tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46748563294719289092013-12-17T13:47:20.259ZNeville ThurlbeckNeville Thurlbeckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869423580982828835noreply@blogger.comBlogger98125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4674856329471928909.post-24106238904800755112013-03-12T14:42:00.000Z2013-04-30T12:27:50.786+01:00Discussing Huhne and Pryce on BBC Radio UlsterDESPITE being the catalyst which brought down Huhne and Pryce, I have great sympathy for their plight.<br /><br />I talk about it here on BBC Radio Ulster on the Talkback show hosted by Wendy Austin.<br /><br />The debate starts at 14mins 30secs.<br /><br />Feel free to post your comments.<br /><br />http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01r5mlx/Talkback_12_03_2013/<br /><br /><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> 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Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} </style><![endif]--> <br /><div class="MsoNormal">Neville Thurlbeck is the founder of<a href="http://www.talentgb.com/"> TalentGB</a>, an on-line variety theatre of showreels of artistes of every genre.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><br /><br />Twitter: @nthurlbeckNeville Thurlbeckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869423580982828835noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4674856329471928909.post-58366771647854345002013-03-11T14:43:00.000Z2013-09-09T09:57:21.438+01:00Chris Huhne and Vicky Pryce. 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mso-para-margin-right:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0cm; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} </style><![endif]--> <br /><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Note to Leveson lovers, Hacked Off and other such press censors – WARNING, graphic red-top tabloid content</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><img height="393" id="irc_mi" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/11/23/article-2065008-0DC2F22100000578-584_468x409.jpg" style="margin-top: 0px;" width="450" /> </b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Chris Huhne and Carina Trimingham </b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><img height="304" id="irc_mi" src="http://i1.dailyrecord.co.uk/incoming/article1588146.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/Chris+Huhne.jpg" style="margin-top: 45px;" width="457" /> </b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Vicky Pryce </b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">SINCE I began burbling on Twitter about the News of the World’s involvement in bringing down Chris Huhne, many have emailed asking me to reveal how we did it.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">It began in March 2009. I received a call from a young chap who claimed to have some pictures of the married Labour MP Nigel Griffiths in a compromising position with a woman in his office.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">The pictures had been discovered by a work experience lad who had been seconded to Griffiths’ office and they showed the MP with the woman dressed in her underwear and black stockings.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">We were on fairly safe ground as there was a strong public interest argument for running the story. Griffiths had carried out the tryst in his House of Commons office, thereby smashing the MPs’ code of conduct.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Worse still, he’d done it on Remembrance Day 2008, when the nation honoured its war dead.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">I raced out to meet the lad. I say, “raced”, because he’d also contacted our features department and they too were on their way. It had been a tactic of News of the World editors since the 1950s to set the features and news departments at each other's throats. We dominated the Sunday market and with no outside competition, internal competition had been an editor's tactic for 60 years. So there was no chance of the editor calling features off. May the best man win.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">On this day, my “competitor” was my colleague Dan Evans. As I sped through London traffic, I rang the contact and warned him a chap impersonating Dan Evans was en route. And that he should avoid him at all costs as he was in fact an imposter working for the Sunday Mirror who would steal his story and expose him in the paper. He had to switch off his phone and meet me at a totally different location.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">With Dan stranded and his line of communication cut off, I gathered the pictures and took them back to the office. The key to running the story was to prove the tryst took place in his House of Commons office. I memorised the scene and headed off to Westminster where I was admitted by a contact.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">It’s tricky getting access to an MPs office without an appointment. I lurked unseen outside for a few hours hoping to get a glimpse when the door opened (I always fancied I was rather good at “lurking unseen”). </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">After a few hours, I needed to take the initiative before I was rumbled. I knocked on the door, Griffiths answered and I brushed him to one side and strode purposefully into his room. “Are you the janitor?” I barked. “Certainly not”, said the Prime Minister’s best friend. “Very sorry, Wrong room then,” I replied as I turned 360 degrees and took in the scene. It was identical to the picture. Same ornaments, same litter bin, same sofa, same mock Gothic arch over the doorway. I’d seen enough to satisfy the News International lawyer and headed off leaving Griffiths looking puzzled and a little flustered.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">As I made through a corridor on my way out, a familiar face I hadn’t seen in more than two decades beamed and came towards me hand outstretched. After a quick catch-up, he finished with, “Take a look at Chris Huhne. He’s got a mistress. Don’t know who but look hard enough and you’ll find her”.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">I suppose you’re now all thinking, ‘For goodness sake, why didn’t you just start this piece by saying you were walking through the Commons when someone tipped you off about Huhne?!’ Well, I thought I’d put it into context. Like so many of my stories, they all boiled down to simply being in the right place at the right time – like a lucky centre forward. And I like a good story!</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Where to start with Huhne? He had a constituency home in Eastleigh so I put a watch on that. After a week, one Friday night, a woman who was clearly not his wife, arrived alone, lifted up a brick from the front door, took the key beneath it and let herself in.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">A short time later, Huhne arrived and knocked on the door. The woman opened it and let him in. The pair stayed there the night. The following day, we watched as they attended various functions together. It was crucial to identify who she was. It might have been a relative, although their body language said not.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">We decided to follow her to her London home and do an electoral roll check on who lived there. Following someone from Hampshire to London by car is not an easy feat and we lost her at traffic lights moments from her address.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Back to the drawing board. And back to the constituency address where I was joined by my colleague Derek Webb, a former police officer with the elite South East Regional Crime Squad and the most gifted of surveillance experts.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">A few weeks later, she was back. Same drill as the last time. But on the journey, we somehow managed keep on her tail unseen to base her at her London flat. The electoral roll showed her to be Carina Trimingham, a Lib-Dem activist who was also on his Facebook site as she’d helped him campaign on his failed leadership bid.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">An internet search also showed she’d had a gay civil marriage which had since ended.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">The story was written. But the editor Colin Myler spiked it, judging Huhne was not famous enough.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Fast forward to May 2010. The election ushered in the coalition government and Huhne suddenly found himself Climate Secretary. If not at the very centre of government, certainly close to its heart. I lobbied hard to resurrect the story and Myler agreed we should look at it again.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Back to Eastleigh. And like a lucky centre forward, five minutes later, Ms Trimingham arrived. Quickly followed by Huhne. They stayed the night, leaving separately in the morning.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">The following Sunday, the story ran on the front page of the News of the World. Huhne strolled into his Clapham home and told his wife Vicky their 26 year marriage was over and walked calmly off to the gym.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Distraught and confused and still in love with her husband, she set about plotting her revenge and reveal how Huhne had organised for her to take three speeding points on his behalf to escape a driving ban.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Isabel Oakeshott, the Sunday Times political editor, exposed the crime with a carefully crafted strategy of trust combined with clinical, journalistic efficiency.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">So this is her story. I tip my hat to her.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">But it’s odd to think all this unravelling and domino effect would never have happened if a nosy teenager in 2009 hadn’t picked up the phone to me.<br /><br /><b>* Neville Thurlbeck is the founder of<a href="http://www.talentgb.com/"> TalentGB</a>, an on-line directory of entertainers and their showreels.</b><br /><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-GB</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> 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mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0cm; mso-para-margin-right:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0cm; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} </style><![endif]--> <br /><h2 class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>An exclusive dressing room chat with a comedy legend on his farewell tour</b></span></span></h2><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yEd1aAl_em4/UTOake99f9I/AAAAAAAAAfA/8pftA4VdML0/s1600/Phil+Cool+&+NT.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yEd1aAl_em4/UTOake99f9I/AAAAAAAAAfA/8pftA4VdML0/s640/Phil+Cool+&+NT.