NOTW Hacking [spoiler]

I seem to have fallen through a wormhole in the space-time continuum, and landed in an alternate reality where the United Kingdom is a borderline banana republic ruled by newspaper magnates.

Does anyone know how I get back?

to be honest its all so depressing i think the only person you could say you trust is vince cable.

On Saturday 2 July, Rupert Murdoch’s daughter Elisabeth and her millionaire PR husband Matthew Freud hosted a party at their 22-bedroom mansion in the Cotswolds.
Michael Gove, the education secretary, was there. So was David Cameron’s consigliere Steve Hilton, and the culture minister Ed Vaizey. The Labour figures in attendance included Peter Mandelson, the ex-work and pensions secretary James Purnell, the shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander – and his shadow cabinet colleague Tessa Jowell, who reportedly arrived with her supposedly estranged husband David Mills.

They were joined by David Miliband – who, let us not forget, was supported in his quest for the Labour leadership by the entire Murdoch stable of newspapers. Robert Peston was glimpsed in deep conversation with Will Lewis, News International’s general manager. The BBC’s director general Mark Thompson turned up, along with Alan Yentob, Jon Snow from Channel 4 News, Bear Grylls, Mariella Frostrup, Lily Allen and Patrick Kielty. And what a time they had: thanks to Nick Jones, the owner of the members-only Soho House club and husband of Desert Island Discs’ Kirsty Young, two marquees had been turned into pop-up versions of his London reaturants, Cecconi’s and Pizza East, and drinking and dancing went on until 4am.
Also among the guests was James Murdoch, who spent much of the night talking intently to Rebekah Brooks – whose behaviour that night was said to be somewhat uncharacteristic. “Usually, Rebekah flits around having a word with everyone,” one witness told the Daily Mail. “She loves being the centre of attention. But that night, she spent nearly all her time with News International people.” The following Monday, when plenty of the revellers must still have been feeling groggy, the Guardian ran the story by Nick Davies and Amelia Hill about Milly Dowler’s phone being hacked.

Lots of fun in the evidence so far – people blaming each other and contradicting each other.

10 ex NI employees out of 45 in the press office of the met.

Loads of ” i didn’t know that” to stuff they really should have. yates seemed to get off lightly so far tho

Anybody else watching or listening to the grilling. It is delicious. Awkwardly delicious.

I’m listening….. met guys seemed to get a proper grilling 🙂

flicking in and out of it – its great.

Ed Llewellyn will be the next to resign is my bet – he is being blamed for Camerons lack of knowledge of all the dodgy stuff as he refused to tell Cameron

Murdoch Snr truly wishes he was somewhere else right now…. seems to have no answers.

Do we thing this is an act by RM? if him and his son knew nothing then the interview with brooks could, could be a belter.

Bet Cameron is shitting his pants at the minute.

James Murdoch comes across quite well actually – doing all he can to take as many questions as possible to protect his father.

Am quite impressed with the candor of both the Murdochs at the committee.
They are doing what I wish our politicians would do, answering questions.

avoiding prevaricating and obfusticating IMO at best.

Good PR and appearance but not really candid

cameron will be fine the select comitee are all gentle and nice with the murdochs a marked change compared to stephenson and yates’ grilling earlier
it looks to me that mps are still in thrall to the murdochs on this dispaly

and i dont believe murdoch srs grandpa simpson impresion for minute we all know hes mr burns
and if either of them says 1 more time they were surprised or shocked by the revelations and the ongoing coverup and legal battles someone should give em both a slap

although yates earlier mentioning of downing street not wanting to be briefed on the phone hacking case so they would have plausible deniability or whatever the term is?

Here they are:

10 September 2010: John Yates to Ed Llewellyn:

Ed,

Hope all well.

I am coming over to see the PM at 12.30 today regarding [redacted: national security] matters. I am very happy to have a conversation in the margins around the other matters that have caught my attention this week if you thought it would be useful.

Best wishes,

John

Response: 10 September 2010: Ed Llewellyn to John Yates:

John –

Thanks – all well.

On the other matters that have caught your attention this week, assuming we are thinking of the same thing, I am sure you will understand that we will want to be able to be entirely clear, for your sake and ours, that we have not been in contact with you about this subject.

So I don’t think it would really be appropriate for the PM, or anyone else at No 10, to discuss this issue with you, and would be grateful if it were not raised please.

But the PM looks forward to seeing you, with Peter Ricketts and Jonathan Evans, purely on [redacted: national security] matters at 1230.

With best wishes,

Ed

pm in major ass covering exercise or just standard procedure?

edit

Snap Kimbers!

That Llewellyn resignation right there!

Rupe just dropped Brooks in it

, is is possible that the editors did not know what was going on?

RM replies:

I cannot say that because of the police inquiries.

🙄

I think it also shows how bad the MP’s are at asking questions.

That was certainly a cutting swipe about Gordon!

Getting a bit rattled now

What happened?

Some mad woman just attacked Murdoch!

Booger, missed that, what happened???

lol…wtf?

Erm…security?!

Good God this has it all – what next FFS.

Dunno, was reading this thread and just heard the commotion.

was only listening, who what where?

4.54pm: Someone has just tried to attack Rupert Murdoch. His wife Wendi seemed to slap the person

LOL @ sharkbait 😀

portculis house, line 4, the wilson room? wtf?

Lucy Liu attacked a custard pie ninja I think.

He’s got white stuff all over his face.

Cream pie?

Someones in A LOT of trouble.

😯

Yes, Wendy takes a flying swipe at someone off camera.

mad man

i did wonder who that fit bird doing the sharon stone leg thing in teh background was, turns out it was his wife!

Cream pie or humble pie?

Heh.

4.57pm: The suspect looks like he has a substance like white paint on his face.

My colleague Jackie Ashley tells Twitter: “Wendi [Murdoch’s wife] can throw quite a punch.”

getting a bit exciting now, poor sports turning the camera away, very poor

well looks like a member of the public has done what the mps havent been