Tag: News International
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Never Buy The Sun aka did Leveson Not Teach You Anything?
I don’t really repost videos or songs, but ‘Never Buy The Sun’ – still free over at Billy Bragg’s website – is worth repeating. Sad that it needs to be repeated, since The Sun (or The Scum as any right thinking person calls them) since Hackgate and the Leveson enquiry they were promising to be…
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Unofficial Anthems 5 & 6: Shipbuilding & Pills & Soap
When is an anthem not an anthem? If it says something profound and isn’t upbeat, is it an anthem? Ferry Cross the Mersey, Swing Low, even that terrible Elgar mess are all slow and meaningful and they’re anthems? (well maybe not the rugby ones, unless actions are also conferred LOL). I think Shipbuilding, written by…
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Bernie and the Billionaire, Bread and Circuses
Love this speech from Bernie Sanders, amazingly the first self-described ‘socialist’ in the Senate if Wikipedia is correct. I wish there were more politicians brave enough to say this – sadly the currently corporate funding and lobbying system here and abroad means they’re very unlikely to do so – that system breeds corruption, kickbacks and…
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Never Buy The Sun – new free Billy Bragg track
Wonderful track from the underappreciated and ever-talented Billy Bragg – and you can download it for free or stream it here. (via Slicing Up Eyeballs)
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We’re sorry, we’re so so sorry…
via b3ta this is all I need to say about Rupert’s ‘apology’. Although if you want to read some alternative original research into News International that talks about some of their other dirty deeds (DeMenenez, and Danielle Jones where even more than Milly Dowler it could actually change the result of the case) then read…
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Milly Dowler, Soham and News International
Like a lot of people I am shocked by the revelations that News of the World hacked into Milly Dowler’s phone (the murdered Walton on Thames teenager) – but as you can see from this video of the excellent Tom Watson, this is not new. Murdoch’s henchmen and spies hacked into the phones of the…