Rebekah Brooks said, to the Leveson Inquiry, that nobody could have predicted that the public would confuse paedophiles and paediatricians.
Clearly she's not seen this Brass Eye special from 2001:
Brass Eye Special - Paedogeddon
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Friday, 11 May 2012
Wednesday, 2 May 2012
30th anniversary of the sinking of the Belgrano
30 years ago today the Royal Navy sank the Argentinian ship, the General Belgrano.
It was all part of the Falklands conflict that had begun a month earlier when the Argentinians had invaded and taken over both the Falklands Islands, which they call the Malvinas islands, and South Georgia.
As part of their campaign to recapture the islands, the British government had announced a 200-mile exclusion zone, but, when HMS Conqueror, a nuclear powered submarine, launched 3 torpedoes at the Belgrano it was outside of that exclusion zone, in international waters, and sailing away from the islands and the British Task Force that had been amassed in the South Atlantic over the previous weeks.
The General Belgrano posed absolutely no threat to Royal Navy ships and had every right to be where it was, and yet, on the orders of Margaret Thatcher, the UK Prime Minister, it was sunk, killing 368 men.
Today, in a tasteless events and a reunion, British veterans of the conflict celebrated this massacre and justified this dreadful attack.
Why, instead, were they not arrested for war crimes? And why has Margaret Thatcher never had her day in court at the Hague to account for the cold-blooded murder of so many men?
Thatcher did many things during her premiership that people find distasteful, for the sinking of the Belgrano she should have spent her later years in prison.
It was all part of the Falklands conflict that had begun a month earlier when the Argentinians had invaded and taken over both the Falklands Islands, which they call the Malvinas islands, and South Georgia.
As part of their campaign to recapture the islands, the British government had announced a 200-mile exclusion zone, but, when HMS Conqueror, a nuclear powered submarine, launched 3 torpedoes at the Belgrano it was outside of that exclusion zone, in international waters, and sailing away from the islands and the British Task Force that had been amassed in the South Atlantic over the previous weeks.
The General Belgrano posed absolutely no threat to Royal Navy ships and had every right to be where it was, and yet, on the orders of Margaret Thatcher, the UK Prime Minister, it was sunk, killing 368 men.
Today, in a tasteless events and a reunion, British veterans of the conflict celebrated this massacre and justified this dreadful attack.
Why, instead, were they not arrested for war crimes? And why has Margaret Thatcher never had her day in court at the Hague to account for the cold-blooded murder of so many men?
Thatcher did many things during her premiership that people find distasteful, for the sinking of the Belgrano she should have spent her later years in prison.
Monday, 20 February 2012
OPINION: Sun on Sunday
So Rupert Murdoch can't wait any longer. He's announced that this coming weekend will see the launch of his new Sunday tabloid, the Sun on Sunday.
Even before News International took the decision to close the News of the World last year, there were rumours that it would be replaced with a Sunday version of the Sun, the popular weekday and Saturday tabloid which Rupert Murdoch has owned for more than forty years.
But surely this is too soon?
Surely with all those who have been horrified by the phone hacking scandal at the News of the World, and with more recent allegations and arrests linked to The Sun, people aren't going to buy this new red top?
Sadly, I expect they will.
Earlier today I heard a woman on the radio saying she'd buy the Sun on Sunday because her weekend had been lacking the fun that the News of the World used to supply. That's a shocking admission of how superficial and mind numbing her existence must be. Someone else said they hoped the new title would do some if the campaigning journalism that the News of the World had done. I presume they meant like the anti-pedophile campaign that saw vigilante groups attack paediatricians - I guess because many of the readers of the News of the World had such low IQs and reading abilities.
Sadly, I fully expect those same thickies will ignore that News International is behind the Sun on Sunday, and will ignore the fact that many former News of the World journalists now work for The Sun and Sun on Sunday.
More tragically, I suspect advertisers will flock to the new title and not realise they are tainting their own brand by association with a business that is, it seems, institutionally corrupt.
I hope the Sun on Sunday fails. I hope, soon, that Murdoch and his son and various other senior execs and journalists get their day in court and their time in prison. I fear they'll get away with it and the pathetic and idiotic British public will buy the Sun on Sunday in their millions.
Even before News International took the decision to close the News of the World last year, there were rumours that it would be replaced with a Sunday version of the Sun, the popular weekday and Saturday tabloid which Rupert Murdoch has owned for more than forty years.
But surely this is too soon?
Surely with all those who have been horrified by the phone hacking scandal at the News of the World, and with more recent allegations and arrests linked to The Sun, people aren't going to buy this new red top?
Sadly, I expect they will.
Earlier today I heard a woman on the radio saying she'd buy the Sun on Sunday because her weekend had been lacking the fun that the News of the World used to supply. That's a shocking admission of how superficial and mind numbing her existence must be. Someone else said they hoped the new title would do some if the campaigning journalism that the News of the World had done. I presume they meant like the anti-pedophile campaign that saw vigilante groups attack paediatricians - I guess because many of the readers of the News of the World had such low IQs and reading abilities.
Sadly, I fully expect those same thickies will ignore that News International is behind the Sun on Sunday, and will ignore the fact that many former News of the World journalists now work for The Sun and Sun on Sunday.
More tragically, I suspect advertisers will flock to the new title and not realise they are tainting their own brand by association with a business that is, it seems, institutionally corrupt.
I hope the Sun on Sunday fails. I hope, soon, that Murdoch and his son and various other senior execs and journalists get their day in court and their time in prison. I fear they'll get away with it and the pathetic and idiotic British public will buy the Sun on Sunday in their millions.
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