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><b>With Phil Cool</b></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">In 30 years of journalism, it’s been my great privilege to see some of the funniest men on the planet perform live.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">I saw Norman Wisdom and Frankie Howerd at the peak of their powers. I watched Bob Hope bring the house down at the Royal Albert Hall. And I sat ringside at the dawn of Stephen Fry’s career with the Cambridge Footlights in 1982 when the thunderous applause propelled him from the Edinburgh Fringe into eternal stardom.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">But none of these comic legends managed to get the needle on the laughometer to swing quite as far into the red zone of hilarity as Phil Cool. If his audience was an engine, it would be in danger of blowing a gasket.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Sitting in his dressing room, Phil, 64, is showing a few more wrinkles than when we saw him in his prime time TV pomp. But he’s still boyishly good looking, laid back and self-deprecating. And his extraordinary energy seemingly undiminished, despite major heart surgery two years ago.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">He revealed why, after 37 years on the road, he is finally calling it a day with his latest UK tour - The Final Curtain Tour.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">In his undisguised Chorley twang, he says: “I’m fed up with all the traffic on the roads. Even travelling as a passenger in a car drives me mad. It’s not that I’m not up to it. I was back up in front of an audience nine weeks after a quadruple by-pass.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">“I’m fit and go to the gym two or three times a week and the heart is good.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">“But it’s time to call it a day. I’ll be 65 this year so it will coincide with that landmark too.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">“I’ve had a great time but I am getting a lot of enjoyment out of folk singing now. So I’ll continue to do that locally, near home.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">“The problem is, comedy kills off anything else you might want to do. Once you are a comedian, no one will accept you as anything else.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">“My 18-year-old son has just started a group and I’ve advised him to avoid comedy at all costs.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">“Jasper Carrot was the same as me. He started off as a musician and adopted a funny routine and couldn’t go back.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">“So I suppose I’m going back to my first love.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">“But I’ll only do it locally, somewhere where I can go to after I’ve finished my tea!”</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fGVcefKyZE4/UTOcmWJkFOI/AAAAAAAAAfI/xtEFclGuB2o/s1600/Phil+Cool+2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fGVcefKyZE4/UTOcmWJkFOI/AAAAAAAAAfI/xtEFclGuB2o/s320/Phil+Cool+2.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">“Locally” for Phil is a farmhouse which he shares with second wife Bev in a picturesque village in Lancashire’s Trough of Bowland.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">In the 1980s and early 90s, Phil was a prime time TV comic and performed at the London Palladium in front of Prince Charles and Diana.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Since then, he has been invisible on the small screen. The pressure of coming up with 30 minutes of new material week in week out meant he had to hire writers. Phil has always written his own material and felt his act was becoming diluted by writers who couldn’t quite get his style.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Frankie Howerd was lucky, He found Eric Sykes, who could write in the Howerd style, right down to every “Oh no, look here missus” and script in every comma, pause and supposed ad-lib.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Phil Cool was too mercurial, even for a craftsman like Sykes.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">So for the past 20 years, he has been back touring the provinces, finely honing and distilling a two hour act of brilliance with several moments of undoubted comic genius.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">He wouldn’t be the first comic to shrewdly eschew the few minutes of fame brought by the small or silver screen, which renders every piece of material instantly old hat. Max Miller was able to do the same slowly evolving routine to mass adulation in the theatres for 30 years. In fact, despite his legendary status, only a few minutes of him performing on screen exist. The same is true for other pre-war comics such as Frank Randle and Norman Evans.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">This is the company in which Phil Cool belongs, with a dash of Rory Bremner, Jim Carrey and Lee Evans thrown in.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ouIcpCVtseU/UTOctkxdu1I/AAAAAAAAAfQ/_hjQF988y1U/s1600/Phil+Cool+3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ouIcpCVtseU/UTOctkxdu1I/AAAAAAAAAfQ/_hjQF988y1U/s320/Phil+Cool+3.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Phil’s routine is an avalanche of brilliantly observed impersonations in the style of the grotesque. His ability to contort his face into the shape of the person he is mimicking is startling, sometimes shocking. The funniest moment of the entire show, is an impersonation of Tony Blair, in which he says nothing at all while he transforms his face into several typical Blair expressions. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Among the dozens of impersonations, are Prince Charles, Eric Morecambe, Rolf Harris, President George W Bush, President Clinton, President Obama, Terry Wogan, Gordon Brown, John Major, David Attenborough and a ventriloquist’s dummy which has to be seen to believed. There is Jack Nicholson morphing into Bugs Bunny. And an extraordinary John Lennon in which he appears to somehow miraculously rearrange his front teeth.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Coupled with Phil’s mimicry and extraordinary “faceology”, as he calls it, is the biting satire in his own home grown material. He is never content to show you a clever impersonation without an equally clever accompanying gag, leaving you wondering in a flash which to laugh at first – a rare and priceless comic talent.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">The art of “faceology” started in 1961, when Phil was a 12-year-old schoolboy.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Phil explains: “I was sitting next to a boy called Woods and I turned to him and pulled my Quasimodo face. He got the shock of his life and shot back in his seat.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">“The teacher wanted to know what the fuss was about and, as my real surname is Martin, he screamed: ‘It’s Martin sir!’</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">“He called us both out to the front of the class and demanded to know what all the fuss was about. When his back was turned to me, I looked at the class and pulled my Quasimodo face at them and they all broke out into laughter. When the teacher turned round to look at me, I had returned to deadpan and couldn’t work out what was happening. There class were in fits of laughter.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">“That was the first time I realised I could be funny and hold an audience.”</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8QE2rurGxD0/UTOczlix1uI/AAAAAAAAAfY/cFhzaI0DjZQ/s1600/Phil+Cool+4.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8QE2rurGxD0/UTOczlix1uI/AAAAAAAAAfY/cFhzaI0DjZQ/s320/Phil+Cool+4.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Phil employs no script writers, preferring to write all his own material himself. He says: “I walk around the house talking to myself, inventing material as I go along. It’s my own act and the only thing I consult is the mirror. I do a lot of mirror consultation.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">“I do introduce new characters. The ventriloquist’s dummy routine is popular now. But it will reach a tipping point when it suddenly stops being funny. You do find that happens with comedy routines.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">“And I can’t do David Cameron. My wife said he reminds her of Basil Brush. I said, ‘that’s no good, I can’t do him either!’”</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">The Final Curtain Tour, which finishes on June 15. And if you plan just one family night out at the theatre this year and want guaranteed belly-laughs by the dozen, this is surely it. I had about 50.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GEM0PkwcW9g/UTOc5kohX1I/AAAAAAAAAfg/sy1eA0tCZFE/s1600/Phil+Cool+5.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GEM0PkwcW9g/UTOc5kohX1I/AAAAAAAAAfg/sy1eA0tCZFE/s320/Phil+Cool+5.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">For details of the show’s venues and dates see:</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.philcool.co.uk/Phil-Cool-live-performances.htm">www.philcool.co.uk/Phil-Cool-live-performances.htm</a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Phil’s forthcoming book, Phil Cool, Stand-up Chameleon, will also be announced soon on the same website.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><br /></b></div><div 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mso-para-margin-right:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0cm; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} </style><![endif]--><b> </b><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Neville Thurlbeck is the founder of <a href="http://www.talentgb.com/">TalentGB</a>, an on-line directory of showreels of artistes of every genre</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>Neville 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But it’s Wodehouse with a gin and mogadon hangover – just as funny but with the jolliness replaced by a seedy, gritty gloom.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">The characters are all given pseudonyms. But they are as real and as accurate as any I have met, even Susie herself. Every Fleet Street newsroom seems to have a Susie. A brilliant, hard grafting, hard playing, hard nosed female hack. A star in the newsroom but always struggling with a chaotic personal life. Normally they are as plain as a pikestaff with slightly over-refreshed cheeks, although Fleet Street Fox cuts a more glamorous figure.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Susie, or ‘Foxy’ as she is known, is a gifted writer. Her blog pulls in 25,000 readers a week and her style is pacy, observational and acerbic. It’s a superb read from cover to cover. I picked it up at 9am and didn’t put it down until I finished in the afternoon.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">I even missed lunch.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Which as Foxy will tell you, in Fleet Street, is unheard of.