For 40 years, Rupert Murdoch has been treated as the Head of this State. But he is not.
No one expects Ipso, or anything else, to find against the person whom the Sun-reading Alf Garnett used to call "Her Actual Majesty the Queen".
So The Sun is going down. Taking with it its proprietor's influence in, on and over Her Actual Majesty's United Kingdom.
We all thought that it would be Hillsborough. And it would have been. If this had not happened in the meantime.
The complaint won't get anywhere. Particularly because those involved haven't even denied it.
ReplyDeleteOn another note, it's sad to see Winston Churchill's grandson utterly misrepresenting-or misunderstanding-his grandfathers vision of Europe to justify a Remain vote.
Jean Monnet was openly scornful of Churchill's vision of a mere Council of Ministers and instead envisaged a complete political union with its own courts, Constitution, foreign policy, criminal justice system, asylum and immigration policy and single currency.
Monnet's vision won out over Churchill's, as brilliantly described in Christopher Booker's The Great Deception which Soames plainly hasn't read.
The Sun is standing firm-and has even more evidence than it has published.
ReplyDeleteThe Guardian reports: ""The paper’s editor, Tony Gallagher, robustly stood by the paper’s story on Wednesday that the Queen had vented her anger during a lunch at Windsor Castle in 2011, and suggested she had voiced similar views on at least one other occasion.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Thursday, Gallagher said: “We knew much more than we published, and that remains the case.
There is not just one occasion when these views were aired. There was a second occasion when she expressed similarly scathing views about the EU at Buckingham Palace.”
Of course.
How can the Queen be both the Sovereign, and just another EU citizen?
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/mar/10/queen-voiced-eurosceptic-eu-views-more-than-once-sun-editor
The Sun will win the case. Mark my words.
ReplyDeleteIt has even more evidence than it's published-as was clear from Tony Gallagher's interview on the BBC.
That was obvious. They wouldn't dream of running a front-pager if they didn't.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Thursday, Tony Gallagher said: “We knew much more than we published, and that remains the case. There is not just one occasion when these views were aired. There was a second occasion when she expressed similarly scathing views about the EU at Buckingham Palace.”
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/mar/10/queen-voiced-eurosceptic-eu-views-more-than-once-sun-editor
Well done to Tony Gallagher of The Sun for confirming why we need a free press.
ReplyDelete“The fact that the story is inconvenient for a good number of people is not my fault. We serve our readers, not the elite who might be upset at what we’ve written.
We are completely confident that the Queen’s views were expressed exactly as we’ve outlined in both the headline and the story.”
Indeed.
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