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Saw this minutes before I put on R4 for PM. Both greatly brightened up my afternoon. Thanks, Caliban!
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On R4 PM. Yes, he did. Proves there's a first time for everything.Originally posted by Frances_iom View PostComment
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The NotW published a facsimile of the 1st issue on its 150th, which discerning regular readers discarded instantly (I know - I found one on the bus).Originally posted by french frank View Post
Microscopic print, 'respectable' human interest stories (not much politics), reports of burglaries, theatre reviews, book reviews and adverts for things like liberty bodices, if I remember.Comment
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I expect the discredited journalists will be recycled, just as the corrupt and inept bankers were. Justice? Possibly a pipedream.Originally posted by french frank View PostComment
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according to BBC News24 a Sunday edition of the Sun was registered as a new title two days agoComment
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Really? I'm amazed! I never expected that!Originally posted by mercia View PostIt isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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It was reported in The Independent a day or so ago that the NotW would probably be closed and replaced by a Sunday edition of the Sun.
The only surprise is that it has happened so quickly.Comment
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Rebekah Brooks. I have just been reading her profile on the BBC, Wikipedia and other sites.
Apparently, little is known about her personal background and it has always been something of a mystery. For example, her entry in "Who's Who" has been described as astonishingly short. There's a reference to studying at the Sorbonne but it has also been noted that she was working full time in newspapers at the age of 20.
Isn't this kind of thing always the way?Comment
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........ and according to Channel 4, Mr Coulson has been told he will be arrested tomorrow (more old news)Comment
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I share everyone's delight here at the welcome demise of the NOTW ... apart from the utter obscenity of innocent shop floor workers losing their livelihoods while culpable senior managers responsible appear to escape entirely unscathed.
However ... I repeat ... there may well be an even greater scandal unfolding here, regarding the behaviour of quite a number of police officers, maybe even at senior level ... and, in the final analysis, that is much more serious ...
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It does have the aura of aspects of policing in the 1970s, doesn't it? One name on the not happy list is Brian Paddick. One wonders what he might know more broadly. I understand that he is thinking of running for Mayor again so for that reason, if nothing else, he might have the public interest uppermost in his mind.Comment
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I'm already touting my plans for a biography around the publishers. HarperCollins?Originally posted by Lateralthinking1 View Post
Re the Sorbonne: I'd lay money that she did the six-month course of French Civilisation for Strange Students which can be done at pre-undergraduate level. A sort of cheap finishing school for plebs with aspirations. (I did the undergraduate version)It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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Strange students?
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"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Etudiants étrangersOriginally posted by Lateralthinking1 View PostStrange students?. The course now has huge numbers of students from all over the world.
It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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