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Originally Posted by Slinkiwitch x:

I thought she was really good on Tuesday ( even though it goes against the grain to say that! ) She and Tom Watson didn't let the Murdochs off the hook.

I'm sorry slinki. but I really think she's self serving. There's no real meat in her opinions, she just seems to go for the Newsnight chat.

cologne 1
Originally Posted by Slinkiwitch x:

Possibly, I don't know much about her other than what I saw on Tuesday, and I thought she and Watson were excellent in that setting.

Yeah Slinki, I don't take that much notice of politics. All about the same to me but from what I saw the two of them seemed to know what was going on 

FM
Originally Posted by Slinkiwitch x:

I thought she was really good on Tuesday ( even though it goes against the grain to say that! ) She and Tom Watson didn't let the Murdochs off the hook.

 

 

I agree, both of  them seemed by far better than the others at getting to the point directly....although I thought Watson was the more informed, she didn't hold back either 

Dame_Ann_Average
Originally Posted by Dame_Ann_Average:
Originally Posted by Slinkiwitch x:

I thought she was really good on Tuesday ( even though it goes against the grain to say that! ) She and Tom Watson didn't let the Murdochs off the hook.

 

 

I agree, both of  them seemed by far better than the others at getting to the point directly....although I thought Watson was the more informed, she didn't hold back either 

I think Watson might be my new hero

FM
Originally Posted by Blizz'ard:

Louise Mensch practically admitted that she'd got it wrong, on Newsnight.

Yes, I saw that. Although he hasn't (as far as I'm aware) written anything directly incriminating, Piers "Morgan" Moron's book does contain some rather supicious passages, and my guess is that Mensch simply misremembered some of them.


I do think Moron is playing a very dangerous game by fighting back at Mensch, though. As Private Eye has pointed out repeatedly, there have been a lot of stories from colleagues and even Moron himself that - if hard evidence turns up - could very easily put him in the same position that Rebekah Brooks was in where there are only two possibilities: either he was complicit, or else he was incompetent. And of course when it comes to Moron, we've been here before: the Mirror shares scandal.
And guess who's come out of the woodwork recently to claim that celebrity stories at the Mirror were often the result of phone hacking? James Hipwell...
 
Moron may have a defence, though, and oddly it comes courtesy of the Eye. His published diaries (as the Eye has had great fun recently pointing out) are chock-full of inaccuracies (e.g. claiming to have had tea with Tony Blair at No. 10 while John Major was still PM), so he could perhaps just claim that any incriminating passages were misremembered...

Eugene's Lair
Originally Posted by Blizz'ard:

I'm fairly sure that all the tabloids will have some filthy secrets exposed, by the end of this. 


This is essentially Mensch's point: it's why she isn't conceding anything to Moron just yet, and it's why - although I share some of the concerns expressed here about her motives - I'm giving her the benefit of the doubt for the time-being.

 

The current issue of Private Eye points out that after the trial of Mulcaire and Goodman, The Information Commissioner brought out a report which contained a "league table" detailing recorded transactions in which newspapers illegally obtained personal information. The NOTW only came 5th on it: The Daily Mail came top (952 transactions), and The People was second. The Mail on Sunday also made the top 5 (don't know what other title was above the NOTW...)

Eugene's Lair

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