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The Diaries of a Fleet Street Fox, </span></i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">is published by Constable and available at £8.99 via all the usual outlets and also as an <a href="http://thebackbencher.co.uk/vulpine-valhalla/" id="_GPLITA_4" title="Click to Continue > by Browse to Save">ebook</a>.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"><img height="304" id="irc_mi" src="http://i3.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article1703193.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/Susie+Boniface+in+Mauritius.jpg" style="margin-top: 45px;" width="457" /> 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imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="67" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KccOLFc4JJA/UIg0JGUjr9I/AAAAAAAAAec/xl9v96a9v6Y/s320/Express+Logo.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><br />THE DAILY Express collared me for a chat about Jimmy Savile at a charity do last week and ran the following piece, which some of you may find interesting/infuriating in the light of recent events.<br /><br />http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/352682/Jimmy-Savile-made-chilling-jokes-about-child-abuse<br /><br />A perfect example of Savile 'hiding in plain sight', as Paul Gambaccini so accurately puts it.<br /><br />The charity do by the way was in aid of the James Whale Fund for Kidney Cancer. 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class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A BOLD new student newspaper venture has been launched by enterprising young journalist Jack Rivlin.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Tab, an on-line Cambridge University newspaper, has been 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The ambition is to launch in all universities, recruiting undergraduates as volunteer staff.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">At London’s City University last week, 60 new student recruits turned up to hear a talk by the Sunday Times night editor Maurice Chittenden, former Tab editor and Standard writer Joshi Herrmann and myself.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Click onto the link to hear us wittering on.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lYtCUAq-UA</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 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table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0cm; mso-para-margin-right:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0cm; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} </style><![endif]--><b> </b></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>Neville Thurlbeck is the founder of <a href="http://www.talentgb.com/">TalentGB</a>, an on-line directory of showreels of artistes of every genre</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>Neville Thurlbeckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869423580982828835noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4674856329471928909.post-83031330377313096562012-07-24T13:08:00.000+01:002012-09-17T09:53:00.913+01:00Statement on Weeting Charges<br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This statement has been released to the Press Association, via the offices of my lawyer Henri Brandman, of Henri Brandman and Co.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“Following today’s announcement that I am to be charged in relation to Operation Weeting, I would like to thank my family and friends for their undying support during the past 15 months.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“My thanks also to my lawyer Henri Brandman for his wise and calm counsel during the police investigation.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“I am most surprised and disappointed in the outcome. I have always operated under the strict guidance and advice of News International’s lawyers and under the instructions of the newspaper’s editors which will be abundantly clear when this matter comes to court.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“I will vigorously fight to clear my reputation.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“Neither I nor my lawyer will be making any further comment at this stage.”</span><br /><br /></div>Neville Thurlbeckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869423580982828835noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4674856329471928909.post-36360948505395721802012-07-09T12:13:00.000+01:002013-04-30T12:37:31.147+01:00Three Cheers for the Death of the News of the World! An Anniversary Tribute !<br /><div class="MsoNormal">RUPERT MURDOCH did much to improve the moral well being of the nation when he closed down the News of the World.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Since then, we live in a much less polluted society and our collective soul has been cleansed by the eradication of the evil staff (me) and wicked readers (yes you!).</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">In the 12 months since the paper closed, no one can have failed to notice how Britain is a finer and more noble place to live.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">No peer of the realm has committed perjury, no “happily married” MPs have been taking secret mistresses and all celebrities have chucked their class A drugs into the Thames.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">I am immensely reassured by the fact that, search as they may, not one newspaper has been able to locate a single paedophile ring to bust.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">As for gun runners, drug dealers, human traffickers and bent cricketers, I am relieved to report that, since the closure of the News of the World, my colleagues on rival newspapers have been unable to find one. They all saw the error of their ways, took Holy Orders or became outreach workers at Lambeth Council.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Why the News of the World wasn’t closed down years ago, I’ll never understand.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">To think that seven generations of journalists spent 168 years fooling around, exposing the misdemeanours and crimes of the great and the good for absolutely no reason at all. Those glittering industry awards and the biggest circulation in the world were the fruits of an elaborate hoax on the nation.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Because as soon as we left the stage, so did all the villains who decided they wouldn’t be seen dead in the Sunday Mirror. And they would rather appear in Good Housekeeping than, heaven forbid, in the fluffy Sun on Sunday.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">In 1995, we kicked up a bit of a stink when a judge let off some crooks we had exposed. In those not-far-off times, all sorts of misguided fools used to spring to our defence, in case you’ve forgotten.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">On August 5 that year, one lad said: “I recognise the valuable role the News of the World has played in bringing criminals to book. I applaud the co-operation the police have received from the newspaper and its investigative reporters.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">“If the law is inhibiting the role played by the News of the World then I would certainly want to look at it.”<br /><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Poor deluded fool . Michael Howard was his name. What do Home Secretaries know about these things eh? And he was deadly serious when he told me. I stuck it in the paper for a bit of a joke.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">These even minded fellows in the Labour Party, especially the understated and even-keeled Tom Watson, were spot on to jump on the bandwagon of our commercial rivals at the Guardian and have us killed off. It is just what the country and the newspaper industry needed. It would have been OK if we had been found wanting and cleaned up our act. But we hadn’t.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Rupert Murdoch’s adversaries will never force him to sell off his remaining London newspaper assets. The Sun, and the colossal loss makers, the Times and Sunday Times, are very close to his heart. In fact, he has formed a special little company just for them so they can be safe and sound in perpetuity! That was really nice of him I thought. Just goes to show he’ll always be here to make sure these great institutions don’t fall into the hands of a billionaire porn merchant or an asset stripping buccaneer.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Good to see he still has a sense of humour too. Those foolish, misguided “English”, who don’t want his billions. Ho, ho, he loves a jolly little leg-pull does old Rupe! Don’t worry, he’ll be here forever, safeguarding thousands of jobs and subsidising our greatest newspaper titles by pouring in millions of pounds of his own cash.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">So relax. All’s well with the world now the old rag has been shut. And investigative journalism has never been sharper. I don’t panic because I live in the real world you see. 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table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0cm; mso-para-margin-right:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0cm; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} </style><![endif]--> <br /><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Neville Thurlbeck is the founder of <a href="http://www.talentgb.com/">TalentGB</a>, an on-line directory of showreels of artistes of every genre<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></div> <br /></div>Neville Thurlbeckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869423580982828835noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4674856329471928909.post-43688296622337072582012-06-03T13:02:00.000+01:002013-04-30T12:38:28.319+01:00120,000 Hits and I’ve Dropped a Clanger in the Belfry<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">WHILE you were all sleeping off a Sunday morning hangover, two major events were taking place in and around the ‘umble ‘ovel on the ‘ill.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Firstly, the hit total on this blog since February 9th breached the 120,000 barrier and it has now been read in 1,752 towns or cities in 125 countries.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This means were are now neck and neck in the circulation war with that esteemed mass-circulation publication Every Athlete’s Guide to Sensible Pipe Smoking. Can’t tell you how chuffed I am!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Secondly, I was despatched into the belfry by The Rev to reattach the bell-rope to one of the bells at our village church. All bats and cobwebs. And bunting? For the Jubilee? "No, the relief of Mafeking!"</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This was my first task as the brand new bell-ringer in this small enclave of Esher, Surrey.