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.

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.

Hays,

Not the answer to the question asked.

I was asking about Cons. and the Brotherhood.

If you believe the Masons are an open society, I think it would be reasonable to enquire further into their activities.

What surprised me when I enquired into their set up and actions I was surprised one at the information I was able to gather, but also the reluctance by many to give some of that information.

( That was some years ago, but at the time I couldn't understand some voting patterns of a committee, until I "informed" about association of many of the committee members.)


Wouldn't suggest that many members of Labour party were Masons, or that some of the lodges were based on the mythology of the guilds, but lodges are are/were rampant through, various areas of judiciary, police, Universities, other public institutions.

The name or game which is "never spoken".

There is a lodge for Old Etonians, look it up.

(Ps. I was asked the Masons a long time ago, and refused to on the grounds I didn't like secret societies.)

Blackballed eh Fred? Aint life a bitch! :O)

Louise Armitstead and Richard Blackden, 0:25, Saturday 16 July 2011

Rupert Murdoch's empire suffered another blow tonight with the resignation of Les Hinton, the trusted lieutenant who ran Dow Jones (DJI: ^DJI - news) , the owner of the Wall Street Journal .

The resignation of Mr Hinton marks the departure of one of Mr Murdoch's oldest allies and most respected executives.

Mr Hinton was chairman of News International, News Corp's UK newspaper division, during a decade that covered the allegations of phone-hacking at the News of the World .

"That I was ignorant of what apparently happened is irrelevant and in the circumstances I feel it is proper for me to resign from News Corp," the 67 year-old said.

Mr Hinton has run Dow Jones since Mr Murdoch's controversial acquisition of the company in late 2007. The Bancroft family, which previously owned it, says it would not have agreed the sale had it known about the phone-hacking.

Mr Hinton's resignation, which is likely to cause considerable turmoil at the Wall Street Journal , came hours after Tom Mockridge was appointed chief executive of News International.

The boss of Sky Italia replaced Rebekah Brooks, who also resigned yesterday amid intense pressure from the phone-hacking scandal.

Top shareholders in News Corp most of which are big American institutions were said to have played a "significant role" in the timing of Ms Brooks' resignation, according to insiders.

Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, the Saudi billionaire who is the second-biggest shareholder in News Corp, indicated that he believed Ms Brooks should resign.

Since the scandal erupted two weeks ago, the share price of News Corp, the US parent company of News International, has dropped by 14pc.

The shares closed up 1.3pc at $15.64 tonight on Wall Street. Shares in BSkyB (LSE: BSY.L - news) , in which News Corp holds a 39pc stake, have also plunged.

Pressure is mounting on James Murdoch, a director of News Corp and chairman of BSkyB. He is also a director responsible for corporate governance at GlaxoSmithKline (Other OTC: GLAXF.PK - news) . Yesterday GSK said Mr Murdoch would continue to serve as a non-executive director.