"The Sun - We Love It!"

Well, actually, I don't except in an abstract sense - you know, it's like fancying the obviously naughty bit of stuff across the road but you wouldn't want to be caught 'bang to rights' with her!  Anyway, The Sun is in big trouble and today Trevor Kavanagh unleashes a counter-attack at the political class and their glove-puppets, 'Her Majesty's Plod', who seem to be adopting the procedures of the KGB or the Gestapo as they go about their business.  For example is it really necessary as Kavanagh describes that they raid houses at 4.00 am and that:

Wives and children have been humiliated as up to 20 officers at a time rip up floorboards and sift through intimate possessions, love letters and entirely private documents.

What is their alleged crime?  Possibly, because no-one has been charged as yet, bunging government employees a few quid, or offering them slap-up dinners at the best restaurants in town, in order to get hold of information.  Not, I stress, information likely to endanger the state but almost certainly information likely to be embarrassing for the political classes who rule over us.  To call this 'bribery' is to 'gang-bang' yet another word out of all meaning.  Just pause and remember some of the scandals that the hacks have exposed over the years including the juiciest of them all, MPs' expenses which was obtained by buying stolen documents.   

Given the combined weight of police activity aimed at curtailing press activity - there are three separate investigations under way with 171 officers employed, some of them having been taken of major crimes and security investigations - you would expect (if you were dumb enough) for the 'liberal' press to come out with a screech of protest.  Instead, all The Guardian can raise is a little whimper in the form of a 'on the one hand' and 'on the other hand' editorial which is as utterly pathetic as it is predictable.

Whether you read it or not, if 'the authorities' are successful and The Sun is castrated we will all end up squeaking in high pitched voices!

 

Comments

[dearieme]

Do you take no pleasure in seeing shitty journalists beshat?

[dearieme]

By the by, the paper that drove the pols mad with its expenses revelations, The Tel, seems unharmed as yet. I take it that that means it kept the very best revelations up its sleeve as a deterrent.

[David Duff]

No, DM, I positively like and admire shitty journalists particularly if the shit through which they are shifting is that of our lords and masters! You may be right about 'The Tel' but the Constabulary seem to have the bit between their teeth and are intent on revenge.

[JuliaM]

Never have I seen so many left-wing pundits cheering on the arrest of journalists (and in one case, a journalist's wife for good measure!). I can only imagine the screams of delight if instead of the Super Soaraway Sun it had been Fox News...

[David Duff]

'Oh, my dear, positively orgasmic'! Er, if Lefties ever actually manage an orgasm, that is. Somehow I find it difficult to imagine with, say, dear Polly!

[Andra]

Now, how come DM didn't take you to task about "seperate"?

I don't want the job!

[David Duff]

Dammn! 'Separate', that's another one I always get wrong and yet I can never see it afterwards. As for 'DM', you're right, I think he's falling down on the job, or it could be that there are so many errors in my copy that he can't be bothered to correct them all. It's very difficult to get the staff these days, particularly as I don't pay very much, like, er, nothing! Feel free, dear Andra, to chastise me at any time.

[Andrew Duffin]

It's ugly.

Of course the Graun have not complained, any more than the BBC have: those organisations are part of the political class, on whose behalf this pogrom is being undertaken.

Mark my words, our press will be less free once this is all over.

That, of course, is part of the aim.

[David Duff]

Andrew, there is not a single word in all of your comment with which I would, or could, argue!