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">It was the first time any bell-ringer has had to do this since they were installed in 1953, which we thought could be a bad omen. Lots of windy steps up the rower followed by a dizzying vertical ladder climb to the belfry.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">After hooking up the bell, I scrambled down again to practice what I’d been taught by the retiring incumbent who has been doing it for 50 years and must have biceps like Popeye and a punch that would sink the Bismarck.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Lots of overenthusiastic clanging and lots of mistakes as I have to control all six bells single-handedly using ropes and pulleys. At the moment, I’m more Norman Wisdom than Quasimodo – I’m sure there’s going to be cartoon disaster with me catapulting up the bell tower and striking bottom C with my head. Or worse still, top C with my bottom.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Am now avidly reading up on different peal formations. Sunday mornings in the village will never be the same again you lucky people!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I’ve a couple of major projects on the go at the moment which I will reveal to you all later. I’m effectively working flat out every day which is leaving very little time for blogging and tweeting so apologies for being a little quiet recently.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Thank you all for reading and for all your emails too.</span><br /><br /><b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-GB</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> 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Style","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>Neville Thurlbeck is the founder of <a href="http://www.talentgb.com/">TalentGB</a>, an on-line directory of showreels of artistes of every genre</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div>Neville Thurlbeckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869423580982828835noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4674856329471928909.post-73133383522236344572012-05-22T00:35:00.000+01:002013-04-30T12:39:54.311+01:00Talking2Minds - Bruce Launches our Summer Campaign With Kilimanjaro Climb<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Z1WI4j6iHTo/T7p-3V2NHlI/AAAAAAAAAds/Vlpx3jEa6eA/s1600/talking2minds+logo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="92" kba="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Z1WI4j6iHTo/T7p-3V2NHlI/AAAAAAAAAds/Vlpx3jEa6eA/s320/talking2minds+logo.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SSLXlypOEoM/T7p-9lQ0r9I/AAAAAAAAAd0/rnfJCe0leag/s1600/Bruce.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="212" kba="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SSLXlypOEoM/T7p-9lQ0r9I/AAAAAAAAAd0/rnfJCe0leag/s320/Bruce.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bruce with wife Mandy and daughter Jessica</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 217;">TALKING2MINDS is launching a summer campaign to urge the nation to do a sponsored event to help sufferers of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 217;">Brave volunteer Bruce Martin is kick starting our mission with a bold attempt to climb Mount Kilimanjaro.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 217;">Bruce hopes our nation of imaginative ‘sponsored eventers’ will think about our sick servicemen and women when they are deciding who to donate their money to.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 217;">In just four years, Talking2Minds has treated 390 PTSD sufferers with a 97% success rate.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 217;">Bruce, 46, will be starting his eight-day assent of the 19,300ft mountain in Tanzania on October 6th and you can donate by clicking the links at the bottom of the page.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 217;">To prepare for the tough assent, Bruce works out most days in the gym and is a keen amateur boxer. He is also doing a lot of fell walking in the Lake District.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 217;">He said:</span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 217;"> “<span style="background: white;">I am doing it to raise money and awareness for the charity that I'm so passionate about - Talking2Minds. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 217;">“<span style="background: white;">In my opinion the suffering caused by PTSD does not yet have a high enough profile in the UK and I want to do my small bit to change that.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="background: white; color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 217;">“We all want to save lives, prevent suicides and help our veterans move on from the hidden injuries of the mind that are so inadequately understood in our society.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 217;">Bruce lives in Worcester with his wife Mandy and their nine-year-old daughter Jessica. He specialises in delivering anti-stress programmes to companies.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="background: white; color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 217;">More and more servicemen and women are coming back from gruelling combat on the front line in Afghanistan with severe PTSD symptoms.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="background: white; color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 217;">And there are many more sufferers from other conflicts such as Iraq, Bosnia and the Falklands.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="background: white; color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 217;">Many fall into alcohol and drug abuse to escape the torment.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="background: white; color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 217;">Marriages, careers and lives are shattered along the way.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="background: white; color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 217;">Tragically, many have committed suicide.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="background: white; color: #262626; font-family: 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class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="background: white; color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 217;">Our founder Rob Paxman, an SAS veteran and former PTSD sufferer, said: “Bruce is doing a magnificent job of raising our charity’s profile and we send him our grateful thanks and wish him a safe climb.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="background: white; color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 217;">“If you are doing a sponsored event this summer, please think of Talking2Minds and the work we are doing.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="background: white; color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 217;">"<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 217;">Every pound that is donated will be used to help sufferers and family members back to health."</span></span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 217;"></span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="background: white; color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 217;">To donate to Bruce’s Mount Kilimanjaro climb, go to his donation page here:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman 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mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0cm; mso-para-margin-right:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0cm; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} </style><![endif]--> <br /><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Neville Thurlbeck is the founder of<a href="http://www.talentgb.com/"> TalentGB</a>, an on-line directory of showreels of artistes of every genre</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><b> </b> </span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div>Neville Thurlbeckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869423580982828835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4674856329471928909.post-87348863561208184992012-05-20T22:18:00.000+01:002012-05-21T23:40:48.566+01:00La Bête Humaine - at the British Film Institute<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eSpT5QNHwiY/T7lZhqH2mHI/AAAAAAAAAdY/-1kot0mRhjo/s1600/BFI+Logo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="386" kba="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eSpT5QNHwiY/T7lZhqH2mHI/AAAAAAAAAdY/-1kot0mRhjo/s400/BFI+Logo.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">JEAN Renoir’s dark, disturbing psychological thriller, La Bête Humaine, has launched a season of work by French actor Jean Gabin by playing to a sell-out house at the British Film Institute.</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">Unfettered by the constraints of the Hays Code in the USA at the time, Renoir gives full reign to the murderous brutality and seething, brooding sexuality of the characters in Emile Zola’s novel.</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">In this 1938 film, Gabin gives one of the best performances of his career as the train driver Jacques Lantier who witnesses a murder but remains silent to protect the killer’s wife, Séverine, with whom he has fallen in love.</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">Séverine lures Lantier into an affair and persuades him to murder her husband.</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">But she doesn’t bargain for Lantier’s mental anguish which sees him spiral into an emotional abyss, where he simmers, glowers and burns until he kills her in a fit of despair.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">Gabin plays his role with understated menace. Renoir was fond of saying of his favourite actor: </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">“Gabin could express the most violent emotion with a mere quiver of his impassive face.”</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">Simone Simon, plays the duplicitous Séverine with all the feline slyness of a French Margaret Lockwood (she even shares her distinctive centre parting).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">Most of the action takes place in or around trains, giving the movie a rhythm of relentless inevitability as the characters hurtle along briskly and unstoppably to their preordained termini. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">Renoir's masterful use of foreboding shadows and prying close-ups and Gabin's tortured and disturbing performance which lurches in and out of an increasingly dangerous psychosis, leave us in no doubt that only a desperate tragedy awaits the central characters.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">The film is a classic of the pessimistic realism which was growing as a genre in France in the 1930s and which lay the foundations for the film noir of the following decade.