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US board & investors will probably be relieved that they haven't completely embarrassed or stitched themselves up. But I can't imagine any of them will be thinking "wahey this the future of our company"

Via Facebook? Louise is....inviting her children to a wedding

Louise Mensch - she's finally admitted to her own children that she got married in secret

Allowing them to get away with saying "I don't know" too much. They should be forced to accept responsibility for what their companies do. And if they are unaware of what is going on, then they should be humiliated as poor executives in front of their US investors. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for some of these MPs to make a name for themselves and most are under-performing. They should bring some professional barristers in to do this, MPs don't have the necessary skills

It's not art, it's projectile vomit caused by listening to this shit

I find it utterly impossible to follow what mini-Murdoch says. His board meetings must be a nightmare to sit through. Presumably he has a PA who's excellent at taking minutes so attendees can figure out what they heard

that's his wife - no idea why she married the senile old billionaire

Mr Watson you don't seem to understand that I am a Bond villain of global proportions and your shitty little parliament rarely registers on my consciousness

Clearly have a strategy of getting James to do all the speaking. Well done to Tom Watson for having none of it

Murdoch & son don't seem very polished. Murdoch looks like a very old & slightly confused man. This could be fun

BBC News Channel now

"I was just a postbox for Neil Wallis' daughter's CV and had no bearing on if she would get a job" Yep because you give totally equal weight to a CV sent through the post and one personally handed to you by the boss

Murdochs start at 2.30 Shame that I'm gonna have to miss Yates getting a kicking

Agree, I've worked in a couple of companies where departments are run freely with little supervision however the bosses have always understood that ultimately they are responsible if it all goes pear-shaped. To be fair to Stephenson he has resigned so has played fair by the system. The most depressing aspect is the general acceptance that a gift of £12k to a policeman can be justified

He's definitely been screwed over by Yates but he failed to supervise him properly. He's had regular indications since 2005 that something wasn't right in the information that Yates was telling him but not once did he check.

So far Paul Stephenson has stated that there is nothing wrong in police officers accepting gifts worth £12k, that he has 100% faith in his deputy although he blames him for most of the things that have gone wrong and that he just simply didn't know what was going on. He's a shit policeman & even worse manager

I always liked David Carradine's speech about Superman in Kill Bill - that he was the only superhero who wore a mask when he was human. Unfortunately I don't think any of the films have ever explored this in an interesting way

From Guardian A Labour MP has written to Sir Gus O'Donnell asking for an investigation into the allegation that David Cameron broke the ministerial code, the Daily Telegraph reports. John Mann has suggested that, in having dinner with James Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks on 23 December last year (when the government was still considering News Corporation's bid for BSkyB), Cameron broke the section of the code saying that "ministers must ensure that no conflict arises, or appears to arise, between their public duties and their private interests". Number 10 has an independent adviser on ministerial interests who can investigate complaints of this kind. But, as the Telegraph points it, it is the prime minister himself who decides if a complaint merits investigation. Cameron will have to rule on himself. I think we can predict what he will say. Met investigating the Met. PM rules on himself. Tinpot dictators around the world must be standing & applauding the rules implemented by the Mother of Parliaments

Could be wrong but I thought that they didn't start looking at us until August which I'd describe as last minute for a deal this size. Regardless, point was that we could have done a lot worse than have FSG as owners

Fully agree that the size of the Carroll deal was an oddity but maybe done for different reasons. It's a big shift to 9 players on every teamsheet being homegrown and could do some very strange things to the transfer market, particularly if clubs aren't prepared for it. Ourselves & the mancs might be reasoning that the homegrown premium is going to sky rocket even more in the next couple of years and it's worth buying now

That's the beauty of Shanks, he's an ideal, a utopian dream that most of us mere mortals couldn't possibly live up to. We're still better for having him as an aspiration though

From memory I think Lim did get pretty close. Broughton clearly favoured FSG but if FSG hadn't been bidding (& their involvement was pretty last minute) then Broughton would have been left with just Lim's bid and a rapidly approaching deadline from RBS. Anyway, it's another reason to be very glad that FSG own us

Phil Jones deal shows Fifa new rule drives up price of English talent | Football | The Guardian Manchester United and Liverpool have been forced by new regulatory developments at Fifa and Uefa to inflate their bids for Phil Jones and Jordan Henderson respectively. Less than a decade ago the £20m and £16m that it has required to take Henderson, 20, to Anfield and Jones, 19, to Old Trafford would have broken the British transfer record. Today that combined £36m buys you a single England cap. Clearly, in England, young English talent comes at a premium. There is a simple explanation for this: Fifa is working on introducing a system whereby nine players on every 18-man squad sheet must be homegrown. Buried amid the eulogies for their president, Sepp Blatter, national associations at Fifa's congress this month voted in favour of new youth development measures. Fifa's player‑status committee, headed by the former Football Association chairman, Geoff Thompson, is holding discussions with national associations, the European Clubs Association and Fifpro as it works up the new rules. Domestic leagues have not yet been invited to have their say. Thompson told the congress: "We must use the qualities associated with the 6+5 concept [a proposal under which clubs would have been compelled to field at least six homegrown players] in trying to manage a workable solution." The 6+5 idea died a death amid opposition from clubs and, more importantly, from the European Union, which outlawed regulation according to players' nationality. The compromise agreement football struck with the EU was for eight players from every 25-man squad to have been developed within the fielding club's national association. Until now, Fifa youth-development regulation has not impacted on team selection. But if talks on the new regulations develop as Fifa hopes, then it will. New legislation is expected to be only about a year away. No wonder Henderson and Jones have cost so much. I presume that we're taking these possible rules seriously. And whilst prices are inflated, presumably future re-sale values will be as well

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Makes me a bit more appreciative of FSG