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Leveson press reform buried alive by the Tories.

TheDecameron

TheDecameron

Unicorns fart glitter.
Snake oil merchant Hancock is on his feet in The Commons defending the dismissal of the very enquiry his party commissioned- because they and their backers didn’t like what it found when the stone was turned over. In a breath taking act of hypocrisy, he claims the tabloids he seeks to shelter from scrutiny “hold the powerful to account”. It’s as if Hillsborough and their other victims had never existed.
 
Disgusting isn't it.

The far-right press peddle Tory lies. The Tories let them get on with it because it suits them.

Matthew Hancock is a slimeball.
 
ff1d1l said:
I'm ambivalent over Levison. Its implementation would probably destroy Private Eye, at least they claim so - and I like Private Eye.
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PE are worried by the legal changes which have already been enacted, and which can lead to other things without anything more being reported by Levison.

"Levison 2" wasn't about the regulation schemes. It was a chance for a judge under court priviledge to produce a detailed report showing what he had really found out about the behavour of the scum-sheets. In effect, he would have been able to describe their behaviour in full. This was held back for fear of 'predjudicing' the many court actions people have been making against the scum. Camaroooon gave a promise that "Levison 2" *would* happen... must have slipped what little mind he has.

I've been wondering if, as a judge, Levison could *still* release it and that a decision by someone else that decides otherwise is something he could 'consider but reject'. Or if someone else could go though the courts to have it released. No doubt the scum would brand them "enemies of the people".
 
Jim
just remember the Judiciary are part of the establishment
remember all of the killings by plod that have been found not guilty so don't expect any great change of direction here.
oldie
 
Jim Audiomisc said:
PE are worried by the legal changes which have already been enacted
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And which the government has (rightly) said it won't implement, and will seek to repeal:

'Mr Hancock also announced that the government would not put Section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act - which would force media organisations to pay legal costs of libel cases whether they won or lost - into effect and said they would seek repeal "at the earliest opportunity".'
 
Seanm said:
Mostly lizards.

This is good:

https://www.theguardian.com/news/20...hment-finally-finished?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Good article, almost makes you nostalgic for the old "Etonian" establishment.

“Gradually the classics and humanities people got replaced,” said Turnbull. “When I arrived we used to have people who were experts on Byron and musicians – rather refined people. Then, rather hard-nosed economists gradually took over, and the dominant culture became football and golf, rather than music.”
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Very interesting letter from Gordon Brown requesting the criminal investigation into News Group be reopened:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1786096268650926252

“Exclusive: former prime minister Gordon Brown has written to the Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley calling for a second criminal phone-hacking investigation into News Group Newspapers, namely into the alleged “destruction of evidence by the organisation and the cover up that followed” (see attached). News Group Newspapers, owner of the Sun and previous owner of the defunct News of the World, said “Mr Brown’s allegations are unfounded and wrong” and “they are denied by NGN in a detailed defence for the court”” Robert Peston.
 
Worth copying the text of Brown’s letter in full (at least as well as iPadOS OCR can manage, I always have to reformat everything manually!):

”Dear Commissioner Rowley,

I am writing to draw your attention to new and important evidence that has come to light on the phone hacking scandal.

This new evidence concerns the concealment and destruction of up to 30 million emails, hard drives and documents by News Group Newspapers during a previous police investigation into this matter.

May I draw your attention to recent news articles published by Nick Davis in Prospect Magazine yesterday. Those articles provide new information over the timing and motive behind the deletion of those emails and also of the creation of a cover up seemingly incriminating me in an alleged conspiracy to obtain documents unlawfully.

Evidence given to the police by the company suggests that I and Lord Watson were conspiring with one of their employees to hand over emails to me. Such an accusation of theft and bribery is completely untrue but this shocking and disturbing new information, which undermines the company's previous public defence that emails were destroyed as a matter of routine, requires, in my view, the opening of a new criminal investigation into the destruction of evidence by the organisation and the cover up that followed.

I would be grateful for the opportunity to meet you on this matter.

Yours sincerely,



Gordon Brown”

Here is the Prospect article to which Brown referrs:

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

How Murdoch’s company magicked away 31 million emails

A powerful media empire was required to preserve evidence of illegal spying. Instead, it went on a deletion spree. Now claims of an astonishing cover-...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
 
Sounds like the Windrush report.
It started at circa 279 pages, within which was quite a lot of detail.
It then went through 4 reviews until it was sufficiently watered down to try to move the blame away from the people who generated and introduced the Hostile Environment policy, ie Theresa May, with Cameron’s backing.
 
The criminal Murdoch enterprise has never been fully brought to justice. Various goons have been convicted in court but the organ grinder has remained untouchable. Rebbekkaahh Brooks got an £11m payoff from the Australian cadaver then was sneaked in through the back door again as CEO of his corrupt U.K. operation. Her lover of six years went down while her husband got off by explaining his laptop which he binned didn’t contain incriminating evidence, just embarrassing lesbian porn.
The only major success was the near $1bn payout to Dominion Voting Systems after Fox libelled them.
 
ks.234 said:
Corrupt politics needs a corrupt media.

Brown would never write such a letter if he was seeking power.

If we want a better media, we need better politicians.
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Chicken, meet egg. Egg, meet chicken.

The above loop has no exit condition specified.
 
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