Andy Coulson guilty

Sorry, Suzanne Moore.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/25/rebekah-brooks-journalists-politicians-phone-hacking-trial

Suzannah Moore agrees with you about the hair, Deeda.

The thing that struck me was reading that the defendants turned up every day with cups of coffee that they were allowed to take into the dock with them. I suspect that if I was being prosecuted for shoplifting or whatever I would not be allowed to take even a drink of water with me unless I actually passed out. But then I don't flounce around wafting my stupid hair around (Judgemental - Moi???)

Brilliant article. Thanks mamie

This reads like a script from Dallas or Dynasty!

Some people come out of the toilet smelling of roses and not shit anything else.

A long, but fascinating article about the trial by Nick Davies here:
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jun/25/-sp-phone-hacking-trial-rebekah-brooks-rupert-murdoch

Poor old Dave Twice in recent times he's commented on a trial before it concludes. I was with him on Team Nigella, but what a silly boy!

I doubt he did that on purpose. More a case of falling over himself to apologise before he was accused of not apologising soon enough...

You couldn't make it up, could you? I'd like to know how David Cameron is going to explain away his sabotaging of the final stages of the trial.

Bloody hell. Judge reprimands Cameron for putting out a statement before all the verdicts were in. Bad judgement piled on bad judgements.
Jury dismissed before it has delivered verdicts on all charges. Shocking. And a shocking waste of money.
It just does seem more like a Jilly Cooper novel than real life doesn't it.
RB has walked straight out of the pages - ravishing redhead from a humble background has stellar career. Once she went for intimate rides and had kitchen suppers with the highest in the land. Then she was thrown to the lions by crusty multi millionaire and was humbled in court. Then, to her amazement she's acquitted. I keep looking for the granite jawed cad with thighs of steel. But neither Cameron, Charlie nor Coulson fit the bill. Maybe Ross Kemp? .... oh no, I know, Tony!!!!!

The Sun's front page, shown on Newsnight last night, says its a 'Great Day for the Red Tops'. Brazen, aren't they! So Brookes has got off but not Coulson, nor a number of other journalists with still many trials to go. How does that make it a 'Great Day?'

It stinks!!! The Gaudian journalist who started all this was on Newsnight last night. He said that he had sat through the whole trail. He said that the prosecution case was very weak. Mmm, why was that then. He said that on the evidence he heard ( from the prosecution) he would have found them not guilty.
Still, all be forgotten in a couple of days, won't it.

For those who are completely anti-Blair, here is another recent article, this one by James Delingpole.

Have to say, I thought CM's article better and more reasonable in every way.

Re the call for an enquiry into Blair's role in starting the Iraq war, I recently read an interesting article by Charles Moore in which he makes the following point:

'he did not “take us to war on the basis of a lie” – like virtually everyone in the West, pro- or anti-invasion, Mr Blair genuinely thought that Saddam did have weapons of mass destruction – he should have conceded that his famous intelligence dossiers were substandard.'

Murdoch is to be questioned under caution by the police.

Yes, there should. There should be enquiries into both.
People have tried to arrest Blair. I wonder if anyone will try with Cameron.

Do I have to?

Should there be an enquiry into Blair lying about the non-existent WMDs?

Cloud cuckoo land, durhamjen...

You didn't answer the question, Ana.

As if we didn't know...

Should there be an inquiry into Cameron and his lying under oath?
He's the friend Rebekah and Charlie have in high places.

Well, of course everyone will say that...
(Coulson being the 'sacrificial lamb')

Well, RB does have friends in high places!

hackinginquiry.org/
This might do it.

Sorry, missed out a q.
www.hackingenquiry.org