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

UILs ? what they?

Plus are all the people in the background supposed to be working, because sod all work seems to be being done!! :)
 
Jeeeeeeesus feck... I was wondering what all this "hope you like our solution" talk was, I'd missed all that.

To quote the previously referenced Blackadder episode: Goodbyeeeeeeeee!
 
Wilf said:
grauniad have put together a timeline. Just on its own this should kill him:

Around midday: The European commission unconditionally approved News Corporation's bid to take full control of BSkyB on competition grounds.

12.57pm: Jeremy Hunt text to James Murdoch: "Great and congrats on Brussels. Just Ofcom to go."

2.30pm: The BBC publishes Vince Cable's comments to undercover Daily Telegraph reporters, in which the business secretary said: "I don't know if you have been following what has been happening with the Murdoch press, where I have declared war on Mr Murdoch and I think we are going to win."

3.56pm: News Corporation statement: "News Corp is shocked and dismayed by reports of Mr Cable's comments. They raise serious questions about fairness and due process."

4pm: Hunt has a phone call with James Murdoch, discussing Cable's comments.

4.08pm: Hunt texts George Osborne, the chancellor, to say he is "seriously worried we are going to screw this up" regarding the BSkyB bid, and, in a second text, says Murdoch is accusing Cable of "acute bias" over the bid.

4.58pm: Osborne texts Hunt: "I hope you like our solution."

5.45pm: Downing Street announces that Cable has been stripped of responsibility for the BSkyB decision and that responsibility has been handed to Hunt.
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The guardian have totally missed a trick here - potentially the key trick in fact. They've taken the time/date of the Cable stuff coming out from when the BBC first reported it ( 2-30 on the 21st), not from date time the actual article went up on the Telegraph site (9-30 on the 20th) - so the text to Murodoch came after the Cable story had been broken, not before.
 
butchersapron said:
The guardian have totally missed a trick here - potentially the key trick in fact. They've taken the time/date of the Cable stuff coming out from when the BBC first reported it ( 2-30 on the 21st), not from date time the actual article went up on the Telegraph site (9-30 on the 20th) - so the text to Murodoch came after the Cable story had been broken, not before.
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Didn't the Telegraph story come out in two waves? First the redacted conversation with no reference to Murdoch, then the full story. Is this reflected?
 
"We weren't pro-Murdoch... We weren't following a process for appearance's sake..."

Would be looking forward to Leveson's definition of "irony". Shame I have work to do... :mad:
 
Santino said:
Didn't the Telegraph story come out in two waves? First the redacted conversation with no reference to Murdoch, then the full story. Is this reflected?
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IIRC there were rumours going around that the redacted bit was "leaked" out of the Torygraph newsroom as well, so they (either Hunt/Cameron/Osborne or NI) could potentially have known about it before the story actually broke.
 
agricola said:
IIRC there were rumours going around that the redacted bit was "leaked" out of the Torygraph newsroom as well, so they (either Hunt/Cameron/Osborne or NI) could potentially have known about it before the story actually broke.
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Lest we forget the Will Lewis shitstorm.
 
agricola said:
IIRC there were rumours going around that the redacted bit was "leaked" out of the Torygraph newsroom as well, so they (either Hunt/Cameron/Osborne or NI) could potentially have known about it before the story actually broke.
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Well, someone was leaking it for sure - we know that for a fact.
 
agricola said:
IIRC there were rumours going around that the redacted bit was "leaked" out of the Torygraph newsroom as well, so they (either Hunt/Cameron/Osborne or NI) could potentially have known about it before the story actually broke.
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come to think of it, the editorial hierarchy at the Torygraph must be crawling with people who'd be only to happy to shaft a lib dem
 
The current discussion of whether Hunt and Smith knew what was about to come out about phone hacking (that made NI keen to get a green light on Sky before it came out) makes me wonder:

Have we yet seen the "far worse to come" that an NI executive (Brooks?) mentioned to staff when the News of the World was shut?

Or... is there more?
 
butchersapron said:
Ah yes, well remembered - the one about cable/murdoch went out 3-36 on the 21st.
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Still, the timeline is a lovely example of that (Ralph!) Miliband v Poulantzas stuff on the nature of the elite, personal links vs structural power. In the age of texts and email, the elite are able to manoeuvre in real time!
 
Streathamite said:
come to think of it, the editorial hierarchy at the Torygraph must be crawling with people who'd be only to happy to shaft a lib dem
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Which was the irony - they allegedly sat on the Cable / Murdoch stuff because they realised it could have destroyed their own anti-Murdoch efforts.
 
weltweit said:
Plus are all the people in the background supposed to be working, because sod all work seems to be being done!! :)
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They're mostly civil servants/enquiry staff - Robert Jay doesn't stay up all night wading through through thousands of ring binders full of evidence - he has these people to do it for him.
 
agricola said:
Which was the irony - they allegedly sat on the Cable / Murdoch stuff because they realised it could have destroyed their own anti-Murdoch efforts.
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...and it appears that of of Hunt's two favoured journo is/was Andrew Porter of the Telegraph. I cannot believe he had no inkling of what was coming.
 
apparently Louise Mensch thinks this is a strong performance and Hunt has answered all questions in full.

has she been offered his job?
 
4.08pm: Hunt texts George Osborne, the chancellor, to say he is "seriously worried we are going to screw this up" regarding the BSkyB bid, and, in a second text, says Murdoch is accusing Cable of "acute bias" over the bid.

4.58pm: Osborne texts Hunt: "I hope you like our solution."


WHAT ABOUT THE CHINESE WALL??????????
 
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