You Are the Parasite Jim Sheridan | Speccie
Ban “Parasite” Journalists from Parliament | Jim "Expenses Crook" Sheridan MP
Google Glass Is Orwell 2.0 | Nick Pickles
The World is a Better Place Without Saddam | Telegraph
Mosley Says Cut Wires to Bloggers | HuffPo
Pickles Pub Puzzle | London Loves Business
Introducing OfBlog | Archbishop Cranmer
Everyone Should Quit the NUJ | Peter Oborne
Guido Rejects Regulation | Guardian
Telegraph Deputy Editor: Thanks But No Thanks | MediaGuido
A Dark Day for Britain | Sun
Ban “Parasite” Journalists from Parliament | Jim "Expenses Crook" Sheridan MP
Google Glass Is Orwell 2.0 | Nick Pickles
The World is a Better Place Without Saddam | Telegraph
Mosley Says Cut Wires to Bloggers | HuffPo
Pickles Pub Puzzle | London Loves Business
Introducing OfBlog | Archbishop Cranmer
Everyone Should Quit the NUJ | Peter Oborne
Guido Rejects Regulation | Guardian
Telegraph Deputy Editor: Thanks But No Thanks | MediaGuido
A Dark Day for Britain | Sun
TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 2013
Hacked Off Funded By Billionaire Russian Oligarch
Before the Culture Media and Sport Select Committee this morning, representatives from Hacked Off refused to comment on Guido’s exposing of their donors. They got a comprehensive kicking from most of the MPs present though:
The elite club of multi-millionaires with an axe to grind have confirmed however that they are “due to receive soon a grant from the Journalism Foundation of over £20,000″. The Journalism Foundation was former Indyeditor-in-chief Simon Kelner’s £600,000 vanity project bankrolled by billionaire Russian oligarchs and Indy owners Alexander and Evgeny Lebedev. The former KGB agent set up the Foundation to promote “free and independent journalism”, pulling the plug on it after less than a year.Seemingly not before they channelled a chunk of the cash to those freedom lovers Hacked Off…
Fourteen Tory rebels said no to exemplary damages in the Commons last night:
Got that?
- Richard Bacon
- Christopher Chope
- Tracey Crouch
- Philip Davies
- Nick de Bois
- Andrew Percy
- Mark Reckless
- John Redwood
- Andrew Turner
- Martin Vickers
- Charles Walker
- Sarah Wollaston
- Richard Drax
- Jacob Rees Mogg
Got that?
Graphic via Mail.
The Word of GOD
Former Cabinet Secretary Gus O’Donnell told theDaily Politics last week that “we need to be proud of our Civil Service – it’s impartial, it’s objective, it’s honest”. GOD had been confronted with a bruising column from Thursday’s Telegraph that attacked a mid-ranking Civil Servant who had addressed the weekly meeting of Permanent Secretaries, known in the trade as “Wednesday Morning Colleagues”.Gus reassured the BBC that he “would be very annoyed about that particular meeting [leaking]” and said although it “happens every week” it“never, ever gets out…”. Really Gus? Never, ever?
Back in April 2010 the FT recounted comments from exactly that meeting. Sue Cameron was leaked a snippet from the “regular Wednesday morning meetings”. She was told that “Sir Gus O’Donnell, the present cabinet secretary, gave his colleagues a solemn undertaking. If Prime Minister Gordon Brown is forced to resign after the election, Sir Gus will not be breaking into tears”. How very impartial.
A few months later Sue Cameron was leaked another poisonous attack. This particular piece recounts how Sir Gus “demanded an explanation [over some matter] from Mr Heywood at the mandarins’ regular Wednesday morning meeting”. Gus came out of this piece frightfully well while Sir Jeremy was left rather bruised. Yes, Gus those meetings never, ever, ever leak do they? What was that about honesty…
Video via @liarpoliticians
MONDAY, MARCH 18, 2013
New Statesman Officially More Evil Than North Korea
Sabre-rattling nuke nut Kim Jong-Un might be threatening to annihilate his enemies, but at least he and his communist friends pay their interns. North Korea News is advertising on W4MP for a part-time editor to carry out online housekeeping such as uploading content and, er, “fact-checking”. Unlike the poor, exploited unpaid interns over at the Staggers‘ progressive workhouse, the successful candidate will earn $500-a-month. It’s official…Hacked Off Donors: #6 Billionaire Labour Lord Sainsbury
Last but not least of the cabal of millionaires who have donated to Hacked Off is Lord Sainsbury. A life peer with a net worth of £1.3 billion, Sainsbury has been a major financial backer of the Labour Party, forking out many millions to Blair. He acted through his Gatsby Foundation to finance the Media Standards Trust through which his money help set up and support Hacked Off. In passing it should be noted that he was a big backer of the SDP and also has his fingerprints on other politcal organisations such as the Social Market Foundation, Progress, David Miliband’s Movement For Change and the Institute for Government, the last of which Guido thinks is the most serious threat to freedom in Britain since the Communist Party. Through Hacked Off, Sainsbury has surpassed himself…
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