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phone hacking

The setting Sun: Murdoch paper valued at ZERO by News Corp

Lucy Skoulding
14 June, 2021

Legal fees from the phone hacking scandal as well as the the pandemic saw News Group Newspapers lose £200 million last year.

The Times weeps for ex-Murdoch employee Andy Coulson and buries his hacking conviction

Adam Barnett
4 June, 2015

The paper invites us to sympathise with a man who was jailed for conspiracy to hack phones

“Not the man to lead” – opposition parties attack ‘tainted’ Salmond over Leveson

Ed Jacobs
30 November, 2012

The opposition has attacked Alex Salmond after the Scottish first minister’s relationship with Rupert Murdoch was described as “striking” in the Leveson Report.

Watch: Charlotte Harris rebuts the anti-regulation “scaremongering”

Shamik Das
30 October, 2012

Watch Charlotte Harris rebut the anti-regulation “scaremongering” of the likes of Neil Wallis and Boris Johnson.

Phone hacking: Net closes in on Piers Morgan’s Mirror

Shamik Das
23 October, 2012

The phone hacking heat was turned up on Piers Morgan last night, as the Daily Mirror became the first non-Murdoch title to face legal action.

Surprised at Boris’s Olympic invite to Murdoch? Don’t be – he’s his biggest fan

Shamik Das
1 August, 2012

Boris Johnson, drunk on the power of being London Mayor at the time of our Games, has invited Rupert Murdoch to the Olympic swimming this Friday.

Phone hacking charges: Reactions from around the web

Katie Stanton
24 July, 2012

The Crown Prosecution Service today announced eight people will be charged in connection with the phone hacking scandal. Proceedings will begin next month.

Time for slippery Salmond to answer for his “toe-curling fawning over Rupert Murdoch”

Ed Jacobs
11 June, 2012

On Wednesday, SNP leader Alex Salmond will have to face the Leveson Inquiry and atone for his “toe-curling fawning over Rupert Murdoch”.

So, Mr Cameron, why spare Hunt and knife Warsi? (As if we don’t already know…)

Shamik Das
5 June, 2012

David Cameron is referring Baroness Warsi to the adviser on the Ministerial Code; he is not referring Jeremy Hunt… Spot the difference?

Salmond to be dragged before Leveson as ‘Wee Eck’ refuses to say if he’s been hacked

Shamik Das
2 May, 2012

It was reveled today that Alex Salmond will appear before the Leveson Inquiry as the first minister refused to tell MSPs if he’d been hacked, reports Shamik Das.

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