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It’s the cover up that gets them
In the court papers of the Charlotte Church case against News International (NI) we now have proof that senior NI executives decided that emails should be deleted in order not to be used against them in court. To their shame NI put Church’s mother under pressure in order to force Charlotte to settle out of [...]
First impressions are often correct
I suspect if there was an objective way of checking if first impressions were correct, the result would be massively positive. Over my far too many years one impression I have learned to respect is the one where I feel if my wallet is still in my back pocket as the then present company strikes [...]
Is James Murdoch on the lam?
Rupert Murdoch promises to spend the next three months in Britain launching his replacement for the disgraced News of the World and supporting the Sun’s beleaguered journalists. The latter is not a very easy balancing act as he has also set up an operation to turn those same journalists over to the police. The whole [...]
Being nice to a Tory
Having just been rather rude about the appearance of a Tory minister below I think I will now be nice to a Tory MP. David Ruffley has an interesting article in the Daily Telegraph where he looks at why we haven’t come to terms with the bankers and the catastrophe they produced. He even looks [...]
The greed’s still there
Thanks to the Daily Telegraph buying the purloined MP expenses CD we found out just how many of our politicians followed the ‘Greed is Good’ line from the 1970s. Now we are beginning to see how the very topmost layer of our civil service was quite happy to follow it also. Last year the porcine [...]
A few more downstairs
It’s good to know Cameron’s government is taking care of all sections of society including its own. Saw on the Telegraph’s website their idea to give employers of maids, gardeners, cleaners and such a tax break for having domestic staff. Of course they are doing this so more servants can be employed rather than to [...]
Some people get it
I know I harp on about income disparity and how it has widened since the mid-seventies. There are others who do see this as the major problem in society today, and not least of these are those attending Davos this year. Listen to Gillian Tett of the Financial Times talking about this on BBC’s This [...]
Peter Oborne Again
Yes I know he is an extremely conservative man working for an extremely conservative newspaper but at times I just can’t help agreeing with him. I have nothing in common with him, yet his sense of disgust at our some of our new political class endears him to me. Below I’m going to paste a [...]
Can Ed Miliband learn from Obama
The Obama presidency has looked in trouble for more than a year. The Republicans have blocked any attempt he makes to get some growth back into the economy and his recent actions and attitude have been that of a beaten man. He was getting blasted with much the same conservative rhetoric as Ed Miliband has [...]
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