http://www.britishblogs.co.uk/images/373908.jpgThink there should be a "Photoshop this image of George Osborne onto other pictures" thread.
― Stevie T, Monday, 12 September 2011 11:05 (twelve years ago) link
need higher res
― conrad, Monday, 12 September 2011 11:08 (twelve years ago) link
Or get Private Eye to run it on their letters page every week.
― Mark G, Monday, 12 September 2011 11:14 (twelve years ago) link
2-5 is total speculation, right?― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 12 September 2011 11:04 (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 12 September 2011 11:04 (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Yes, officer. Mods, please add "allegedly" to every line.
I have a friend who knows the ppl of posh world. Years ago she passed along a story abt how the Cam/Osb crowd were friends with a dominatrix. A detail I haven't seen brought up elsewhere is that her pals would occasionally pop in and shit on the chest of clients who liked that sort of thing.
― you don't exist in the database (woof), Monday, 12 September 2011 11:20 (twelve years ago) link
Think there should be a "Photoshop this image of George Osborne onto other pictures" thread.
Think Moira Stuart was wise to obscure her features behind those flowers though. Allegedly.
― Euripides Trousers (Tom D.), Monday, 12 September 2011 11:24 (twelve years ago) link
See, when Barack Obama found himself at a stag do in Wokingham, he was savvy enough to leave before the strippergram arrived.
― Mark G, Monday, 12 September 2011 11:27 (twelve years ago) link
Sad thing about this is that it shows the awful little sneeze expulsion isn't a racist on top of everything else.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 12 September 2011 11:30 (twelve years ago) link
i don't think this is really a gauge of that at all; which isn't to say that he is or isn't, just that whether he is should probably be judged on something less convoluted than 'why some of my preferred dominatrixes are black!'
― and my soul said you can't go there (schlump), Monday, 12 September 2011 11:33 (twelve years ago) link
enh who knows
i do think he should answer the question why he was hot to hire coulson
he'll never say 'bc he did me a solid', but what will he say?
xp
haha yeah
― all the small zings (history mayne), Monday, 12 September 2011 11:36 (twelve years ago) link
yeah despite her dominatrixing, the power relationship here runs along pretty traditional contours
xpost
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 12 September 2011 11:38 (twelve years ago) link
'bc he did me a solid'
I hope this is not a reference to some of the services offered by Ms. Rowe's colleagues, as mentioned upthread.
― Euripides Trousers (Tom D.), Monday, 12 September 2011 11:43 (twelve years ago) link
Better that than "he did me a sloppy".
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 12 September 2011 11:45 (twelve years ago) link
There isn't actually anything much here at all except the lols and the direct connection between the prostitute photo and Coulson. We knew about George, cocaine and prostitutes, we knew that Newscorp and Coulson were positively spinning things to suit the Tories, we knew that Cameron wouldn't have hired him if he hadn't.
I assume this is one of those things that gets roundly ignored by the mainstream media who are terrified of the lawsuits until such time as it's all over the internet and they can do so with impunity.
― Matt DC, Monday, 12 September 2011 11:46 (twelve years ago) link
There isn't actually anything much here at all except the lols and the direct connection between the prostitute photo and Coulson.
it's a Good Story though, a good theory: why did osborne back the toxic coulson? one might ask. this is a plausible reason.
― all the small zings (history mayne), Monday, 12 September 2011 11:48 (twelve years ago) link
oh - 'her pals' in my previous post was not meant to imply fellow sex workers; I meant the tories she knew.
― you don't exist in the database (woof), Monday, 12 September 2011 11:49 (twelve years ago) link
Oh It's An Amazing Story.
― Matt DC, Monday, 12 September 2011 11:57 (twelve years ago) link
... but I'm assuming they were, uh, delivering the solids services to said Tories? Scatological rumours never go out of fashion it seems.
― Euripides Trousers (Tom D.), Monday, 12 September 2011 12:01 (twelve years ago) link
shit happens.