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div> <br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JmKc7tBERms/T7lZ2Y6jmWI/AAAAAAAAAdg/1Bi45xuipnk/s1600/gabin.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="468" kba="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JmKc7tBERms/T7lZ2Y6jmWI/AAAAAAAAAdg/1Bi45xuipnk/s640/gabin.bmp" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Bookman Old Style;"></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: black;">Jean Gabin as </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d;">Lantier</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d;"> with Simone Simon as Séverine</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;"></span></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">As an interesting aside, in the foyer afterwards, an elderly gent approached me in that affable, uninhibited way elderly gents do and announced he had last seen the film in 1940 before proudly announcing he was 90.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">I quickly calculated that he had been 18 at the time and told him that my last viewing had been in 1979, when I too was 18.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">Remarkably, we had both been surprised at how different our reaction to the film had been as teenagers.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">As youths, we had watched a thriller with romantic interest thrown in, a kind of tragic version of Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes, which was made in the same year and also set on a train.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">But as grown men – 33 years later for me and 72 for him – we had watched something which had disturbed and saddened us. Not an adventure film but a lament for the frailty of human nature. “The film hasn’t changed but you have!” as he put it. And rather well I thought.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;"><strong>The Jean Gabin season runs at the BFI until May 31. This film was a sell out and the others are selling out fast too.</strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;"><strong>Films on show are: </strong><a href="http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/bfi_southbank/film_programme/may_seasons/jean_gabin_workingclass_hero_to_godfather/le_chat"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><strong>Le Chat</strong></span></a><strong>, </strong><a href="http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/bfi_southbank/film_programme/may_seasons/jean_gabin_workingclass_hero_to_godfather/des_gens_sans_imp"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><strong>Des Gens Sans Importance</strong></span></a><strong>, </strong><a href="http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/bfi_southbank/film_programme/may_seasons/jean_gabin_workingclass_hero_to_godfather/le_jour_se_l%C3%A8ve"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><strong>Le Jour se Lève</strong></span></a><strong>, </strong><a href="http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/bfi_southbank/film_programme/may_seasons/jean_gabin_workingclass_hero_to_godfather/maigret_tend_un_p"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><strong>Maigret tend un Piège</strong></span></a><strong>, </strong><a href="http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/bfi_southbank/film_programme/may_seasons/jean_gabin_workingclass_hero_to_godfather/melodie_en_sousso"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><strong>Melodie en Sous-sol</strong></span></a><strong>, </strong><a href="http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/bfi_southbank/film_programme/may_seasons/jean_gabin_workingclass_hero_to_godfather/p%C3%A9p%C3%A9_le_moko"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><strong>Pépé le Moko</strong></span></a><strong>, </strong><a href="http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/bfi_southbank/film_programme/may_seasons/jean_gabin_workingclass_hero_to_godfather/le_plaisir"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><strong>Le Plaisir</strong></span></a><strong>, </strong><a href="http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/bfi_southbank/film_programme/may_seasons/jean_gabin_workingclass_hero_to_godfather/le_quai_des_brume"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><strong>Le Quai des Brumes</strong></span></a><strong>, </strong><a href="http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/bfi_southbank/film_programme/may_seasons/jean_gabin_workingclass_hero_to_godfather/razzia_sur_la_chn"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><strong>Razzia sur la Chnouf</strong></span></a><strong>, </strong><a href="http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/bfi_southbank/film_programme/may_seasons/jean_gabin_workingclass_hero_to_godfather/touchez_pas_au_gr"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><strong>Touchez pas au Grisbi</strong></span></a><strong>, </strong><a href="http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/bfi_southbank/film_programme/may_seasons/jean_gabin_workingclass_hero_to_godfather/la_travers%C3%A9e_de_p"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><strong>La Traversée de Paris</strong></span></a><strong>.</strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;"><strong>To book, go to: </strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><strong><span lang="EN" style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/bfi_southbank/film_programme/may_seasons/jean_gabin_workingclass_hero_to_godfather</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;"></span></strong></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />Neville Thurlbeckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869423580982828835noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4674856329471928909.post-74294875593417327952012-05-14T13:13:00.003+01:002013-04-30T12:41:59.797+01:00Cambridge Union Address<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-i3sV9EUQrOk/T7D2eX_7CgI/AAAAAAAAAc4/Lqoqls9R2SQ/s1600/cantab+Union+logo.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" dba="true" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-i3sV9EUQrOk/T7D2eX_7CgI/AAAAAAAAAc4/Lqoqls9R2SQ/s320/cantab+Union+logo.bmp" width="320" /></a></div><div class="authors" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: auto 0cm;"><br /></div><div class="authors" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: auto 0cm;"><br /></div><div class="authors" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: auto 0cm;"><br /></div><div class="authors" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: auto 0cm;"><br /></div><div class="authors" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: auto 0cm;"><br /></div><div class="authors" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: auto 0cm;"><br /></div><div class="authors" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: auto 0cm;"><br /></div><div class="authors" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: auto 0cm;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-k8pVsOdndt0/T7D5QMoNjaI/AAAAAAAAAdE/d4dqsQ_1Rzg/s1600/nev+union2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" dba="true" height="460" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-k8pVsOdndt0/T7D5QMoNjaI/AAAAAAAAAdE/d4dqsQ_1Rzg/s640/nev+union2.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Addressing the Cambridge Union on May 9, 2012 (Pic, Press Association)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div class="authors" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: auto 0cm;"><br /></div><div class="authors" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: auto 0cm;"><br /></div><div class="authors" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: auto 0cm;"><br /></div><div class="authors" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: auto 0cm;"><br /></div><div class="authors" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: auto 0cm;"><br /></div><div class="authors" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: auto 0cm;"><br /></div><div class="authors" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: auto 0cm;"><br /></div><div class="authors" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: auto 0cm;"><br /></div><div class="authors" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: auto 0cm;"><br /></div><div class="authors" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: auto 0cm;"><br /></div><div class="authors" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: auto 0cm;"><br /></div><div class="authors" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: auto 0cm;"><br /></div><div class="authors" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: auto 0cm;"><br /></div><div class="authors" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: auto 0cm;"><br /></div><div class="authors" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: auto 0cm;"><br /></div><div class="authors" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: auto 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">MY WARM thanks to the Cambridge Union Society for their invitation to address them on, "Tabloid Journalism - Crisis and Reform".</span></div><div class="authors" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: auto 0cm;"><br /></div><div class="authors" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: auto 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">I enjoyed myself hugely and the standard of questioning afterwards showed how well informed the members are.</span></div><div class="authors" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: auto 0cm;"><br /></div><div class="authors" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: auto 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Thankyou too for the superb hospitality afterwards and for a fun evening.</span></div><div class="authors" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: auto 0cm;"><br /></div><div class="authors" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: auto 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The address is now available for all colleges and universities.</span></div><div class="authors" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: auto 0cm;"><br /></div><div class="authors" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: auto 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The 50 minute talk covers how the crisis unfolded and how tabloid journalism needs to radically reform in order to survive.