This week's events a short distance from here, in a place that I know very well indeed, seem to mirror the ongoing collapse at least of Rupert Murdoch's British operation. Times are tough even for the most entrenched and overt of organised crime families and syndicates.
Why has Murdoch not been declared persona no grata from the United Kingdom? How is a man who gave a job to Andy Coulson still Prime Minister, or even in public life at all? Why does Andy Hayman still hold any gongs that he might have been awarded during or at the end of a Police career which included being wined and dined by the company that he was investigating and which now employs him? And so on, and on, and on. Still, there is time yet. When the trials come, think of them as the trials of the Murdoch Empire's beloved satraps: Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair and George W Bush. Any juror who ever disagreed with anything done by any of those three ought to vote to convict. That should take care of matters more than comfortably. One lives in hope that at some point Blair will be charged, tried and imprisoned as an accessory.
We now have the opportunity to take back The Times and the Sunday Times for the nation, to get rid of the Sun and the News of the World in anything like their present forms, to restore the Mirror Group titles to the seriousness that they manifested before they had to deal with such competition, and to give Sky News Independent National Directors elected by and from among Sky subscribers, with a Chairman appointed by the Secretary of State with the approval of the relevant Select Committee. Cross-subsidy being what it is, they might even double up as the Independent National Directors of The Times and the Sunday Times.
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They thought the world of your father and for his sake would happily have donated enough via your anonymous PayPal button to fund your parliamenary campaign even if it had not been against their archenemy Hilary Armstrong.
ReplyDeleteI am not talking about the Murdochs.
Many years ago, when we had had a break in, their patriarch, now recently deceased, offered to sort out the matter. My father politely declined. But we have still never recovered a thing.
ReplyDeleteThey would never have targetted the Vicarage, in the same way that they would never target the old folks and so on. I am not excusing their many terrible faults, but the void will now be filled, and we do not yet know by what or by whom.
Bringing us back to Murdoch. On whom all further comments, please.
They should hold the trials in Liverpool, with local juries.
ReplyDeleteNotice the near total lack of media coverage of today's third arrest. Everybody not employed by Murdoch wants to be and nobody dares mess with the man who owns both main parties and the Old Bill.
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