No-one is innocent / Where's Paul Dacre now?
I generally stay away from blog-type news commentary, because Loud, Confident and Wrong aren't just a mob of incompetent solicitors. However, watching Hugh Grant and Steve Coogan wade in and administer a shoeing has been an unwholesomely gleeful experience, although tempered with the wish that it was actually the Party of Labour who'd gone 'Oh, fuck this for a game of soldiers' and waded in to News International. On the other hand, that which is called the Labour party aren't the sort of alleged socialists for which I could bring myself to vote. Far too busy in latter years toadying to t'City and t'Tabloid Press to be anything other than an embarrassment to the name. Thus it's a bit of a surprise to discover that the Party of Capital are the ones looking for someone to hold their coat.
On the other hand, Murdoch (aka 'The dirty digger' if you're old enough to remember that) and The Establishment really haven't ever got on. (That's a link to a fine Adam Curtis item from the start of the year) It would surprise me not at all to discover that one or other part of the Tory machine is quite partial to the idea of 'putting the blighter in his place'. Although they're probably all dead by now.
The other jolly interesting thing mentioned by that there Coogan is the Information Commissioner's report 'What price privacy now?' from 2006. It's available as a PDF from the relevant govt. website, but the BBC have a handy chart right here. In there we discover that the News of the Screws paid for 182 dodgy lookups, the Observer 103, and the Daily Fail... 952. I shall be only mildly pleased if we're all back here in a few weeks and it's Dacre being doorstepped. Couldn't happen to a nicer chap, etc.
On the other hand, Murdoch (aka 'The dirty digger' if you're old enough to remember that) and The Establishment really haven't ever got on. (That's a link to a fine Adam Curtis item from the start of the year) It would surprise me not at all to discover that one or other part of the Tory machine is quite partial to the idea of 'putting the blighter in his place'. Although they're probably all dead by now.
The other jolly interesting thing mentioned by that there Coogan is the Information Commissioner's report 'What price privacy now?' from 2006. It's available as a PDF from the relevant govt. website, but the BBC have a handy chart right here. In there we discover that the News of the Screws paid for 182 dodgy lookups, the Observer 103, and the Daily Fail... 952. I shall be only mildly pleased if we're all back here in a few weeks and it's Dacre being doorstepped. Couldn't happen to a nicer chap, etc.