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by 0 comments on "perhaps we could do with more information from the information commissioner?"

Does anyone else wonder if this Daily Rekkid story is the point at which the Economic League/Consulting Association blacklisting case bleeds across into the Murdoch/private detectives/cops case? Tommy Sheridan seems to be the first person to appear in both as a target of surveillance, and it’s also worth remembering that Andy Coulson is in serious…

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A couple of other Murdoch/Leveson things. Something to thank Rebekah Brooks for: it seems we were spared John Reid as Prime Minister because he gave an exclusive interview to the Sunday Torygraph before speaking to the News of the Screws, and Becky Asbo decided to zap him out of, basically, pique. I remember actively planning…

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by 1 comment on "The Project 3.0 – where are we going from here?"

Adam Bienkov has an excellent piece out on Guto Harri, Boris Johnson, and the Murdochs. Harri was one of the alternative candidates to Andy Coulson for the No.10 press job, of course, then he worked for Johnson, and now he’s off to work for Murdoch. Bienkov points out that there is an increasing tendency for…

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by 0 comments on "There is no post-liberal future; there is only a post-liberal present"

FCR is wondering if we face a Post-Liberal Future. Unfortunately, his sources are David Goodhart and Michael White, two men who have been vigorously promoting the unpopular populism of very real concerns ever since it became fashionable in about 2004. I associate the phrase “unpopular populism” with Jamie Kenny or possibly Daniel Davies, but Google…

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