The Guardian
July 26 2010
The Americans have known for weeks that they have suffered a haemorrhage of secret information on a scale which makes even the leaking of the Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam war look small by comparison.
The Afghan war logs, from which the Guardian reports today, consist of 92,000 internal records of actions by [...]
Published by the Guardian
July 26 2010
Julian Assange is self-consciously an individual. He thinks in his own way, primarily as a physicist, having studied pure maths and physics at university in Australia where he grew up.
So, for example, explaining his decision to found Wikileaks, he starts with his interest in the physics of a small [...]
May 3 2010
The Guardian
David Cameron’s close adviser, Andy Coulson, last night came under ferocious attack after the disclosure of new evidence of the News of the World’s role in the illegal interception of the royal household’s voicemail messages during his time as editor.
The evidence is contained in the outline for a book which was planned [...]
April 17 2010
The Guardian (edited version)
“British jobs for British workers.” It’s an easy thing to say. Gordon Brown came out with it in June 2007, just before he became Prime Minister. Since then, the easy words have been picked up and recycled by pundits and pickets and politicians from the British National Party on the [...]
April 10 2010
The Guardian
An official inquiry has been launched into the suspected interception of voicemail messages around the tabloid newspaper story of the England football captain, John Terry, and his alleged affair with a French model.
The inquiry, which is being led from the Information Commissioner’s Office, will cause alarm in Fleet Street, where newspapers and [...]
April 10 2010
The Guardian
On Friday January 29th, in a courtroom in London, Vanessa Perroncel’s life changed. She wasn’t in court. She had nobody there to speak for her. But when Mr Justice Tugendhat decided that the England football captain, John Terry, had no right to suppress a story about his alleged sex life, Perroncel found [...]
The Guardian
April 6 2010
Something very worrying has been going on at Scotland Yard. We now know that in dealing with the phone-hacking affair at the News of the World, they cut short their original inquiry; supressed evidence; misled the public and the press; concealed information and broke the law. Why?
The problem goes right back to [...]
The Guardian
April 5 2010
Police who investigated the phone-hacking scandal at the News of the World obtained previously undisclosed telephone records which showed that ‘a vast number’ of public figures had had their voicemail accessed – and then decided not to pursue the evidence, according to official papers seen by the Guardian.
The revelation – contained in [...]
The Guardian
March 10 2010
The News of the World last night was accused of buying silence in the phone-hacking scandal after they agreed to pay more than £1 million to persuade the celebrity PR agent Max Clifford to drop his legal action over the interception of his voicemail messages.
The settlement – forecast in the Guardian last [...]
The Guardian
February 25th 2010
David Cameron’s communications director, Andy Coulson, will today come under fresh pressure to defend his editorship of the News of the World and his knowledge about the illegal activities of his journalists amid new allegations about the paper’s involvement with private detectives who broke the law.
The Guardian has learned that while Coulson [...]
