Leveson II The Police

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

...ah bliss the best daytime tv in the history of the world is with us again .....

what a self serving bunch of weasels the Met Apco lot are ... [what is the collective noun for weasels and am i being unfair to the creatures?]

initial reports presage great revelations ....

[handsomefortune]

...ah bliss the best daytime tv in the history of the world is with us again .....

initial reports presage great revelations ....

congratulations on your brand new thread calum da jazbo!

i fully agree regarding 'best daytime tv' .... tis too! 'best' as in most mentally nutritious perhaps?

fancy... charlotte church criticising a multi national corporation - and publicly!

(i'm not sure about the answer to your weasel inquiry ..... i'll leave it to a word bod to respond to)

[subcontrabass]

[what is the collective noun for weasels and am i being unfair to the creatures?]

A "sneak" of weasels.

[Nick Armstrong]

A "sneak" of weasels.

[umslopogaas]

I just looked up weasels in my copy of Step's 'Animal Life of the British Isles' and it notes that they sometimes hunt in family packs, so I guess "pack of weasels" fits the bill.

Not sure though that it is appropriate to describe the Murdoch press as a pack of weasels, because weasels actually do a valuable job in controlling rats and other vermin ...

[Serial_Apologist]

I just looked up weasels in my copy of Step's 'Animal Life of the British Isles' and it notes that they sometimes hunt in family packs, so I guess "pack of weasels" fits the bill.

Not sure though that it is appropriate to describe the Murdoch press as a pack of weasels, because weasels actually do a valuable job in controlling rats and other vermin ...

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

weasels actually do a valuable job in controlling rats and other vermin ...

er well i was seeking to apply the metaphor to the metropolitan plod senior ranks so mebbe it is highly fitting!

[amateur51]

Module II is off to a flying start ....

Police are investigating a "network of corrupt officials" as part of their inquiries into phone hacking and police corruption, a media inquiry has heard. Deputy Assistant Commissioner Sue Akers told the Leveson Inquiry evidence suggested a "culture of illegal payments" at the Sun newspaper. She said payments allegedly made by the Sun were authorised at a senior level.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17173438

[Bryn]

I just looked up weasels in my copy of Step's 'Animal Life of the British Isles' and it notes that they sometimes hunt in family packs, so I guess "pack of weasels" fits the bill.

Not sure though that it is appropriate to describe the Murdoch press as a pack of weasels, because weasels actually do a valuable job in controlling rats and other vermin ...

Both sneak and pack are valid.

[Flosshilde]

Module II is off to a flying start ....

Police are investigating a "network of corrupt officials" as part of their inquiries into phone hacking and police corruption, a media inquiry has heard. Deputy Assistant Commissioner Sue Akers told the Leveson Inquiry evidence suggested a "culture of illegal payments" at the Sun newspaper. She said payments allegedly made by the Sun were authorised at a senior level.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17173438

Watch out, Am - you'll suffer the wrath of Pee!

[amateur51]

Watch out, Am - you'll suffer the wrath of Pee!

Heaven forfend!

[Mahlerei]

It just gets better:

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-24039246-rebekahs-gift-horse-from-met-shows-its-close-ties-to-murdoch-newspapers.do

[amateur51]

This charming piece ....

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-24039235-the-sun-forced-me-to-come-out-as-gay-after-hacking-my-phone-says-hughes.do

[Lateralthinking1]

Will Stephenson be interviewed? I had serious doubts about him the moment he became the man in charge. To herald his arrival, and to put his mark on the force, this occurred within a ten minute walk from here -

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23663126-one-met-chief-80-officers-and-helicopter-raid-home-but-suspects-already-in-cell.do

[Lateralthinking1]

....Good that Simon Hughes has done his bit. Sounded effective. This Jacqui Hames part though is something else. Don't let the horse distract.

Hames - tracked by Mulcaire - who also tracked Detective Cook (Mr Hames) - who was in charge of the investigation of the murder of Daniel Morgan - who had fallen out with ex-business partner and police news gatherer Jonathan Rees - who was found to have planted cocaine on a woman (jailed 2000) - and on his release was appointed by Coulson.

Cameron's decison to appoint the latter does seem very odd in the circumstances. You would think almost that there was another reason but I am sure it is whiter than white.

(Wasn't Jill Dando (sadly died 1999) on the same programme as Hames? - http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standa...es-says-bbc.do)