That's fascinating: it's actually the Guardian that's been leading the attack, but the Murdoch rags still can't resist having a go at Sky TV's main competitor.

Of course, this is all about Sky in the end. If nothing else comes out of the mess, I hope it's that the public regains an appreciation for the BBC, and reconsiders all the recent attacks on it.

For example, the recent budget cuts forced on it by Cameron's government which, by pure coincidence, just happened to have been called-for by James Murdoch. (And, again purely by coincidence, Call-Me-Dave just happens to be friends with James's sister Elisabeth...)

Curiouser and curiouser! cried Alice.

Alice? Alice? WHO THE F*** IS ALICE??

Did she get hacked too??

One interesting point that C4 made tonight is that these revelations regarding Brown cast a new light on the incident a couple of years ago when Peter Mandelson called Rebekah Brooks a "chump" during a phonecall.

[Well, he says he called her a "chump", but it's been suggested that it was actually another word beginning with "C"... ]

I imagine the NOTW was trying to find out who was supplying her with those bottles of funny "liquid", and that suspicious "cake"...

Well said that man 

Probably, but it was the Queen of Tarts Brooks wot done it 

Who would have guessed Vince Cable was in to black magic?

I've seen your sick four-month-old son's medical files: What Rebekah Brooks told Gordon Brown that left him 'shocked by NI's criminality and unethical means'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...s-medical-files.html 

According to the Daily Mail.

Rotten to the core and every bit as corrupt as the politicians the NotW claimed to be exposing.  They should have just let him have the Sun and NotW and stopped him in the early 80s. 

It's crazy that even now they're still talking about postponing the deal.

When you have a media group that is so powerful that it considers itself above the law and at liberty to threaten sitting governments and opposition parties, not for democratic accountability, but to advance that media group's interests, then it has to be asked who runs this country!

I did. All economists do voodoo and alchemy *whistles*

Well said

http://www.guardian.co.uk/medi...ational-gordon-brown

it's been pushed back by the referral to the Competition Commission though, eh? Sly move.. and one that probably suits both Murdoch and the government .

came to the conclusion if theyre not running the country, the bastards are selling themselves via the daily papers

the whole country seems corrupt

dunno who to trust

even the cops are selling details

and we slag off other countries!!

Absolutely! Spoken like a true Pirate 

mind you we havent got the cops etc.. shooting us for our opinions..yet

i tell ya if i win the lottery

i'll buy an island somewhere and the gagajoyjoy people can live there

be a sensible island

but

i must be king

see post above

No offence, but I'm stopping here 

Sensible island! 

I fight you for the Crown............

oh ok

but come the revolution

ie

when we run out of soap

the gagajoyjoy gang are yours

ps

i dont think any of them use soap

psps

im not winning any fans here am I?

oh dear..

I really don't know... There have been a lot of suggestions today that Murdoch's planning to get rid of all his UK papers, thus removing the "plurality" concern over his Sky takeover.

However I've just seen an interview with an American who considered the decision one of "panic". Also quite a few seem to consider it the "least worst" option.

It could be very risky. The scandal is becoming an international one very quickly: law suits are already being taken out in the States charging News Corporation with being "unfit". If criminal charges are made in the States, then Murdoch's in huge trouble (there have already been claims that the phones of 9/11 victims were hacked: if that proves true, Murdoch will be lucky to avoid being lynched),

All it will take is for a few senior executives to be shown to be unfit with regards to the takeover, and then the inevitable question follows: if they're not fit to takeover the whole of Sky, how can they be considered fit to own 39% of it?

just read some stuff

the phone hacking gets worse

i cant 'load' it here arrggh

it wont load

im trying copy-paste

its not working

It's going to go on for ages. It's still at the tip of the iceberg stage.

RECREATE the thrill of the Pamplona bull run by dropping 10p in Greggs

It has already been proved that News corps is unfit to run a news paper, how much fuc*ing evidence is needed to prove that news corps cannot be trusted to run SKY?

Has the whole legal system become retarded?

This is a slam-dunk as far as I'm concerned

Is Hayman for real?  

This is a good youtube channel.  

http://www.youtube.com/user/NOTWPhoneHacking

WOW!

I wish Murdoch would fall off the face of the planet.  W@nkaer

Bit of a wide boy to say the least.

Indeedy. Up to date - minute by minute. 

LOL at the pic Slinki! 

Rupert Murdoch, James Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks have agreed to appear before the Culture Media and Sports committee next Tuesday.

This could be televised live on the BBC News channel.

theres gonna be some breaking news ina bit-dont know what it is-but piers morgan is involved-if its interesting, i'll post it

if not

i wont

i cant imagine anything with old pudding face is interesting

The chairman of the committee has just said that he is now not sure if they have agreed to attend. 

oh

yeah,

the news was pretty boring, just about piers pudding morgan stealing the story from a phone hacker about ulrika-ka-ka-ka and sven

Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive....

There'll be no violins from me, the NI clunts deserve everything they get. Karma's a bit of a bitch like that