the investigative journalist. If they're stupid enough to try and pull this shit still, they can go down for it too.

 

[belboid]

eh? harrassment? It's prerrt pisspoor harrassment, if that is what it is. Looks more like someone has acted on longstanding rumours, now that Mensch has made a bit of a name for herself (no point outing her drug use when she was just a no mark backbencher)

 

[belboid]

& in more Mensch news, the eejit has just apologised for misquoting Morgan

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-14346050

 

[butchersapron]

Seems that Glenn Mulcaire is coming out and claiming that he in no way acted alone - "As an employee he acted on the instructions of others." That's from some sky bloke - haven't got the full statement yet.

 

[Santino]

"No longer paying my legal fees, are you? Well, watch this!"

 

[weltweit]

http://www.politicshome.com/uk/arti...om_david_jones_investigative_journalists.html

i'm no fan of mensch, but that's perfectly pitched.

And one of the responses to her piece

Think you are trying to get people to forget you lied at the Select Committee about books you've never read and justifying your lies.

 

[DaveCinzano]

She wasn't lying, it's just a throwback to the snowblindness with which she is afflicted on account of all the fruit & flowers.

 

[laptop]

"No longer paying my legal fees, are you? Well, watch this!"

:fingers-crossed:

 

[laptop]

Statement from Mulcaire's solicitors:

As an employee he acted on the instructions of others.

There were also occasions when he understood his instructions were from those who genuinely wished to assist in solving crimes. Any suggestion that he acted in such matters unilaterally is untrue. In the light of the ongoing police investigation, he cannot say any more.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/blog/2011/jul/29/phone-hacking-scandal-live-coverage#block-18