The Plashing Vole

I told you so. More importantly, so did all the trades unions when Murdoch started gobbling the world's media. Now the House of Commons ...

I've posted this clip before, but I was telling someone (can't remember who) about it recently, so thought I'd stick it up again...

Lots of senior politicians, celebrities and so on have written articles for the Murdoch press and the other squalid rags infesting Britain. ...

Two tit-bits from the world of politics:   Cameron spoke to the Conservative backbench 1922 committee for about 20 minutes tonight but not...

China Daily, as I pointed out here , thinks that capitalism is the root cause of the Murdoch newspapers' evil. They're not far wro...

I promise I'll get back to mundane nonsense soon, but the Murdoch story just keeps on giving. The big story yesterday was confirmation...

The Chinese Communist Party's mouthpiece, China Daily , isn't very impressed with the News of the World , and sees it as symptomati...

So, James and Rupert Murdoch are giving evidence to Parliament. It's not very enlightening. Murdoch Sr. seems to have been reading a...

Yesterday in Parliament, the entire Labour Party got to their feet (it's a tradition thing) to demand a debate on the little matter of t...

Sometimes I think he crawls up his ministers' bottoms just because it's warm and comfortable. Or perhaps he thinks there's some ...

Decisively rejecting its reputation as not evil, Apple has launched its newspaper for the iPad, The Daily (great name, Poindexters). For...

A Fearless Fox News reporter puts the owner of his network on the rack with some detailed, relentless questioning. I refer you also to the S...

I'm loving the last week's politics stories: lying Tories on the run, corrupt scum running Ireland falling, and Murdoch's empire...

See it here in this ever-so-slightly satirical cartoon about the American plan to charge publishers of leaked material with espionage. Me...

The Tory Scum/Lib Dumb government's secret little deal to sell the public sphere to Rupert Murdoch - their favourite tax-avoiding billio...

… Or, The Emperor Has No Clothes. Rupert Murdoch has started putting his newspaper sites behind pay walls. As predicted, this has had a wo...

Here's one US tabloid's take on their team's battling draw with England, via Paul Flynn MP 's blog. It's a Murdoch paper...

Though actually he took US citizenship long ago.

I'm a bit concerned that the resistance is focussing on 6Music, and not on the abolition of the Asian Network - are we no longer concern...

Like the Open University , the NHS , the Royal Mail and other British public services, the BBC is an absolute star, proof that government w...