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.

For an old git!

My wife used to work for his lawyers in the City in the 80s and go into meetings with him. He was a very sharp operator and I suspect he still is.

The NoTW was very profitable. Huge circulation and advertising revenues to match. But I'me sure he feels he can switch the readership to sunonsunday.com (registered 5 July) and make more money with less people.

He is as they say a hard nut, the same as Robert Maxwell. He will probably snuff it before he gets his sentence. lol

She used to take documents to Wapping and had to cross their picket lines. She never had any trouble. If any of male staff went to Wapping they had spare shirts at the office due to rotten tomatoes etc being thrown at them by the print workers.

This must take its toll on a man of his years, I don't care how "sharp" he was.

Hays,

Nowadays, at least the relationship with the unions is relatively open, where as the tory party has become more tribal, elitist and takes place on a square in a dark room.(with or without their trousers on.)

Post 11584,

I think it is a possibly cynical attempt to do that.

But, I think Murdock's press revenues will be down, as associations with him, or his entourage will stink to many.

Mind the tories always had pegs on their noses.

(Otherwise, I was told, "it would be difficult for them to bear their own company".)

I don't think he has a hope in hell of getting control of SKYB in the next 5years, if at all.

Just wondering whether his American Empire will be pruned.

When I looked up sunonsunday.com it was registered in 2007 to someone in Italy and was a music website.

Ah. I think you mean sunonsunday.co.uk. That was registered by News International 5th July this year.

He didn't say which year :-)

The web site doesn't have a host yet though.

By the way, why did you pick the nickname, "Haystack"?

I'm thinking you might be a 'Boris lookalike' or similar? Correct?

Murdoch and Junior are to be sued personally for their handling of the phone-hacking debacle, it emerged on Thursday night as the familys woes intensified on both sides of the Atlantic. They will have to answer claims personally that they neglected their fiduciary duty, rather than have News Corp defend the case as a corporate entity.

Interesting if that kicks off.

That sort of a case is a dead loss. You will never make it stick that the people at the very top of a company should know what is going on at the level we are talking about. That just looks like lawyers wasting everyone's time.

ExecLine
It was the name of a Unix machine that I used to run. You have to name Unix computers when you install the operating system. The front part was part of my name and a 'stack' is another name for computer memory.

Agree over here, but what about the states?

Hays,


Just out of interest, how many of this coalition government are old Etonian Lodge members and how may are members of other lodges?

What is the reference to 'lodge' meant to indicate?

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I know what a lodge is, but not sure of Fred's reference as many Labour MPs are members of the Freemasons. One lodge was set up specifically for them and entry was only for Labour Party MPs. It was the New Welcome Lodge (it is open to other MPs now). It is credited with influencing the 1935 Parliamentary leadership elections of the Labour Party or 'fixing' it depending on who's account you accept. There has been a long association between the Labour Party and the Freemasons. You have to remeber that the Freemasons were set up by masons guilds which were almost a type of union. These days the unions and their secret deals with Labour are more secret Freemasons than the Freemasons themselves.