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Incidentally, the Court of Appeal has ordered News Group to pay Coulson's legal fees. Some interesting passages from the judgment:

That position has changed since the date of the learned judge's judgment because, on 24 July 2012, as a result of Operation Weeting, Mr Coulson was charged with five offences of conspiracy to intercept communications. He has since appeared before the Magistrates Court and the Crown Court to face those charges. A trial date has been fixed for 26 September 2013. The police investigation called Operation Elveden, which also involves Mr Coulson, is continuing. At the time of the hearing on 8 November he remained on bail to the police in respect of that matter and was due to surrender to that bail on 20 November 2012. We have been subsequently informed that the claimant has been charged with further offences.

That argument has lost some of its simple attraction since we admitted into evidence a recent witness statement of Ms Rickards, who is (as mentioned above) Mr Coulson's solicitor. She produced copies of reported statements by NGN management which indicate that NGN is providing financial support to another former editor of NoW in respect of charges faced by her in respect of the same alleged conspiracy. Mr Coulson's solicitors asked in correspondence, in the light of those reports, whether such support was indeed being given. However, NGN refused either to confirm or deny the accuracy of the reported statements.

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Leveson would seem to have been very kind to the Met.

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Apparently less kind to Salmond.

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Think the implication is that Salmond broke the ministerial code.

Oh dear. Tories could be back in Scotland.

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He's a little charmer, isn't he.

BBC Website wrote: Kelvin MacKenzie, former editor of The Sun tweets: Miliband and co kissed Rupert's rear end for 13 years and now they want to defenestrate him. Nauseating hypocrisy. #Leveson

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The standard of Tory contributions is laughable.

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Tories could be back in Scotland.

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This all feels like a bit of a damp squib to be honest.

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Tubby Isaacs wrote: Think the implication is that Salmond broke the ministerial code.

Oh dear. Tories could be back in Scotland.

Who invented the alternate reality teleporting machine, and can we go somewhere more exciting than a blue tartan Scotland with it?

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I got the impression Salmond had broken the ministerial code. He's basically the whole party, like Fargle in UKIP.

Loads of people who should be Tories support the SNP.

I didn't invent the teleport machine. Murdoch's mates did- they've been to see Jefferson, Milton and Orwell in it.

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I think Leveson went soft on Hunt and all, hoping that would make it easier to get the main bit accepted. He got that wrong.

Fuck this joke country. Guess we can look forward to some other lie about darkies just before the next mayoral election.

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Loads of people who should be Tories support the SNP.

Two things:

1. The SNP's moved quite a bit away from its "Tartan Tory" roots - free prescriptions, free eye tests, "free" university education, free geriatric care, free bus travel for the elderly; none of these are what you'd get from a traditional centre-right party elsewhere in Europe.

2. Even if the SNP are the natural home for Scottish right-wingers (and even if as clever a bastard as Salmond were actually caught being up to no good), there's a huuuuuuge difference in Scotland between being right wing and voting Tory.

Voting Tory in Scotland is still the shame that dare not speak its name, like bestiality or incest. You hear stories about the strange practices of Perthshire landowners and people in exclusive Edinburgh suburbs. They keep their own company, cannot look you in the eye when you pass them in the street and are shunned by their fellow man.

And even if the 21st century Scottish Tories sound occasionally plausible for a few minutes when speaking in the Scottish Parliament, all it takes is for Cameron or Osborne or Boris Fucking Johnson to open their mouth (or some throwback Thatcherite quisling like that nasty little cunt Michael Forsyth) and the Scottish Tories are completely fucked again.

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Elderly get free bus travel in England too. But I see what you mean.

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And you didn't even mention Gove.

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And you didn't even mention Gove

Education's devolved, so Gove's not on the radar north of the border - the only reason Boris is, is because his self-publicising knows no bounds.

edit: sorry, should read - Education in Scotland is devolved, etc.

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I know education's devolved.

But Gove considers himself a man with a broad canvas. Didn't his Murdoch bollocks figure in Scotland? He's weighed in on Europe too.

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If his nonsense has registered on the Scottish consciousness, it's not been to the level of the Scottish party pleading with their London counterparts not to allow him north of Hadrian's Wall (à la Osborne or Nick Clegg).

I've said for a long time that the Scottish Tories need to cut ties with Cameron's lot and go back to calling themselves the Scottish Unionists or whatever. It still won't make them likeable (or their policies correct), but they'd at least be able to distance themselves from the bloodstains of the Thatcher and Major years.

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Crike, I'd say Gove was worse than Osborne or Clegg.

Carl Bernstein is seemingly incapable of understanding that if people are unaccountable they don't tend to get sent to jail.

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Tell me about Bernstein. Dining out on old glory?

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Tell me about Bernstein. Dining out on old glory?

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Yes.

He's been repeating himself, too.

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Ha, ha.

this is funny too:

He is the embodiment of Fleet Street bullying, using his newspaper to peddle his Little-England, curtain-twitching Alan Patridgesque view of the world, which manages to combine sanctimonious, pompous moralising and prurient, voyeuristic, judgmental obsession, like a Victorian father masturbating secretly in his bedroom.

Steve Coogan on Paul Dacre.

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Bernstein also hadn't bothered to see if Leveson's recommendations would have actually impeded him.

Why did they think he was on?

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Tubby Isaacs wrote: Ha, ha.

this is funny too:

He is the embodiment of Fleet Street bullying, using his newspaper to peddle his Little-England, curtain-twitching Alan Patridgesque view of the world, which manages to combine sanctimonious, pompous moralising and prurient, voyeuristic, judgmental obsession, like a Victorian father masturbating secretly in his bedroom.

Steve Coogan on Paul Dacre.

Steve Coogan calling something Alan Partridgesque? Did he disappear up his own arse shortly afterwards?

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Copper in court.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jan/07/april-casburn-news-of-the-world-phone-hacking

A senior police officer in Scotland Yard's counter-terrorism unit telephoned the News of the World to tell them the paper's former editor Andy Coulson and five other people were being investigated by the Metropolitan police over alleged phone hacking.

In the first day of the trial at Southwark crown court in London of detective chief inspector April Casburn on Monday, prosecutor Mark Bryant-Heron told the jury she had phoned the paper at 7.51am on Saturday, 11 September, 2010 with the tip off.

She spoke with a journalist on the News of the World night desk, Tim Wood, for eight minutes and 37 seconds and offered "to sell information" to the paper about an investigation Scotland Yard had launched the day before into fresh allegations made about phone hacking in the New York Times.