</span></div><div class="authors" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: auto 0cm;"><br /></div><div class="authors" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: auto 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">To book this talk, contact me on <a href="mailto:n.thurlbeck@yahoo.co.uk">n.thurlbeck@yahoo.co.uk</a></span></div><div class="authors" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: auto 0cm;"><br /></div><div class="authors" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: auto 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Here is a small sample of reviews below:</span></div><div class="authors" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: auto 0cm;"><br /></div><div class="authors" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: auto 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">"Astute predictions on the fate of the newspaper industry had the audience markedly engrossed. On the future of the British press, Thurlbeck’s predictions were particularly interesting and even provocative.” <span class="author"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Natalie Gil, of Varsity</b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">.</b></span></div><div class="authors" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: auto 0cm;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">"Mr Thurlbeck attracted a large audience at a time when students are under a lot of exam pressure and the reaction to the talk was extremely positive.” <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ian Cooper, the Cambridge Union Society’s Head of Press.</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 13.5pt;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif";">“We were delighted to have Neville Thurlbeck address our members on Wednesday 9th May. His speech was incredibly topical.” <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Juan Zober de Francisco Rasheed, Events Officer, Cambridge Union Society.</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 13.5pt;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">"He was interesting on the future of the tabloid press from an economic perspective and responded to questions astutely.” <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Angus Dickson, a second year linguist.</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 13.5pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><s><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">@</span></s><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">nthurlbeck just gave a brilliant talk <s>@</s>cambridgeunion. Very exciting (and topical) stuff. Press release soon! <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Cambridge Union spokesman on Twitter.</b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="https://twitter.com/#!/OscarWGrut"><s><span style="color: #66b5d2;">@</span></s>OscarWGrut </a>“Great interview w/ <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/nthurlbeck"><s><span style="color: #66b5d2;">@</span></s>nthurlbeck</a> and great talk from him at the Union. He called for tabloid reform saying style and tone was 'antiquated'.” <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Oscar Williams-Grut of The Tab on Twitter.</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">And finally! <span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-no-proof: yes;">@</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">AdamCGray “@</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://whotalking.com/twitter/natalierosegil" target="_self"><span style="color: #099233; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">natalierosegil</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Bookman 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Thurlbeckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869423580982828835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4674856329471928909.post-80231130136865769262012-05-12T13:35:00.000+01:002013-04-30T12:43:05.182+01:00Cambridge Union SplashLITTLE did I know that my trip to address the Cambridge Union this week would result in a front page splash for the Daily Mail.<br /><br />And no, it wasn't about me sending the students to sleep as I droned on at the lectern.<br /><br />After the speech ended, the Union organisers very kindly laid on a really splendid dinner.<br /><br />Sitting next to me was the former editor of The Tab, the excellent Cambridge on-line journal, Kieran Corcoran.<br /><br />Kieran, an English undergraduate, had found himself a great scoop for The Tab and was justifiably proud. Female undergrads are being offered £750 by a firm to become egg donors, raising the grim prospect of genetically engineering 'superbabies'.<br /><br />Not wanting him to deprive the University journal of this astonishing revelation, I insisted that as soon as it was published, he picked up the phone to the Daily Mail and sold them the story.<br /><br />He did and it is today's front page splash.<br /><br />Well done Kieran. I think we shall be hearing a lot more from this bright, tenacious fellow in the future.<br /><br />His article is also on-line here:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2143184/Fertility-firm-offers-Cambridge-University-girls-750-eggs.html">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2143184/Fertility-firm-offers-Cambridge-University-girls-750-eggs.html</a><br /><br />* Still haven't blogged about the address yet and there have been many requests to post it all on-line. 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style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WEIIg5XfOCg/T6l81IqWrUI/AAAAAAAAAcs/QOD7Bl0sSMs/s1600/cantab+Union+logo.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" dba="true" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WEIIg5XfOCg/T6l81IqWrUI/AAAAAAAAAcs/QOD7Bl0sSMs/s200/cantab+Union+logo.bmp" width="200" /></a></div><br />MY TALK at the Cambridge Union Society tonight will focus on the urgent need for tabloid reform, in terms of tone, style, content and format, if we are to survive the coming decade as a meaningful force in journalism.<br /><br />I will examine how the tabloid industry arrived at the crisis we now face and how we can rebuild the trust of readers.<br /><br />I conclude that only reform of revolutionary proportions will save many newspapers from extinction. And that there are already early signs of that revolution beginning to take form.<br /><br />I also examine News International's role in the plot to spy on members of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee - as recently revealed in Tom Watson's book - and the significance of that committee's report into phone hacking last week.<br /><br />The impact of the Leveson Inquiry is also addressed and how it could be a springboard to creating a tabloid culture more in keeping with changing tastes and public expectations.<br /><br />The Press Association will receive excerpts today and has been granted access to the chamber, along with a photographer.<br /><b><br /></b><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> 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mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} </style><![endif]--><br /><br /><br />Neville Thurlbeckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869423580982828835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4674856329471928909.post-44567154154754326062012-05-08T01:20:00.000+01:002012-05-09T11:50:20.631+01:00Cambridge Union Society Address<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0kyVtpyoTmE/T6hmJMwvTOI/AAAAAAAAAcg/Q0Si1w1j2w4/s1600/cantab+Union+logo.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" mea="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0kyVtpyoTmE/T6hmJMwvTOI/AAAAAAAAAcg/Q0Si1w1j2w4/s200/cantab+Union+logo.bmp" width="200" /></a></div><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I’M VERY much looking forward to speaking at the Cambridge Union Society tomorrow. Since I outlined the thrust of the talk on April 23, the phone hacking news agenda has moved on significantly with the publication of the report of Parliament’s Culture, Media and Sport Committee.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The report raises several issues which need to be addressed. So some of the material I originally intended to include, has been jettisoned.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">After giving the matter careful thought, I think the most relevant approach will be to tackle, head-on, why I think tabloid journalism is in crisis, what it is like to be in the vortex of the storm and how I think we need to radically reform in order to survive.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">So fewer anecdotes about me and others and more on the pressing issues which face our industry.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I’m more than happy to have a lengthy Q&A session afterwards.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style;">The Press Association will be allocated access to the talk and the question and answer session.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This talk is also available to all schools, colleges and universities.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">For details, email me at <a href="mailto:n.thurlbeck@yahoo.co.uk">n.thurlbeck@yahoo.co.uk</a></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style;">Following demand, a flavour of the address will be published on this blog tomorrow morning and released by my press spokeswoman Hayley Barlow of Jubilee Communication </span><a href="http://jubileecommunication.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://jubileecommunication.com/</a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div>Neville Thurlbeckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869423580982828835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4674856329471928909.post-3579869620234833642012-05-04T13:43:00.000+01:002012-05-04T13:45:12.513+01:00Dial M for Murdoch - Review<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qR4lZs-wJK8/T6PNi1U2zvI/AAAAAAAAAcU/ope6WOiv0Qc/s1600/new+statesman+logo.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" mea="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qR4lZs-wJK8/T6PNi1U2zvI/AAAAAAAAAcU/ope6WOiv0Qc/s320/new+statesman+logo.bmp" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><strong>Book review. Dial M for Murdoch, by Tom Watson and Martin Hickman which appears in this week's edition of the New Statesman</strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">IN OCTOBER 2011, Tom Watson entered my house an MP. An hour later, he emerged a best selling author.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The incendiary claim that News International had ordered News of the World reporters to spy on MPs to find unsavoury facts about their private lives is one of the few new revelations in this book.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">To a newsman like me, it is a very useful and - by and large accurate - reference book of the unraveling of the phone hacking saga.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">It's what we in the trade call, "a cuttings job" - ie put together by piecing lots of information found in a good newspaper cuttings library.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The result is the first worthy and substantial account of what happened prior to and then after the discovery of the now infamous “For Neville” email.