OldNick

Mandelson has a nerve. The boundaries were pushed and when nothing was done they were pushed further, it was just like the bankers when Blair and Brown when they first came to office took away the Bank of England's powers to police them. A terrible mistake and they took the p###. The NI did the same as they felt (wrongly) they were almost above the law, as the politicians danced to their tune.

i have changed the paper I was getting if the story on the front was more interesting. i have also looked into the sports pages and decided to buy the one that had an article on Saints but would not normally get the particular paper.

I had never heard of Tiger Woods until i met you Lol

without a doubt RM did not do it for nothing in return. He is a businessman and so you would expect that, the politicians?

but surely if they are as upstanding to their principles they would not be so scared of RM at that time. It is hypocrisy to jump on the bandwagon now. (I expect any opposition party would do the same of course) It is political opportunism to start waving about something that was also being abused under his watch when he was in government. I don't care about which political party is right or wrong on this (all IMO were drinking from the trough) they were/are all desperate for power and sucking up to RM helped them get it.

the pressure to get exclusives must be enormous. Whoever brought the story into the open was a good journalist. It must have taken a bit of guts to take on RM media machine. It is funny that the newspapers editors private lives have never been under the spotlight, unless they have been caught by the law.

is it scrutiny though? there wasn't mch of it leading up to getting RM's ear before the election.

Lol, I wouldn't know crack if I sniffed it

The distortion of truth is everywhere in the media, the pressure of 24/7 news has made sensationalist journalism the norm

to believe that only the NI were into these shady and grubby practices is a tad naive. The Guardian has put its head above the parapet and so probably is confident it is clean. Time will tell who else did these things. As Phil is alluding to, we should be careful what we wish for

I hadn't noticed, but I suspect the same would be said of mine

I haven't followed all the revelations. Why would a hacker delete messages? As I say the levels of decency have been crossed. I'm sure i read that the Americans are listening out for key words and if it is used they can listen in. This is regarding terrorism etc of course.

Born in Portsmouth, but parents are from Liverpool makes her Liverpudlian.....lol

you'd be too tired after picking her spots to **** it. The air brush may have been invented to make this one look good for a lads mag

Who? does that mean Deppo can return

If all the titles of NI are brought down by this scandal, who in the end does this serve best? The politicians and celebs who are living sordid lives will be able to hide behind privacy bills. To me if you have nothing to hide, why worry if anyone is listening in. The problem IMo was not the tapping but who was tapped into, until it was found out that the Soham girls family etc were listenied into most couldn't give a flying f###.

Lol and isnt amusing the link you posted has the first quote of you saying you never disappeared when things got bad. Yet again you are back now things are looking up. You can say what you like but we know you werer bigging it up and believed a lot of your links to players. As you now are back again, can we assume your mum or wife have now allowed you to have a computer back and can use it as long as you eat your tea. You are so easy to easy to assess. You were a bullied child, no friends, a chip on both shoulders,can't take any criticism, a bit of a loner,in fact at work you would be seen as a real life David Brent.

you are right he was wrong appointing him in the first place. As for the date I dont go with that quite so much. Under Thatcher ,it was the early days of people recognising the Suns power. Yes there were ties but unlike under the leadership of Blair etc, as soon as a transgression was made the person was out. Much to the political cost to the Tories. Parkinson a top Allie to MT, was sacked due to an affair with his secretary, that is nothing to what went on in the later governments and would hardly make the papers now. Mandelson and co were IMO reinstated and defended for much worse. The political spin at the time was supported by Blairs friendship with the Sun etc. Iam not saying the Tories from 79 did not cosy up to the Murdochs but it was not the first priority, as in later days, as with the Suns support you were elected. Too much power and influence was wielded by Murdoch and I for 1 was never comfortable with that. Phil was right when he says looking in from abroad we do look a very corrupt nation, a very sad indictment of the new Britain.

Cameron was foolish keeping Coulson on, but I dont think any of the past Pm's have anything to be proud about on this subject. He admits that the politicians were too kenn to get RM's vote to get the nations ones. Bad judgement has been rife at the top since 1997

because nobody reads this thread who is of an argumentative nature Alrite!!!!

no not a diseased view just on old mind. lol Is journalism still such an honorable trade? Was it ever? I have no doubt the integrity of many has been besmirched by the few.

Where/how did you get that info? 1367 posts just to tell you all that 'Pompey will get away with it' If only you had agreed Lol

Lol, I might thing twice about it now. Although in Salisbury they are behaving themselves

That's right, you are correct.

I asked a Welshman how many times he had made love, as he counted he fell to sleep