Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

No, I didn't miss anything in the phone hacking trial, Doc. It was boring, a total waste of time and tax payers money, and nobody (other than commie activists) gave a flying fuck about it.

I'm glad the jury saw sense and that Rebekah Brooks was cleared.

Yes. She seems like a nice girl, doesn't she?

Ah, but I dare bet you missed the bit about Cameron fibbing to the Leveson inquiry. That bit might just come back to haunt him.

I would think Hilary and Rebekah have much in common.

They could exchange notes!

Be interesting to see what her next position is.


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So what? It's old news. Ed Milibland has got absolutely nothing new to go on, and the only people trying make hay from it are dead-in-the-water left wing rags like the Grauniad and Socialist Worker, and, of course, dickheads like Fred, Stan and Fishfinger.

Move along the platform please ...

Wait and see whether it comes up to bite Cameron at the GE.

I think he is leaving enough debris around to bury him.

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But I do like the way Wavy Dave stands up to be counted.

He bends with the faintest breeze in any direction he thinks he can survive in.

He is the wettest of the wet!

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Wow! I didn't realise it was this big! Some pictures:

Glastonbury

Does anyone care if Hugh Grant's messages were read by the press? Only other news rags out to profit by it and activists in general. A massive waste of money. Hopefully the Leveson report won't be followed up with new legislation. I would take a free press any day.

Mobile phones have a 'manufacturer's default security number'.

I can't help feeling that all these people with such apparently very private and very valuable voice mail information never ever bothered with changing the security setting on their phone.

It seems to me, there was always a complete absence of personal care for personal security.

And suppose we term it 'exercising journalistic curiosity' to poke about into a celebrity's (or similar) phone instead of using the term hacking?

Hacking most of these phones by just using the manufacturer's default security in most of these cases was/is so absolutely bloody simple, it is almost a crime to call it 'hacking'.

It was almost like leaving a purse or wallet with money in it on the street and calling the action of the opening the item to find out who it belonged to, commiting an act which is a gross breach of privacy.

Haze.
It was so unimportant that they had to lie about it.

Hacking into somebody else’s privacy

I suppose it is a different morality.

Perhaps, Murdoch and Rebecca's starts “decency” starts at a different point to the majority of society and for profit prepared to use market forces to make their judgements.

Also, it depends on what one considers to be of personal, or private, or public interest.

But, the gutter press supporting Cameron and appealing to his followers, often show voyeuristic tastes in other people’s privacy, but are coy when it intrudes on their own families.


Birds of feather flock together.

Jimmy Savile report out today , what a evil man. Very convenient for a lot of people in the public eye he didn't live to stand in a court of law.

Oh dear John Prescott getting wellied on Question Time, this isn't in the script is it? LOL!!!!

And another success!

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has signed up to a trade and economic pact with the European Union on Friday, saying it may be the "most important day" for his country since it became independent from the Soviet Union.

Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin quickly responded, saying there will be "grave consequences" for Kiev's signing of the dead, Interfax news agency reported.

The European Union signed similar association agreements with two other former Soviet republics, Moldova and Georgia.

Businesses in the three countries whose goods and practices meet EU standards will be able to trade freely in any EU country without tariffs or restrictions. Likewise, EU goods and services will be able to sell more easily and cheaply to businesses and customers in Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova.

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Just seen Hilarys attack on us so called left wing commies from yesterday, what a stiffy I got on. 12 inch of raw meat Hilary. I know you love the male hen.

ps, I vote who I think will do the best for the economy, sorry but this present set of Tory Lyers dont come anywhere near.

pps, its very hard just thinking of you Hilary.

Interesting to see that the majority of EU political leaders are dissociating themselves from Cameron.

I suppose they don't want to be associated with a loser.

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What puzzles me is when the World is dividing itself in to major and minor economic trading blocks, ie. China, USA. Russia, Africa (when it organises itself), India, some like Cameron and cronies want to trade as pirates outside the blocks.

All those major trading blocks are federations of some form or another and have cross states organisation, rules, laws, regulations etc. and functioning and appear to be gradually integrating albeit with minor problems.

But little englanders with the likes of Captain Marvel want to swim with Flotsam and jetsam.

But I always trust a man who says he going to stand up for what he believes in, and repeatedly breaks his promises.

Laughable.