Brett has already left the Times and he has a private consultancy called Early Resolution providing legal advice to, er, newspapers.

His advice to media clients eager to avoid libel actions or to overturn injunctions is probably to lie.

The best moment was when Leveson was going back over Brett's witness statements regarding the Times v Horton injunction and Brett whined that Leveson was being too precise about the words he (Brett) had used. 'Precise?', Leveson thundered, 'I'm being precise because this is a court of law you lying fucktard'.

I have had to paraphrase Leveson's response because I was laughing so much I missed a few words.

Report on it in the Times today did a lot to stress that he is their *former* legal adviser. Meanwhile the 'bigger boys were doing it' defence is getting trotted out on the opinion pages.

British press - the best in the world, we're constantly being told by, erm, the British press - behaving like a bunch of naughty schoolboys. It'd be funny if it wasn't so tragic.

Or do I mean that the other way round?

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Murdoch did meet Thatcher before Times takeover, memo reveals

The media mogul requested a meeting at Chequers to personally lobby the PM, and explicitly briefed her on his bid – something long denied by both sides.

I heard this and honestly thought we had already heard the worst. They were investigating a serial killer ffs!

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When Rebekah of Brooks resigned with the words "Much worse yet to come" I wondered what they had on her that could be worse than Dead White Girl Syndrome. That rumour (that died fairly quickly) regarding 9/11 victims seemed to be the only way things could escalate. After that I forgot about it for a while and just enjoyed the show, but apparently News International is the corporation that keeps on giving.

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Yeah, "but in the scheme of things the deaths of these five women is no great loss" (© R. Littlejohn).

It reflects just as badly on The Mirror.

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Funny how there are no comments on that vintage Littleprick column...

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I especially enjoyed the part where he points out violent death is a "professional hazard" that comes with being a prostitute. Perhaps he should take his unique brand of controversial, truth-seeking investigative reporting to one of those Third World dictatorships he's always saying we should emulate. Then he could take the professional hazards on the chin with characteristic dignity.

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To write a piece that is so offensive that's it's still making people angry six years later really does require a special kind of talent for cuntery.

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I refuse to accept that! I've seen his photograph and he is definitely imbued with the fresh-faced enthusiasm only youth can bring. Littlejohn wouldn't lie.

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From the report:

Not denying it then.

Seems Rebekah Brooks has been arrested again, this time in relation to payments made to MoD staff.

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