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Month: April 2011

ANALYSIS: Is any government now big enough to face out the banks?

For the last five years we have been told that busts in China would be avoided, because banks […]

John Ward April 13, 2011 global wealth

HACKGATE DAY 87: The tide comes in on another Newscorp line in the sand

There is no way Murdoch’s 2004-6 inclusion zone will hold. Whittamore files show Royals were being hacked long […]

John Ward April 13, 2011 hackgate

HACKGATE DAY 86: Rebekah steps out in a see-through negligee.

Beckie rings a Met cop to confirm her implacable unwillingness to corrupt him During the early part of […]

John Ward April 12, 2011 hackgate

EXCLUSIVE: Odd things afoot in the Premiership as Russians hack Murdoch

Kroenke may well be wearing  a white hat, but the black arts are still permeating all things Premiership […]

John Ward April 11, 2011 Premiership rocky, Uncategorized

BANKING REFORM: BROWN GETS HIS OAR IN AS VICKERS REPORT FUDGES IT

Uncertainty over Cable’s reaction a cloud on Osborne’s horizon Cable…inconsolable Vickers….incomprehensible Brown….incorrigible Labour lays a trap for the […]

John Ward April 11, 2011 Vickers Report

MURDOCH’S INFLUENCE: THE FULL REVEAL AT LAST

….and why the mealy-mouthed release from Culture Secretary Hunt’s department represents shameless drivel     HOW THIS POWERFUL, […]

John Ward April 10, 2011 Rupert Murdoch

HACKGATE DAY 85: Slog Yorks scoop confirmed as Independent runs new Royal hacking story.

Queen ‘put Cameron on the spot’ over media intrusion of Prince Andrew’s family Prince Andrew and the Queen […]

John Ward April 10, 2011 hackgate, Royal family

HACKGATE DAY 84: Telegraph and Mail remain news-free zones.

Telegraph and Mail leave Murdoch liability sensation off front page. Daily Telegraph’s zero coverage in news, opinion blogs […]

John Ward April 9, 2011 hackgate

COALITION VERDICT: In a word….

SHAMBLES A little over three weeks from now, Britain goes to the polls to make an allegedly vital […]

John Ward April 9, 2011 Coalition drowning

AS NEWSCORP ADMITS GUILT ON 200 PHONE HACKS, RAMIFICATIONS LOOK BAD FOR MAJOR PLAYERS

Astonishing mea culpa, but leading industry figures say ‘it’s not enough’ CEO Rebekah Brooks…in the lurch? The Slog […]

John Ward April 8, 2011 hackgate

HACKGATE DAY 83: Now Hugh Grant turns tables on tabloids as Brooks struggles to reassure Murdoch’s newsroom.

Slog learns that Rebekah Brooks ‘has regular meetings with Murdoch hacks convinced they’re all going to jail’. Grant….defendant […]

John Ward April 8, 2011 hackgate

FINAL ANALYSIS: Nailing the fantasy of a coming recovery.

There will be no recovery on either side of the Atlantic, because none of the vital conditions are […]

John Ward April 8, 2011 economic recovery

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