Tag Archives: Andy Coulson

Hunt gives Murdoch BSkyB get out of competition jail for free card

By January 25 2011, 9:45 am 3 Comments

If you were under the impression that the Tory-led government was not in hock to Rupert Murdoch’s vote winning news empire then it might be time to think again.

This morning culture and media secretary Jeremy Hunt has indicated he will consider undertakings in lieu from Murdoch’s News Corporation which if accepted would mean its proposed takeover of BSkyB (pdf) would not have to be referred to the Competition Commission. Funnily enough this decision has been met with widespread derision. Read more »

Andy Coulson has resigned – statement in full

By January 21 2011, 11:31 am 2 Comments

It is being widely reported that a statement is due from No 10 later today regarding Andy Coulson. The speculation is that David Cameron’s director of communications is toast following fresh evidence emerging regarding the News of the World and phone hacking story.

The timing of the announcement comes as Tony Blair addresses the Chilcot inquiry on Iraq, which has not gone unnoticed on Twitter. Read more »

News of the World phone hacking defence collapses

By January 18 2011, 9:59 am 2 Comments

How long has David Cameron’s communications chief Andy Coulson got left in his job?

News Corporation has always said that the phone hacking scandal was the work of a rogue reporter (you know like the lone gunman..), but this defence is now fast unravelling as Glenn Mulcaire, the private detective at the centre of the case, reveals that the paper’s head of news commissioned him to access voicemail messages. So not exactly rogue then, but more institutional, planned and organised?

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Cameron defends Andy Coulson – but says no one is ‘unsackable’

By October 6 2010, 9:19 am Comments Off

David Cameron last night said that nobody on his team was unsackable, as he faced questions about his communications director, Andy Coulson, as the phone hacking scandal continues to hound the former News of the World editor.

The prime minister defended Coulson in a Channel 4 News interview as his comms chief faces allegations that he knew about illegal phone hacking during his time as editor of the News of the World. Read more »

Pressure grows on Coulson and Cameron as police to interview ex ed over hacking

By September 8 2010, 11:25 am 2 Comments

How long can Andy Coulson last now that it has been confirmed that he will be interviewed by the Metropolitan Police? The Met will talk to David Cameron’s director of communications as part of fresh inquiries into the phone hacking case surrounding the News of the World and News International. Read more »

News Corp bites back in hackgate with angry letter to New York Times

By September 6 2010, 10:38 am Comments Off

News Corporation has bitten back in progressing phone hacking saga and sent a letter to the New York Times following its investigation into the scandal. The paper’s story reignited interest in the illegal activities of Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World and Andy Coulson’s possible knowledge of that activity.

In a strongly word letter News Corp accuses the New York Times paper of failing to come up with new evidence. Read more »

How Cameron and the Standard tackle growing row over Coulson and phone hacking

By September 3 2010, 2:42 pm 2 Comments

Well he doesn’t, but this story splashed on the front page of the Evening Standard today of David Cameron, wife Sam and new family addition probably encapsulates his attitude, and that of parts of the media (is there an unofficial blackout?), to the growing calls for a government inquiry into the swirl of allegations surrounding his director of comms, Andy Coulson, and the News of the World’s phone hacking.

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News of the World faces fresh phone hacking charge

By September 3 2010, 8:14 am 3 Comments

As the government is called upon to launch a judicial inquiry into the phone hacking scandal at the News of the World you would think there was a news blackout with half of the national press ignoring the story. Read more »

Andy Coulson knew all about phone hacking says New York Times

By September 2 2010, 9:02 am 6 Comments

Andy Coulson might not be long for Number 10 if the phone hacking allegations in The New York Times are true. The paper says he knew all about it.

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