Andy Coulson claims his mobilephone is hacked

My little ditty on the scum.

I wouldn’t dwell much on the Coulson side of things. It’s the sheer extent of the tabloids’ pollution of British life that matters here and is impossible to refute:

“Not that surprising really, from a paper that has long made a living out of a toxic concoction of making up stories, peeping through private lives, perving on tits and bullying people.

What’s most depressing is the evidence that Murdoch’s clout on all aspects of British life is beyond the most pessimistic predictions. Aside from confirming the sheer ineptitude of the Press Complaint Commission, the revelations show awful practices on the part of the police and the Crown Prosecution Service for failing to investigate the repeated and criminal breach of the Data Protection Act.”

Agreed.

This story, like the McBride one, is a load of apolitical cack. It’s exactly the kind of dreck that has long since replaced outmoded concepts like “policy” or “ideas”.

OTOH, sending salacious private emails to your colleagues isn’t illegal – wire tapping and hacking certainly are, and people caught doing such things might face jail.

So to recap – McBride, Draper – Idiots, smear-merchants; resigned. Coulson – should perhaps consider getting some facial tattoos and working out a bit to make him look tougher, unless he wants to get real intimate with the criminal classes.

http://dizzythinks.net/2009/07/coulson-mcbride-and-general-bollocks.html

“McBride was banged to rights, Coulson isn’t (yet). Claiming that it would be hypocritical not to be as outraged at Coulson as one might have been at McBride is at best spurious, and at worst plain stupid. Let’s not be under any illusions here, the outrage in both cases from opposing side is driven by political bias. The difference is that one has evidence against the person in question and the other doesn’t.”

I think Mr Coulson will have to go, perhaps quite soon.