It seems wrong that Murdoch won’t be at St Paul’s
Rupert Murdoch and Margaret Thatcher were “great allies and friends”, writes Michael Crick – so why isn’t he attending her funeral?
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Former MP Louise Mensch says Rupert Murdoch’s recall to appear before MPs is “partisan peacocking”. Lawyer Charlotte Harris says he must explain the discrepancy between his public and private views.
An MP says that a tape revealing what Rupert Murdoch really made of the scandal that engulfed his empire should be in the hands of the police.
Rupert Murdoch and Margaret Thatcher were “great allies and friends”, writes Michael Crick – so why isn’t he attending her funeral?
From Bradley Wiggins to Rupert Murdoch, Channel 4 News maps the winners and losers of the past 12 months.
Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper for the iPad era, The Daily, shuts after less than two years, as News Corporation also announces the departure of Tom Mockridge from News International.
As Elisabeth Murdoch prepares to address the Edinburgh International Television Festival, a leading media commentator speculates that there may soon be no Murdochs at the top of the family business.
Sir John Major tells the Leveson inquiry that Rupert Murdoch instructed him before the 1997 election that his newspapers would not back him unless he changed his policies on Europe.
Jon Snow asks if the Commons Select Committee which investigated Rupert Murdoch is “unfit” for purpose?
Damning report from the media select committee on the Murdoch empire, but four Tory MPs didn’t sign up to the criticism of Rupert Murdoch – a Lib Dem and the five Labour members did. That diminishes the power of the report somewhat, blogs Gary Gibbon.
“You know things are bad when the PM has to come out mentioning this level of serious misdemeanour in order to try to clear the air.”
The Prime Minister has insisted there was no deal between the Conservatives and Rupert Murdoch to smooth the way for the tycoon’s takeover of BSkyB.
A more snappish Rupert Murdoch in evidence at Leveson today. The man who said yesterday that anyone in public life was fair game for media attention today complains about being harrassed by snappers and reporters when he left his home beside Rebekah Brooks last year.
Rupert Murdoch tells the Leveson inquiry the News of the World was involved in a phone-hacking “cover-up”. But former NoW legal manager Tom Crone accuses Mr Murdoch of a “shameful lie”.
Jeremy Hunt’s immediate chances of survival are looking a bit better than I would’ve guessed this morning.
All in all though, it was the documents put on-line that fired up yesterday’s session and triggered the furore around Jeremy Hunt’s position. Today looks like being different. The documents Rupert Murdoch refers to in his written statement don’t look like they are seismic. The action, for now, is back in Westminster, even if the anthropological interest is at the high court.