― Mark G, Monday, 12 September 2011 12:01 (twelve years ago) link
What's in that aerosol in the photo? Seems like a strange item to be sitting on the table.
― Geirge Hongriot (NickB), Monday, 12 September 2011 12:04 (twelve years ago) link
Imagine these, uh, encounters get a bit smelly
― Euripides Trousers (Tom D.), Monday, 12 September 2011 12:06 (twelve years ago) link
https://images.jmcatalog.com/prdimgs/Mes3et674/MESS/MESS3.JPG
― conrad, Monday, 12 September 2011 12:09 (twelve years ago) link
wait so she'd bring in tories she knew to shit on other clients? metaphorical fetishes, i like it.
― known for melding an outrageous stage presence with tenacious hooks (Merdeyeux), Monday, 12 September 2011 12:12 (twelve years ago) link
to clarify, as I understand it: the tories would be hanging out at their dominatrix friend's place. A client would come to see her, & presumably be taken to a private room. The client likes being pooed upon. At some point, someone – presumably not the client (one imagines him masked) – decides it would be a laugh for one of the young tories to do the chest-pooing instead of the dominatrix. Then, as Mark says, shit happens.
― you don't exist in the database (woof), Monday, 12 September 2011 12:14 (twelve years ago) link
yes, i mean i don't know if the details really hang together but I have had faith in the story ever since I heard it.
― you don't exist in the database (woof), Monday, 12 September 2011 12:15 (twelve years ago) link
Has it been confirmed anywhere yet that Paul McBride is defending Coulson? Only seen it as a rumour.
― 50,000 raspberries with the face of Peter Ndlovu (aldo), Monday, 12 September 2011 12:17 (twelve years ago) link
I'm sure I read it in a news report last week sometime, can't remember where.
― the art of posting sideways (onimo), Monday, 12 September 2011 12:21 (twelve years ago) link
http://news.stv.tv/scotland/261888-andy-coulson-hires-former-sheridan-lawyer/
― the art of posting sideways (onimo), Monday, 12 September 2011 12:22 (twelve years ago) link
Damian McBride would have been funnier
― Euripides Trousers (Tom D.), Monday, 12 September 2011 12:47 (twelve years ago) link
grauniad has reported the story
― all the small zings (history mayne), Monday, 12 September 2011 14:02 (twelve years ago) link
And the Telegraph now.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/8757740/Phone-hacking-Andy-Coulson-helped-spin-story-of-George-Osborne-and-dominatrix.htmlCabinet re-shuffle ahoy!
― Ned Trifle X, Monday, 12 September 2011 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
if only
― conrad, Monday, 12 September 2011 18:35 (twelve years ago) link
News International chairman James Murdoch will be recalled to give evidence on phone hacking to the culture committee, its chairman John Whittingdale has said.The decision comes after MPs heard conflicting evidence over how much Mr Murdoch knew about the practice at one of News International's papers.Separately, it has emerged the mother of a 7/7 bombing victim is to pursue a civil case against News International over alleged phone hacking.
The decision comes after MPs heard conflicting evidence over how much Mr Murdoch knew about the practice at one of News International's papers.
Separately, it has emerged the mother of a 7/7 bombing victim is to pursue a civil case against News International over alleged phone hacking.
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 11:17 (twelve years ago) link
a quantum of pwnage
― all the small zings (history mayne), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 11:18 (twelve years ago) link
odds he might be a bit busy this time round?
― Upt0eleven, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 11:25 (twelve years ago) link
Renault has u-turned on its decision to boycott advertising in all News International titles following the phone hacking scandal at the News of the World that led to the paper’s closure.The car marque, which became the only advertiser to boycott a News International title beyond the News of the World in July as a result of the “seriousness” of the phone hacking allegations, says it has now reviewed its advertising plans following a series of discussions with the publisher.A Renault spokesman says: “News International has apologised for the wrongdoing committed. We have sought and received reassurances that they are fully and actively co-operating with the Metropolitan Police enquiry, that they welcome a broad inquiry into press and police standards and that they are reviewing their internal procedures and practices to prevent such serious problems arising again.”
