I suppose when you’re 81 you can do weary in an extended grilling about your company, your ethics and, most of all, yourself and Rupert Murdoch did just that today, masterfully, when he testified before the UK’s Leveson Inquiry into media ethics. For some reason counsel to the inquiry Robert Jay spent the morning session [...]
Rupert Murdoch isn’t a very happy bunny at the moment although he can console himself with the thought that things could be much worse (they still might be). But what the News Corporation boss probably hates the most is that his decision to close the News of the World in the wake of the phone [...]
Well wouldn’t you? Hundreds of people (quite well-paid people at that) are out on the streets as the News of the World closes as Rupert Murdoch tries desperately to keep News Corporation’s bid for BSkyB alive and his investors off his back. News Corporation deputy COO James Murdoch (son and heir of News Corporation chairman [...]
The antecedents certainly aren’t good, the last time there was a big campaign supporting home-grown industry in the UK was back in the 1960s. Dr Johnson called patriotism “the last refuge of a scoundrel” and the 1960s ‘I’m backing Britain’ campaign complete with Union Jacks and T-shirts made in Portugal was hijacked by one of [...]
Not many people know this but Patience Wheatcroft, just ennobled as a Tory peer by PM David Cameron, was my first news editor at a now extinct property magazine called Estates Times. Patience was obviously destined for high things (although none of us thought they would be quite this high). But she went, via the [...]
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