Marf on the Brooks resignation
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What will Rebekah’s going do to the story?
SkyNews Will it take some of the heat off the Murdochs?
How’ll politics be changed with Murdoch being tamed?
Could Ken Clarke be an early beneficiary? With the Murdoch empire now tied up with inquiries on both sides of the Atlantic it is hard to see how what has been a huge influence in UK politics continuing to have the same potency. To take one example just look at what’s happened to the justice secretary, Ken Clarke, in the last couple of months as he’s sought to question and bring change to the penal system. Against the background of…
Marf on the continuing troubles for the Murdochs
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What can we tell about Dave from his handling of the scandal?
Why was he so slow off the mark? Now we’ve moved from the the first frenetic stage of the hacking scandal perhaps this might be the moment to reflect on how the main players have handled it and what we’ve seen tells us about their strengths and weaknesses. I thought Numbertwelve summed Cameron up well in this post that was on the previous thread:- “….His main failing, in my view, is an inability to prepare or respond to events until…
The dramatic day continues….
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Is this the start of the Murdoch fight-back?
Can other attackers expect the same treatment? After a week and half of News International being battered over the hacking allegations the Sun responds furiously this morning to the claims by the former PM, Gordon Brown, that the medical records of his son, Fraser had been hacked into. It writes:“THE Sun today exposes the allegation that we hacked into Gordon Brown’s family medical records as FALSE and a smear. We discovered the ex-PM’s four-year-old son Fraser had cystic fibrosis months…
Who could have predicted this 9 days ago?
Guardian Is there now cross-party consensus on hacking? Events in the hacking scandal have moved at a breath-taking pace and this evening the three main party leaders, Cameron/Clegg/Miliband, are meeting to start to hammer out to discuss the terms of reference of the two inquiries into the multiplying scandals. Tomorrow’s debate will be on a Labour motion that “The house believes that it is in the public interest for Rupert Murdoch and News Corporation to withdraw their bid for BSky.”…