The car marque, which became the only advertiser to boycott a News International title beyond the News of the World in July as a result of the “seriousness” of the phone hacking allegations, says it has now reviewed its advertising plans following a series of discussions with the publisher.
A Renault spokesman says: “News International has apologised for the wrongdoing committed. We have sought and received reassurances that they are fully and actively co-operating with the Metropolitan Police enquiry, that they welcome a broad inquiry into press and police standards and that they are reviewing their internal procedures and practices to prevent such serious problems arising again.”
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 12:37 (twelve years ago) link
va va cunts
― conrad, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 12:56 (twelve years ago) link
whoa http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/sep/16/phone-hacking-met-court-order
― caek, Friday, 16 September 2011 14:45 (twelve years ago) link
An obscure clause – section 5 – of the 1989 Official Secrets Act, highly controversial at the time of its passing, allows individuals to be prosecuted for passing on "damaging" information leaked to them by government officials in breach of section 4 of the same act. This includes police information "likely to impede … the prosecution of suspected offenders".The clause is aimed at those who deliberately derail investigations by, for example, tipping off a suspect about an impending police raid. But it is being used in this case in an unprecedented way, against individual journalists for publishing a news article. The Guardian's reporters did not pay any police officers.
The clause is aimed at those who deliberately derail investigations by, for example, tipping off a suspect about an impending police raid. But it is being used in this case in an unprecedented way, against individual journalists for publishing a news article. The Guardian's reporters did not pay any police officers.
yeesh
― caek, Friday, 16 September 2011 14:46 (twelve years ago) link
brazen.
― Upt0eleven, Friday, 16 September 2011 15:10 (twelve years ago) link
should have tried the "you should tell us who your source is so we can disappear them give them a medal!" tactic instead imo
― civilisation and its discotheques (c sharp major), Friday, 16 September 2011 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
it worked so well in infernal affairs after all.
― civilisation and its discotheques (c sharp major), Friday, 16 September 2011 15:17 (twelve years ago) link
Milly Dowler's family offered a £2m settlement: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14975549
― StanM, Monday, 19 September 2011 17:07 (twelve years ago) link
i hope they don't take it.
― assume makes an ass out of u and me (but mainly u) (stevie), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 00:40 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z0-m31oh2w
― Louis Jaha (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 06:22 (twelve years ago) link
How long can they continue settling out of court for? Given the scale of the phone-hacking this is going to put a serious dent in their finances at some point if it hasn't already.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 09:13 (twelve years ago) link
two million is nothing to them, I refer you to Noodle's tube
― robocop last year was a 'shop (sic), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 12:14 (twelve years ago) link
Noodle's tube [citation needed]
― 347.239.9791 stench hotline (schlump), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 12:20 (twelve years ago) link
not only is it a piddling amount of money to NewsCorpse but the settlements will be made on a "how good is the publicity?" basis. on those grounds the Dowlers are probably higher profile than any other victim - nobody really cares if celebs get hacked, and if the evidence of hacking the phones of dead soldiers' families is there, the individuals are made less visible by their numbers and lack of a story.
people - maybe understandably - want exciting triumph of the little guy movie developments but it's not much gonna happen that way. this isn't done tho - NewsCorpse has undoubtedly suffered serious strategic blows, and investigations and eventual trials are certainly ongoing. sorry it won't be the revolution or anything but this whole affair is still a loss for the forces of unmitigated evil, whether we get to see a happy ending or not
― Louis Jaha (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 12:30 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOZ1vuwc_D8
― assume makes an ass out of u and me (but mainly u) (stevie), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 12:39 (twelve years ago) link