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">It was an email which was intended for me. And it ended up closing a 168-year-old newspaper.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">So the subject matter which Tom Watson discusses is of huge importance to a lot of people – especially the eight million readers and the 270 journalists who worked there.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">As a reference book it does a good job. But there is little insider information to let the reader know precisely how the crisis unfolded within the walls of Wapping. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">We learn a lot about the toll it took on Mr Watson, his marriage and his mental state.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">But it was Mr Watson’s visit to my home last year which provides him with the book’s most dramatic revelation.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The information was given to him confidentially and should not have been made public. However, our quarrel over that need not detain us here.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Realising I had handed him his best new angle, he printed it and his book hit the headlines.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">And the public now knows that at the height of the scandal, News of the World reporters were despatched to spy round the clock on the members of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The objective was to find as much embarrassing sleaze on as many members as possible in order to blackmail them into backing off from its highly probing inquiry into the phone hacking scandal.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">It was a plan hatched not by the News of the World but by several executives at News International – up the corridor in ‘Deepcarpetland’ as the area staffed by managers and pen pushers was euphemistically called.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">And it failed because the reporters dithered and procrastinated. It wasn’t journalism, it was corporate espionage. Ten days later, the plot was hastily cancelled.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Another startling revelation is that the office of News International CEO Rebekah Brooks was bugged in June last year as the hacking crisis reached fever pitch.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Watson says: “According to one well-placed News Corp source, security staff were ordered to record the times of Brooks’ entry to and exit from Thomas More Square [News International's HQ] and cleaners were warned to avoid disturbing listening devices placed under the table and by her computer in her office.”</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">I frankly doubt this claim. The ‘well placed source’ isn’t seemingly sufficiently well placed to tell us who authorised this bugging.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Whether it was News International, the News of the World or the police, none of these institutions would have been so half-witted as to inform the cleaners. A friendly bunch of ladies, mainly from Bermondsey, who, how shall we say, were rather ‘chatty’, to say the very least.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">With its hint of Hitchockian melodrama in the title, the subject matter certainly lives up to its darkly portentious front cover, rattling out tales of bugging, hacking, spying, blackmail and – en passant – a murder.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">It also records in minute detail Labour MP Tom Watson’s lonely and obsessive quest to crack the phone hacking scandal, the long walks on the moors, the long letters to officials, the long wait in wilderness.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">This is where Watson and his co author Independent journalist Martin Hickman lose their lightness of touch and the book becomes less of a thrilling read and more of a journal of record, albeit an important one at that.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">It also strains to make sinister connections between the former editor Andy Coulson and a private investigator Jonathan Rees, a man who had served time for conspiring to pervert the course of justice and facing a murder charge.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The bold claim is made: “....Coulson had worked with a notorious private investigator at the News of the World after the man’s release from a long prison term for conspiring to pervert the course of justice.”</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">I don’t think Andy Coulson had ever heard of Rees, let alone worked with him. He was hired from time to time by another executive and I wouldn’t expect an editor to be familiar with the antecedents of every one of the thousands of people who passed through our books. Others may take a different view.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The book is also littered with inaccuracies. David Cameron was able to get close to the Times editor, James Harding because he knew him from their Eton days. He didn’t. Harding went to St Paul’s. I was caught fornicating with a Dorset couple. I wasn’t. Their allegations were investigated by management and the Press Complaints Commission and I was exonerated. A video of my exploits appeared on the internet, “to the amusement of colleagues”. It didn’t. I live in a semi-detached house. I don’t.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">A book can only withstand a certain amount of careless disregard for the facts before a credibility tipping point is reached and this one manages to stay on the right side of the reader’s trust.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">But the central claim of the book is barely justified – “Rupert Murdoch was not running a normal business, but a shadow state”. It’s eye-catching but like most hyperbole, deep and meaningless.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">We are given no feeling or evidence to back up this bold advert on the back cover.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Instead, running in tandem with Watson’s dogged quest, we are presented with a detailed account of how the Guardian’s Nick Davies conducted an investigation which finally exploded News International’s ‘rogue reporter’ defence.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">And the bullish determination of lawyer Mark Lewis to discover the scale of hacking through the courts is also given due weight.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The profiles of the News of the World characters are weakly penned and vague too, showing a serious lack of insider contact.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">This absence leaves the reader with very little sense of the desperate rearguard action going on behind the scenes at the News of the World as events spiralled out of its control. There is lots of very dogged determination from very dogged people. But the effects are unseen, leaving the drama incomplete and slow paced.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">But as a journal of record it is sound and worthy.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Dial M for Murdoch is only half the story because only half the story has been told.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Its sequel will be the explosive revelations in court, should any trials take place.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">And the drama of ‘Cuttings Job II’ will ensure this book is swiftly remaindered.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">For the moment, it’s the only cogent book on the most important media story since the birth of newspapers and has every chance of becoming a best seller.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">But we are promised Graham Greene. What we get is Agatha Christie. And after 328 pages, we still don’t know whodunit.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><strong>Dial M for Murdoch is published by Penguin with a RRP of £20</strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2012/05/review-dial-m-murdoch-tom-watson-and-martin-hickman">http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2012/05/review-dial-m-murdoch-tom-watson-and-martin-hickman</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div>Neville Thurlbeckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869423580982828835noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4674856329471928909.post-21523882546125454442012-05-04T10:44:00.000+01:002012-05-05T15:39:23.128+01:00Alison Steadman in Here, by Michael Frayn at The Rose Theatre<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HsjomyDo2w0/T6OcINoezEI/AAAAAAAAAbs/N-U271L4g0U/s1600/surrey-comet-logo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="79" mea="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HsjomyDo2w0/T6OcINoezEI/AAAAAAAAAbs/N-U271L4g0U/s320/surrey-comet-logo.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div> <br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">THERE are three performances of powerful dramatic idiosyncrasy which have managed to sear themselves into the memory. One is Alison Steadman in Abigail’s Party. The second is Alison Steadman in Nuts in May. The third is Alison Steadman in Here.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">It was a bold move of the Rose Theatre in Kingston to attempt to stage this rare dud in Michael Frayn’s canon of work.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">It opened at the Donmar in 1993 to disappointing reviews and has been reworked into something more accessible for this rare airing on stage.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Steadman gives a magical tragic-comic performance as Pat as she reflects on the disappointments of life with rueful humour and rejoices that she hasn’t got to endure them all again.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Surrounded by the ghosts of suburbia past, her lower middle class stoicism is a dramatic counterpoint to the young lovers who rent her attic room.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Frayn uses them as one dimensional characters Phil and Cath (played by Alex Beckett and Zawe Ashton) to explore how we construct our lives out of all the millions of possibilities which exist before us.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">It is an interesting philosophical concept. But one which doesn’t make for good drama. At times, the tortured logic of Phil’s circumlocution sets one’s teeth on edge.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">And the plot and characters are sealed so hermetically, they make Pinter seem like a light hearted soap opera.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">We are given no details of their past, their jobs or any part of their lives out of the four walls of the room which acts as a pressure cooker on their failing relationship.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Frayn loves the arguments. And this play is all brain and very little soul.