Showing posts with label Phone-hacking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Phone-hacking. Show all posts
Thursday, January 25, 2024

"Morals more akin to the Mafia": Chris Huhne on the methods of the Murdoch empire

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Chris Huhne says the public documents in the cases brought by three former Liberal Democrat ministers - Vince Cable, Norman Lamb and Huhne h...
Tuesday, December 26, 2023

The Joy of Six 1189

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"Give or take the odd percentage point, and Sir John tries to persuade the media not to sensationalise small, meaningless poll movement...
Saturday, October 28, 2023

Vince Cable, Chris Huhne and Norman Lamb sue Sun and News of the World publisher over phone hacking

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Embed from Getty Images Claiming an exclusive, the Guardian reports that three senior Liberal Democrat politicians, Vince Cable, Chris Huhn...
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Monday, October 10, 2022

Simon Hughes makes phone-hacking claim against the owners of the Daily Mail

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Embed from Getty Images From the Guardian this evening: The Daily Mail’s parent company is facing its first legal claim for phone hacking, ...
Monday, May 02, 2022

Evan Harris speaks after settling his phone-hacking claim against Murdoch newspapers

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Evan Harris didn't just make a statement to court as his claim against The Sun and the News of the World was settled, he made one outsid...
Thursday, April 28, 2022

Evan Harris settles hacking claim against Murdoch newspapers

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Yahoo! News reports that the former Liberal Democrat MP Dr Evan Harris has settled his claim for unlawful information gathering against New...
Friday, June 11, 2021

Simon Hughes wins phone-hacking damages from The Sun

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Embed from Getty Images From the Guardian : The publisher of the Sun has paid a substantial sum to settle a phone-hacking claim brought by t...
Friday, March 10, 2017

Six of the Best 673

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Energlyn Churchill says a more credible Labour leader than Jeremy Corbyn would help the Liberal Democrats. And he's right. "Ou...
Tuesday, March 07, 2017

Beyond Contempt: The inside story of the phone hacking trial by Peter Jukes

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Beyond Contempt: The inside story of the phone hacking trial Peter Jukes Canbury Press, 2014, £8.99 The Old Bailey trial of Rebekah Br...
Friday, January 06, 2017

Yes to Leveson 2, no to Section 40

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Embed from Getty Images Back in 2012 I wrote : Lord Leveson has not produced his recommendations yet, and when he does many of u...
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Saturday, September 13, 2014

Alex Salmond and Rupert Murdoch

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“ @SnoozeInBrief : Yeah, an independent Scotland would see a completely new style of politics. #indyref pic.twitter.com/LP5ePulhCH ” Lol o...
Wednesday, June 25, 2014

All the people who told us that phone-hacking investigations would come to nothing

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Let me see. There's: Mathew d'Ancona Guido Fawkes Boris Johnson Jenny Jones David Cameron Kit Malthouse
Sunday, September 08, 2013

Chris Huhne on Rupert Murdoch's part in his downfall

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Chris Huhne has an article in tomorrow's Guardian: My endgame began when Neville Thurlbeck, the chief reporter of the now defunct New...
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Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Is this blog covered by the new press regulator?

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I asked this question on Twitter yesterday and received answers varying from obviously yes to obviously no. My suspicion is that nobody kn...
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Sunday, March 17, 2013

Six of the Best 333

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"What badly needs debate is precisely how to regulate cross-media ownership better, and how to prevent semi-monopolies of influence f...
Saturday, March 16, 2013

Nick Clegg doesn't mention the war

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Yesterday I called on the Liberal Democrat high command to come clean and tell us the real reason they are in favour of secret courts. To...
Sunday, September 30, 2012

Six of the Best 281

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A Scottish Liberal offers a cool and measured response to Nick Clegg's Conference speech. "The challenge now is to set the pol...
Friday, August 03, 2012

Lords reform: Jeremy Hunt may have cost the Conservatives the next election

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Because they tend to do well in parts of the country where population is growing and badly in areas where it is shrinking, the redrawing o...
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Saturday, June 30, 2012

We need a Leveson Inquiry for banking

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Lord Leveson has not produced his recommendations yet, and when he does many of us of a Liberal persuasion may not like them. But we can alr...
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Tuesday, June 26, 2012

News Corp lobbyist "threatened" Lib Dems over Sky deal

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Digital Spy has a report on the evidence Norman Lamb gave to the Leveson Inquiry today. At the time of his encounter with Fred Michel, Lamb...