Rebekah Brooks to be charged with perverting the course of justice

Auntfanny · 8 days

Apparently courts takes perverting the course of justice very seriously. No community sentences if found guilty - it's jail.

Guillam · 8 days

A few years ago, Antonin Scalia, one of the nine justices on the US supreme court, made a bold statement. There has not been, he said, "a single case – not one – in which it is clear that a person was executed for a crime he did not commit. If such an event had occurred … the innocent's name would be shouted from the rooftops."

Scalia may have to eat his words.

Guillam · 13 days

"The judicial police national unit for combating corruption, part of the Justice Ministry based in Lisbon, is investigating the 11 August, 2010 transfer, by which United paid that fee for a player whose only competitive experience was a single season in the Portuguese third division."

Guillam · 16 days

Senior consultant at defence analysis firm: "Giving them any autonomy is going to be complicated in terms of technical developments, such as the software, and legally allowing a fighter without a human being in it to launch a weapon and kill someone,"

RickyAcid · 16 days

What a brilliant piece this is, and how scathingly accurate on media hypocrisy on the issue.

Guillam · 16 days

I totally, totally agree.

"Bank holidays are part of the ever-tightening vortex of contemporary misery"

Guillam · 22 days

The fallout from this is already extraordinary with Conservative MP Louise Mensch saying they couldn't back the report because of the line on Murdoch.

Guillam · 22 days

"The Commons culture, media and sport select committee also concluded that James Murdoch showed "wilful ignorance" of the extent of phone hacking during 2009 and 2010 – in a highly charged document that saw MPs split on party lines as regards the two Murdochs."

The full report is here (pdf): http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201012/cmselect/cmcumeds/903/903i.pdf

MrHappyMan · 28 days

Now it seems Jeremy Hunt while Shadow culture minister visited News Corp for five days as the BSkyB deal was being decided... and just after that James Murdoch visited Cameron to tell him News Corp would back the Tories

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/apr/25/jeremy-hunt-news-corp-bskyb

Guillam · 28 days

Scotland Yard is calling for the investigation into Madeleine McCann's disappearance to be reopened, as detectives revealed there is evidence to suggest she might be alive.

Madeleine's ninth birthday is on 12 May. She disappeared from a Portuguese resort on May 3 2007.

Guillam · 29 days

On the eve of one key government announcement in March 2011, Frédéric Michel, the chief lobbyist for James Murdoch, who was leading the News Corp bid, emailed his boss excitedly at 3am: "Urgent. JH decision … He is minded to accept … and will release around 7.30am to the market".

In what could be one of the most damning exchanges, Michel wrote of Hunt: "He said we would get there in the end and he shared our objectives".

What made this busy back-channel particularly remarkable was that the culture secretary was constantly claiming no such relationship existed.

Guillam

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