Roll up! Rebecca Brooks and Andy Coulson in the tumbrils

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It's going to last six months.

At least Andy turned up with a poppy on. Nice touch. Bit early though.

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Peter Jukes is much better. Thanks. As Edis says, surely Coulson would have asked Goodman what the hell he was on about?

There's a bit in Blackadder where a woman drops Baldrick in it and he says: 'I don't know what you're talking about, strange lady I've never met before.'

Oh dear trying not to think of the practicalities of all that.

Back to Twatter-thanks for the links.

X posted with everyone. I was referring to bumphoning.

What a bloody fab thread

I cannot even begin to express how much I am enjoying this trial. Are we really going to be treated in this way every day for six months? Lucky lucky us

Is anybody else amazed that all these old emails which are providing us with such delight were never deleted?

(or will they have been deleted in the usual way, but retrieved from hard drives?)

I've just seen the "Do his phone" on the news. It's apparently from AC to Edmondson (?) What a silly thing to do. :o

You know that version of Sod's Law which states the item you really wanted to keep was the item that didn't get backed up?

Seems it works the other way round, too...

I was just wondering exactly the same thing about the emails.

Some of them are 10 years old, surely they wouldn't have the same computers for all that time? I wonder if the police have been able to access all email accounts and retrieve everything?

I didn't know Calum Best had any children!

IIRC, there was stuff lurking on back-up systems, possibly in deep storage.

So very, very far removed from the days when getting the negative in a brown envelope was enough to be (fairly) confident your secret was safe.

The letter RB wrote to AC after he ended their affair was in a Word Document, I think.

For a group of very clever people they've been either very dim or very arrogant, haven't they?

I think the emails were handed over by News International as a last ditch attempt to keep contagion from the really important people - the Murdochs.

They started out shitting on the little people and as it got worse it moved further up the chain.

I imagine Coulson and the rest feel quite let down

At least Rupert said some nice things about his old friend Les Hinton as he pulled up the rope ladder. Hinton had to resign from the US arm of the company - no doubt with a nice pay-off.

But as he was ignorant of all wrong-doing while doing the job Rebekah Brooks took, he's not been charged with anything.

They started out shitting on the little people

I shouldn't have said that. I believe the correct form of words would be 'informing the police of allegations of serious wrong-doing as soon as we became aware of it, like the good citizens we are.'

Christmas really has come early.

happy sigh

They're talking about hacking Prince Harry now.

They wanted to turn Harry asking his ex SAS, private secretary about the Iran Embassy siege, into 'Harry asks private secretary to write his essay'. They are scum aren't they?

British justice is a very beautiful thing.

Arrogant, I think. Friends in high places & all that. & they did get away with it for ages - goodman & creepy mulcaire were 'rogue' & they were paid to take the rap (?) & that was supposed to be the end of it

But the guardian kept digging away in the background iirc. It was the shock horror of the Milly Dowler voicemail revelation that blew it all up again?

I do hope some senior police will be next

I want to learn to knit. JUST fOR THIS.

Serves them both bloody right. Now they will know how it feels to have your private life splashed all over the red tops.

Tee hee, TheOne...why do you think I chose my username???

Indeed

nemesis, innit

Mulcaire really does have feral teeth.

You'd think on that sort of money he'd have got them fixed.

BTW, that's the best pic I could find. In all the others he keeps his trap firmly shut. I'm sure the defendants would want it to stay that way.

An exhibition of some of our earlier knitwork:

Les tricoteuses
Les Tricoteuses - Part Deux
Les Tricoteuses part three

Just flicked through to remind myself exactly how much power these people wielded, and how utterly cocksure they were.