Nah, there’s the Sunday Mail (Scottish paper) and the Mail on Sunday. Somebody registered (or took over) thesunonsunday.co.uk two days ago
http://webwhois.nic.uk/cgi-bin/whois.cgi?query=thesunonsunday.co.uk
And bonking vicars everywhere breath a sigh of relief
I’m planning on a sleazy romp in a love-nest this weekend.
crosses fingers
I’m guessing she knows enough to put a Murdoch in jail.
I’m further guessing that Rupert is imagining scenarios where she’s offered a reduction in jail time for her testimony, and he’s not entirely sure what her response would be.
I think its pretty clear now why the previous investigations by the Met were so rubbish.
This must be at a very senior level within the Met to achieve this, and one wonders if the IPCC is clean too.
So, what we have, is hacking of phones - data protection, we have burglaries, we have bribery, preversion of the course of justice - due to the way investigations were carried out, we have various politicans and political parties that have employed those responsible for all this and who also seem to have completely underestimated the outrage of the public.
I would also point out that phone hacking is only one part of the arsenal of the reporter, we also have the possiblility of corrupt police investigations of other offences - how about he Steven Lawrence case? We alread know the corrupt police officers involved here, and this corruption led directly to those defendants getting off scott free.
Makes me now wonder about other incidents, how for example information about the Carlos Menezes shooting, after all, just about every single detail that was published in the media turned out to be wrong, but somehow leaked out anyway. What about the death of Ian Tomlinson, plenty of rubbish was published about him too, I think we have a situation where the Met and the press have been operating hand in glove with each other for mutual benefit for years, a bit of money here, a little bit of outright lying there to protect errant police officers.
I’ve seen a number of protests in London where numbers were seriously under reported, and yet got authoritive quote in the press, when the true numbers were visibly far larger.
I will also add, that no doubt all these ‘expenses’ were set against tax as ‘operating costs’, so in effect we have been paying for this behaviour.
Just as an aside, imagine if a really heinous offence had been committed, muder, rape, terrorist incident, and our criminal newspapers had illegal access to evidence - if they made this known to the authorities then is it possible that could invalidate the whole case? What would such a journalist do, keep it to themselves for fear of self incrimination, leak it, or find some way to profit by publishing this in some way?
We don’t allow people to buy child porn or stolen goods, and the same reasoning applies here. If someone is committing crimes because they know people will buy the product of those crimes, buying the product rewards them for committing the crime and ensures that they will continue to do so.
My favorite newspaper columnist was Mike Royko. I like this quote from the Wikipedia article on him:
In 1984, Rupert Murdoch, for whom Royko said he would never work, bought the Sun-Times. Royko commented that “No self-respecting fish would want to be wrapped in a Murdoch paper”, and “[H]is goal is not quality journalism. His goal is vast power for Rupert Murdoch, political power”.
Mine arrived a day late and I was gutted to see the cover was a fairly lame “William and Kate” affair. Too late to the party I suspect but what this does mean is that they have a full two weeks to put together a NI special. Could be a cracker. I have visions of Ian Hislop doubled up over his laptop slapping the desk. Barely able to type due to hysterical laughter.
This just keeps getting better and better…
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Care to offer some indication of what is in that link?
“Andy Coulson to be arrested over phone hacking tomorrow”
The Prime Minister’s former adviser (and it was recommended by political rivals in friendly fashion that he not be appointed), and the editor of the relevant newspaper during some of the gnarliest fuck-ups, may well be getting arrested tomorrow. Oh dear.
hahaaaaaa! brilliant, a particularly smarmy domino topples. Can the ginger one be far behind?
Will Coulson be offered incitements to spill the beans?
I must not miss “Newsnight” or “Question Time” tonight.
She will be in a car ‘accident’ or ‘commit suicide’ in the next month or so.
I agree this is embarrassing for the PM but…a big but…He did get rid of him. Just imagine the political fallout is he was still in position!
But you’d have to be some kind of megalomaniac, sociopath with access to untold wealth to arrange such a thing!
oh!
But he hired him in the first place right?
All this stuff happened 7 years ago, he must have been the editor then as well.
BBC reporting seven day Sun confirmed. Breathtaking cynicism.
Yeah but there’s also an existing newspaper The Sunday Sun. And while it’s little more than a local rag, it’s lawyers may have some concerns about a paper with a similar title.
Sorry misread your post. I see what you mean. Just ignore what I’ve said (most folk do:))
Is it common practice for the British police to reveal something like this in advance? I mean, if you announce that you’re going to arrest someone tomorrow, is there anything to prevent him from going to Buenos Aires tonight?