It turns out that Rebekah Brooks knew absolutely nothing about what was going on at the newspaper of which she was Editor. What a vindication of her.
The Guardian might repeat the charges against her and defy her to pursue it through the civil courts. But leaving the matter at "she was hopeless at her job" pretty much suffices.
Following the "Team Nigella" incident, this is David Cameron's second contempt of court. What does he have to do in order to be banged up, as anyone else would be? He has now caused a mistrial.
The Prime Minister has also repeatedly lied to Parliament today, by claiming that the then Sir Gus O'Donnell had been involved in the appointment of Andy Coulson.
As for Damian McBride, he was deep vetted for a much lowlier position than Coulson was given without such examination.
Cameron simply has to go.
Rupert Murdoch is celebrating tonight.
ReplyDeleteAs for those "celebrities" it turns out they are attention seeking hypocrites.
And we now know the Guardian lied about the story that brought down the NOTW.
Dowler's voicemails were never hacked.
Meanwhile that great champion of freedom Index on Censorship has been threatened and denied funding by Sir David Bell and the sinister gang trying to censor Britain's press, due to its honourable stance on press freedom.
This vile gang must be stopped at all costs.
You sound bitter.
ReplyDeleteYour vile crowd lost today.
Get over it.
You've finally lost it.
ReplyDeleteMurdoch to be interviewed under caution. So he is not a witness, but a suspect.
It's all over.
I wasn't talking about Murdoch. He should be prosecuted.
ReplyDeleteIt was the rest I was referring to.
The disturbing campaign against Index On Censorship in particular.
ReplyDeleteThis vile sinister crew can and will be beaten.
Why did Lindsay get banned from Durham, the Speccie, the Telegraph, the Graun, Prospect.....
ReplyDeleteI didn't. In fact, I am sitting at a University computer in the shadow of Durham Cathedral at this very moment.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy prison.
Mr L is academic/management staff, you fool. He WRITES for those places!
ReplyDeleteWell, I have never written for The Spectator. But I have for the others. And for others again. On both sides of the Atlantic.
ReplyDeleteOn topic, please.
Don't forget the London Progerssive journal alongside Bryan Gould!
ReplyDeleteAmong others. And Bryan is now International Patron of the One Nation Society.
ReplyDeleteI must get back in touch with the LPJ about something, actually.
But anyway, on topic, please.
I knew you wouldn't publish anything on this while the trial was ongoing, like you never put anything up about an election while the polls are open. You are a true old pro.
ReplyDeleteThat little boy at 19.59 must be feeling very red-faced by now!
ReplyDeleteThe mail editorial-excoriating David Cameron and Rupert Murdoch, and defending a free press-is utterly brilliant today.
ReplyDeleteThe Mail writes;
""Since 2011, the Met alone has spent almost £33million on Press-related inquiries – well over 40 per cent of its annual budget for Homicide Command – while at one point 195 officers were diverted from graver crimes.
Add the costs of the eight-month trial, and the bill comes to well over £100million.
Yet even after this massive effort and expense, the CPS assembled a case so threadbare it could prove only one charge out of 14 denied by seven defendants.
Meanwhile, at least 12 more trials are in the pipeline, involving up to 40 accused. They are among 96 journalists arrested since 2011 – many in melodramatic dawn raids....their careers in limbo
Which brings us to the chilling role played by the Prime Minister in turning what should have been a routine crime investigation, confined mainly to one company, into a frenzied assault on the wider newspaper industry.
As Mr Justice Saunders reminded the jury this week, David Cameron’s pretext for launching the Leveson Inquiry – a Guardian report that journalists had deleted Milly Dowler’s voicemail messages – was without foundation.
All too clearly, however, his real motive was to divert attention from his own gross misjudgement in appointing Andy Coulson as his director of communications (with clearance from that serial blunderer, Jeremy Heywood, since promoted to Cabinet Secretary).
He did this, against strong advice from senior figures in the media and politics, in a naked bid to cosy up to Mr Murdoch’s empire (though he should take no sermons from Labour, after Tony Blair’s abject courtship of the mogul).""
Indeed-in a world of tyranny and censorship, David Cameron's most evil legacy would be the end of 300 years of pride in the world's only truly free press.
It was always going to be the most confused of the lot by all of this. And it is.
ReplyDeleteThat perfect editorial sums up the whole disgusting saga in one.
ReplyDeleteIt was an unholy alliance between a Prime Minister trying to divert attention to save his skin, a corrupt police (who've spent almost as much on this as on homicide enquiries) a sinister group of press-hating Left-wing tyrants, and personally debauched celebrities.
None of them could care less about 300 years of British liberty.
They only cared about themselves.
The Mail just doesn't know whom to hate more on this one. It is not alone in that. But it was always going to be the first among those in that position.
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