But Neville Thurlbeck [ see my past blog ] appears to be a man of high moral and ethical standards. Here’s what he told Lord Leveson on Dec. 12^th 2011

My experience of the News of the World is that it was a highly professional organisation.  It was staffed by some of the best journalists on Fleet Street, who worked with great diligence and integrity, and continue to do so. I was proud to work alongside all of my colleagues.  I have enormous respect for all of them. You know, there may have been a small caucus of people who gave us a bad reputation now.  Unfortunately, the bulk of those very decent journalists have been tainted by that and ae now finding it extremely difficult to get work.  But I have to say that my experience of working with the vast majority of the people on the News of the World was wonderful.  They are an exemplary bunch of people who could work on any newspaper of the world.

Trust him, he knows.

James had to go now, to support Rupert Rumplechops’ future claim that he reacted to clear up the mess in order to plead his innocence to authorities in the US, where he is no more liked than he is here.

James deserves no prizes or rewards for lying to the British people through Parliament and his removal has been widely welcomed.

In the meantime, he’s still running a much more important arm of News Corp, and still making a pile of dough. Unlike his sacked former star hack at the Screws, Neville “Onan the Barbarian” Thurlbeck, who (the Press Gazette tells us with a wicked shiver of schadenfreude),  is to become Theatre Critic on  the Surrey Comet,

Onan  says, ‘In these days of flagging interest in the arts the Surrey Comet is a crucial medium to advertise and get the message across about the artistic lifeblood that’s rich and flowing through the borough.’

I don’t know about that, but he personally took a great deal of professional interest in flogging when he was busily digging up, embellishing or just inventing some of the grubbiest sensations his old employer ever published.

In case he requests any back-stage interviews with female members of the cast, I should refer the theatre’s management to my last post on Neville the Barbarian.  http://www.peterburden.net/archives/900

For what sinister reason is Mahmood immune to the police’s attention?

Does he know more about their evil deeds than any of the other ‘journalists’ on the defunct rag? It’s unlikely that he’s a member of the same Masonic Lodge, unless the Masons are now recruiting from ethnic minorities.

Why have News International continued to employ him at the Sunday Times? Why did the Leveson Inquiry grant him a non-visible hearing?

Why did the Crown Prosecution service allow the Pakistani cricketers to be tried for a victimless offence and a non-crime which Mahmood had fabricated?

Incredibly, that is what he expected the Commons CMS committee to believe.

If I were them, I’d be feeling deeply insulted.

Now it only needs  the Fake Sheikh to have  the hood of his djellabah grasped  for us to call  ’HOUSE!’.

Baroness Peta Buscombe was mad to take over the Cup of Hemlock that is the  Chair of the Press Complaints Commission, and now she’s paying the price.

She’s cocked up the job from start to finish, been bamboozled by the Screws,  sued for libel by a leading media lawyer, made herself look ridiculous and – one good thing – she’s almost certainly brought this useless institution to the point of its overdue execution.

Your executives Myler, Crone, Kuttner, Coulson, Hinton all told the CMS committee in 2009 that there had only been one rogue reporter, Clive Goodman – the Royal editor – and continued asserting this, as did you, right up until 2010.

Are you telling us that you and your executives believed that the extensive phone hacking of Gordon Taylor and his assistants by Mulcaire was ordered by Clive Goodman, the one rogue reporter?

And did they (and you) believe that Goodman also instructed Mulcaire to hack into the phones of Skylet Andrew (a footballers’ agent), Simon Hughes, and Max Clifford, all of whom were named as victims of Mulcaire’s hacking when he was convicted in January 2007?

If they didn’t believe this (and they could not possibly have believed it), they all lied to Parliament when they re-asserted their claim that Goodman was the only guilty reporter.

The obfuscation, the hesitation, the avoidance of direct answers, the high pitched protesting whine, as well as the inconsistency of fact when James Murdoch appeared before the committee on Tuesday were all convincing indicators that he too has now lied to parliament.

Restricted as they were by sub judice topics in the case of Rebekah Testarossa, they might have done better to leave this session until the future, when she would not have been in a position to bat away their questions with another clutch of well-honed lies, the way all her colleagues did in 2009.

They could have asked…..

When, in May 2006, she saw that the News of the World carried a story in which they reproduced a verbatim message left by Prince William on Prince Harry’s voicemail, did she not question to the legality of the means by which the story was found? Or did she just think that Coulson, Thurlbeck and Goodman hade made it up? When she became CEO of News International did she not question News of the World managing editor, Stuart Kuttner about it?

Why was News editor Greg Miskiw sent packing in July 2005, shortly after the Gordon Taylor story went wrong?

Why was Stuart Kuttner sacked in 2009, the day before the Guardian revealed the Taylor pay off.

Why was Tom Crone sacked two weeks ago? (Yes, they asked her but they didn’t challenge the absurdity of her mendacious reply.)

Let us hope that the Metropolitan Police are less lenient in their questioning. At least we know Rebekah’s not a member of the same Lodge as the Senior MET Freemasons – that august charitable organisation still doesn’t allow women members – or does it, and they just haven’t told us?

Watch this trowel.