MPs attack Murdochs in damning report into phone-hacking
MPs today said Rupert Murdoch “is not a fit person to exercise the stewardship of a major international company”, accusing him of “wilful blindness”.
Shamik Das
Boris and Murdoch: The ten questions the Mayor still hasn’t answered
As polling day approaches, London Mayor Boris Johnson is coming under increasing pressure to explain the full extent of his relationship with the Murdoch empire.
Miliband: Cameron and Osborne ‘have helped bankers, millionaires and Murdoch’
Ed Miliband will today seek to portray the Tories as the party of the few, helping bankers, millionaires and Murdoch while doing nothing for everyone else.
Look Left – Leveson and Mr Hunt, double-dipping and sacking Boris
Shamik Das looks back at the week’s politics, including our progressive, regressive and evidence of the week.
US economy grows as UK economy shrinks
As the UK economy descends into a double-dip recession, new figures today show the US economy continuing to grow, albeit it at a slower rate, writes Shamik Das.
Krugman: “Keynesians have been completely right, Austerians utterly wrong”
“The results are in: Keynesians have been completely right, Austerians utterly wrong – at vast human cost” – so wrote Nobel laureate Paul Krugman today.
Under-fire Salmond has “lost his sense of smell” over the “stench of Murdoch”
Pressure is mounting on Alex Salmond to come clean over his relationship with Rupert Murdoch, who last night called the first minister “an amusing guy”.
UK double-dips for first time in 37 years; Balls: Government’s economic credibility “in tatters”
The opposition, press and economists turned on the government today for the UK’s descent into a double-dip recession for the first time since the mid-seventies.
Guess which front page fails to lead on Leveson?
Would you believe it? The Sun is the only UK national newspaper not to lead on James Murdoch, Jeremy Hunt and the Leveson Inquiry today.
Is Jeremy Hunt a “cheerleader” for the Murdochs?
James Murdoch today denied culture secretary Jeremy Hunt was a “cheerleader” for News Corp – yet the evidence says otherwise, reports Shamik Das.