Balls and Brown should be on their knees apologising for their dire stewardship of the economy and regulation of the financial sector. It's bizarre reading the priorities of the amnesial Lefties in here, it really is. Yes, Cameron and Osbourne were stridently demanding a tightening of the clunking ...

Dunno if Tucker was lying through his teeth when he said that no ministers were pressuring him but he was certainly lying through his teeth when he said he had no idea about low balling.

I'll defend Murdoch. The UK print and digital media would be in a shit state w/out him. But most of all, as a sports fan, that beautiful guy changed my life. Sniff. As somebody who grew up generally in a family would couldn't afford sky, he took a shit load of sports away from me. And worse still h...

I'll defend Murdoch. The UK print and digital media would be in a shit state w/out him. But most of all, as a sports fan, that beautiful guy changed my life. Sniff. As somebody who grew up generally in a family would couldn't afford sky, he took a shit load of sports away from me. And worse still h...

I read this interview this morning and was struck by this: "There are billions and billions of dollars, and if Britain didn't want 'em, there are plenty of good places to put them here [in the US]. I'm much more bullish about America than I am about England," he added. "I would be a lot more reluct...

I dont really get the anger Murdoch generates. He may well be an absolute cock, but who cares. If he or his businesses have engaged in illegal behaviour then hopefully they will be prosecuted. As for everything else - if politicians choose to cosy up to him that's just as much their fault. If his p...

I dont really get the anger Murdoch generates. He may well be an absolute cock, but who cares. If he or his businesses have engaged in illegal behaviour then hopefully they will be prosecuted. As for everything else - if politicians choose to cosy up to him that's just as much their fault. If his p...

Rinkals wrote:

zzzz wrote:I'll defend Murdoch.

The UK print and digital media would be in a shit state w/out him. But most of all, as a sports fan, that beautiful guy changed my life. Sniff.

Couldn't have done it without Thatcher, though.

Now I'm getting a stiffy.

I'll defend Murdoch.

The UK print and digital media would be in a shit state w/out him. But most of all, as a sports fan, that beautiful guy changed my life. Sniff.

I'm not sure you could have made my point better. I'm afarid I find that just to be the usual faux-charitable, politics that irritates me. As to whether it should be regulated against, I don't know. I think there is a lot of other more flagrant abuse of the charity rules. Equally, as long as furthe...

This is very timely. http://www.iea.org.uk/blog/how-the-government-uses-charities-to-lobby-itself How the government uses charities to lobby itself Chris Snowdon 11 June 2012 2008 represented something of a milestone for Britain’s charity sector as it was the year in which it received more money fro...

I'm not sure you could have made my point better. I'm afarid I find that just to be the usual faux-charitable, politics that irritates me. As to whether it should be regulated against, I don't know. I think there is a lot of other more flagrant abuse of the charity rules. Equally, as long as furthe...

The problem is the public policy role that charities increasingly seek. Now I can see why if you are, say, a charity dedicated to poverty it is tempting to view your remit as including addressing the causes of poverty. But it's pretty short-sighted. Ultimately that will lead you towards trying to b...

The problem is the public policy role that charities increasingly seek. Now I can see why if you are, say, a charity dedicated to poverty it is tempting to view your remit as including addressing the causes of poverty. But it's pretty short-sighted. Ultimately that will lead you towards trying to b...

The problem is the public policy role that charities increasingly seek. Now I can see why if you are, say, a charity dedicated to poverty it is tempting to view your remit as including addressing the causes of poverty. But it's pretty short-sighted. Ultimately that will lead you towards trying to be...

Oxfam UK job advert - love the bottom line Job Profile Digital Communications Manager Oxford £35,400 - £44,460 (+ market supplement) Closing date: 17 June 2012 Interview: w/c 25 June 2012 Senior level digital specialist required to provide strategic and operational support to the Head of Digital Co...

I think that the saddest, and probably most disturbing issue about the reactions of people like Bill, FA and Coog is that in the developed countries where these guys live, there is very little impact being felt from climate change. However these countries are the ones that have been creating the mo...

For a number, 100 million ADDITIONAL people have gone hungry since 2008, due to changing climate.

Bullshit.

Slider wrote:Referee: Steve Walsh (Australia)
Assistant referees: Alain Rolland (Ireland), Simon McDowell (Ireland)
Television match official: Iain Ramage (Scotland)

fudge.

There better be more than one mirror in the Officials' dressing room.

Clanger wrote:

Sefton wrote:Honestly ladies, it looks a little desperate to be using internecine battles within the Labour Party as a means to discredit the report, dreadful case of playing the man.

When its all you have Seft.....

You guys need to read up a bit. McBride was the beauty behind "Red Rag".

Of course this would be the same Tom watson that was branded: "disloyal, discourteous and wrong" by a former Labour PM... Okay it was teflon but it was during the campaign where they were desperate to oust him and crown Gordo Watson was at the center of the dirty tricks group being run by Damien Mc...

I remember being told that 'you can't fart in one of Murdoch's newsrooms without the great man getting a whiff of it'. He was so "hands on"..... Now he's being portrayed as this elderly, semi-senile, afternoon Bingo and sweet cuppa tea fool, who couldn't possibly know or "have wind" of what goes on...

interesting: Who is lying over the decision to target Rupert Murdoch as unfit to run News Corp? By David Hughes Politics Last updated: May 2nd, 2012 31 Comments Comment on this article Louise Mensch Louise Mensch: adamant that there was no discussion of the "fit and proper" statement Someone isn’t ...

Well quite. I think we were all shocked by the hacking revelations and relieved that at last something was happening about it. Speak for yourself. It never crossed my mind that they (and lets be fair every other tablod) weren't hacking. To misquote somewhat, it's the unspeakable in pursuit of the g...

I'm struggling to get my head around a bunch MP's deciding who is or is not fit to run a multinational company. What experience do they have to make such a judgement? I have no love for Murdoch but this report pretty much places this whole episode into the witch-hunt category . What was the f**king...

Apparently the Tories think that Watson has hijacked the whole show. Lot of pointed comments off the record about confidential info from the Committee stage being in his book. I've never understood why anyone genuflects before the opinion of any parliamentary committee. They're just a bunch of amate...