How Sez Sees It

It has emerged that Andy Coulson was paid a six figure pay out by News International when he left and this was paid in instalments while he was being paid by the Tories.  Not only this, but he had a company car from them and access to their health care.  It also transpires that he was having his legal fees paid by NI until last year when he left the Tories. This is all a conflict of interest and apparently may count as an unregistered contribution to the Conservatives.  The sort of information he would have been privvy too raises a huge amount of questions as to whether or not Coulson was passing on information.  How this could not have flagged up is beyond me and probably any other right thinking person. The Tories claim that they did not know that Coulson was receiving any payments from NI while working for them.  Can they be serious?  Why were no checks done on this?  Coulson caused controversy from the moment he was employed by the Tories....

It is with regret that Rebekah Brooks has tendered her resignation as head of News International.  Let me get this straight though.  Last Sunday the News of the World closed down and made around 500 members of staff unemployed and yet there was no apology from Brooks.  Then she resigns herself now and there is still no apology. The ghastly thing is that Brooks and the Murdochs keep denying any wrong doing.  It just feels like Brooks was in the firing line as the public face of the scandal and so she had to be seen to go.  The Murdochs appear to be hiding behind this woman.  When are we likely to hear that James Murdoch is to go as well?  I doubt very much that we will see that happen. If the Murdochs think that by sacrificing Brooks the baying for blood will quell they are much mistaken.  It transpires that today the FBI are looking to investigate the possibility that families of victims who died 11/09/2001 were hacked by News Corporation owne...

Today we learn another sickening side of what News Intl is capable of.  Yesterday we learned that The Times had got hold of Gordon Brown's bank details, etc. and today we learn The Sun got hold of his baby son's medical details.  The worst part of that is that Brooks warned the Brown's that The Sun had this information and when the Browns tried to put out a pre-emptive statement Brooks was not happy. Honestly, who would want to search through the records of a new born child?  It doesn't matter who the parents are, you simply do not go down that route!  The other thing that got to me are the accusations of a former journalist for NOTW.  This journalist claims that on 11/09/2001 Brooks said she wanted said journalist to dress up as Harry Potter for a press conference.  After the attacks on the World Trade Centre began, said journalist called the offices and asked if the Harry Potter thing was still going ahead in light of the horrific events unfolding....

This week we found out just what News of the World have been up to.  Ironically the paper that used to pride itself in reporting scandal has become embroiled in scandal of its own.  Sadly it is some of the most disturbing stories that I have ever heard. Firstly it was the tapping of the phones belonging to Milly Dowler's family, then the families of the Soham girls and then the families of service personnel killed in action.  It just got more and more sickening as the revelations came out.  According to Rebekah Brooks and NOTW staff there is worse to come.  I dread to think that there may be worse and cannot begin to imagine what that may be.  In fact I am not sure I want to know. Brooks claims that she was unaware of the phone hacking taking place under her watch as editor of NOTW.  If anyone believes that then there are serious problems.  How this woman has been allowed to keep her position at News International is beyond me, it is not enoug...