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">We therefore ache for Pat’s appearances with her half mast trousers, clumpy sensible shoes, Croydon drawl and blinking bewilderment.</span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7WnwlzqtMgY/T6OiOGywwOI/AAAAAAAAAcA/Ywc7LxlamvA/s1600/Alsion+Steadman.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" mea="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7WnwlzqtMgY/T6OiOGywwOI/AAAAAAAAAcA/Ywc7LxlamvA/s320/Alsion+Steadman.jpg" width="209" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alison Steadman as Pat</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">On the page, Frayn’s Here is unreadable. And it takes a skillful director to lift it from the page to the stage, pauses, rhythms and all.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Director Lisa Spirling does the best she can with a very talented cast and Alison Steadman saves the day.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I enjoyed if for Steadman and as a rare opportunity to see a theatrical obscurity, which was good enough for me.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><strong>Michael Frayn’s Here is at the Rose Theatre, Kingston, until May 12.</strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><strong>To book, go to </strong></span><a href="http://www.rosetheatrekingston.org/"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: purple;"><strong>www.rosetheatrekingston.org</strong></span></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EF0qYWTyUVM/T6Oie7wg5pI/AAAAAAAAAcI/L4Fv4NWbHbY/s1600/Zawe+Aston+as+Cath+and+Alex+Beckett+as+Phil+(3)-+sm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="282" mea="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EF0qYWTyUVM/T6Oie7wg5pI/AAAAAAAAAcI/L4Fv4NWbHbY/s400/Zawe+Aston+as+Cath+and+Alex+Beckett+as+Phil+(3)-+sm.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alex Beckett as Phil and Zawe Ashton as Cath</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><strong>My review also appears in the Surrey Comet, out today, price 55p from all good newsagents - as it has been since 1854!</strong></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><a href="http://www.surreycomet.co.uk/"><strong>www.surreycomet.co.uk</strong></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.surreycomet.co.uk/rosetheatre/reviews/9687800.ROSE_REVIEW__Here__Neville_Thurlbeck_s_view/"><strong>http://www.surreycomet.co.uk/rosetheatre/reviews/9687800.ROSE_REVIEW__Here__Neville_Thurlbeck_s_view/</strong></a></div>Neville Thurlbeckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869423580982828835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4674856329471928909.post-44423598291054124532012-05-01T23:56:00.000+01:002012-05-01T23:57:00.234+01:00Radio 5 Live Interview today on the CMS Report<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01h0bbf/5_live_Drive_01_05_2012/">http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01h0bbf/5_live_Drive_01_05_2012/</a><br /><br />Drag the curser to 1hr 6minsNeville Thurlbeckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869423580982828835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4674856329471928909.post-200208260175502342012-05-01T12:52:00.001+01:002012-05-11T09:58:59.356+01:00Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee Report. My Statement<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">THE CULTURE, Media and Sport select committee has concluded that News of the World executives deliberately avoided disclosing information to the committee.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">I provided a lengthy statement to the committee last year and gave the committee member Tom Watson MP part of my dossier of evidence to support this was the case.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">I have repeatedly claimed that as early as 2009 and in the years that followed, I provided News of the World executives with evidence which showed I was not involved in commissioning Gordon Taylor’s phone to be hacked, or of personally hacking it myself.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">My evidence showed that two other executives had been responsible for the events leading up to and beyond the “For Neville” email.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The News of the World executives accepted this was the case, which is why I kept my job.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">But they failed to fully alert News International, in particular James Murdoch, to the fact there was hard evidence incriminating other people as it would have exploded the 'one rogue reporter' defence.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">This has had enormous personal consequences for me. I was chief suspect number one. I was arrested. I was unfairly dismissed because News International were unaware of my dossier which proved my innocence. I lost my redundancy payment. All my legal funding was withdrawn.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">I do not believe they took part in a willful cover-up. Under huge pressure to do something I think they panicked and didn't do enough</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">I think they chose a strategy of containment rather than action and exposure which left me as a chief suspect for two years, acting as the magnet for the iron filings of suspicion. It was seen as a better corporate strategy to have one suspect than two convicts.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">I don't think this makes Tom Crone a bad lawyer or Colin Myler a bad editor. They just made a bad decision that day. For me, for the paper and for the company.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Nor do I believe it is fair to judge Rupert Murdoch as being unfit to lead a major international company. If senior executives chose to erect an information log-jam, I’m not sure how MPs thought he could have dealt with the problem. I think they have allowed politics to influence their decision here.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">It is a major personal breakthrough to see that both Rupert Murdoch at the Leveson Inquiry and now the select committee of investigating MPs have both concluded that my absolutely vital dossier was not passed on to News International executives.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"> </div>Neville Thurlbeckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869423580982828835noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4674856329471928909.post-50749392661067605552012-04-28T21:52:00.000+01:002012-04-29T00:54:04.026+01:00Rab Wood - A Farewell<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FHB5lze9xaE/T5xWbI2LhRI/AAAAAAAAAbg/ldufbW55Hsw/s1600/talking2minds+logo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="92" oda="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FHB5lze9xaE/T5xWbI2LhRI/AAAAAAAAAbg/ldufbW55Hsw/s320/talking2minds+logo.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">THE FUNERAL of Rab Wood took place on April 5<sup>th</sup> at Woking Crematorium attended by hundreds of family, friends and colleagues.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Many mourners travelled from various parts of the globe to say a final farewell to this unique man.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Although Rab was just 54 when he died, he had lived a life of many men.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">And the respect and affection he commanded and earned was, in our experience, without parallel.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Rab entered the chapel, his coffin draped with the cross of St Andrew, to the strains of a lone piper playing Flower of Scotland.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">For a man deemed indestructible, it was a poignant moment, especially for his devoted wife Sue, his two teenage sons and his two brothers. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The mourners included many of his colleagues from the security services and the military, including Simon Mann.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Rab had been a good friend of the forces charity Talking2Minds over the past few years.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Our thoughts and prayers are with his family.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">It is impossible to write an obituary for Rab Wood without incurring a D Notice from the MoD.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">And to write a censored version would do him no credit.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">So I will leave you with a story about our beloved friend Rab, which I think sums him up perfectly.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Many years ago – I would have been in my early 20s and Rab a little older - he was instructing me how to use a Browning 9mm pistol.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Guns have never interested me and I was more curious to find out if he could, unarmed, disarm a person with a gun.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Usual Rab nonchalance and non-committal noises ensued.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Foolishly, I persisted.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Eventually he relented.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“OK, here’s the gun. It’s not loaded but I want you to listen very carefully.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“Press the gun into the small of my back, shout, ‘hands up!’ and pull the trigger and I’ll show you.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">At this point I have to confess I was more than a little nervous. If truth be told, I started back-peddling on the whole idea. “No, no….just talk me through it man!” that sort of thing.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Rab was having none of it. I’d nagged him into it, he was going to show me and there was no going back.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I took the Browning, placed it in the small of his back, shouted, ‘hands up!’ and pulled, or at least tried to pull the trigger.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In an instant, I was stunned and face first on the floor with my gun hand behind my back as Rab wrenched it from my grasp.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Seeing me sprawled on the floor, half concussed, he gently helped me back to my feet, gave me a big hug, kissed me on the cheek, threw his head back and roared with laughter.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">After making sure I was OK he took me through the whole procedure – which had lasted barely two seconds - in slow motion.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I had approached him from behind, pressed the Browning into the small of his back, shouted, ‘hands up!’ and attempted to pull the trigger.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">At that point Rab had forced his body onto the muzzle of the pistol, causing the ‘barrel to slide’ mechanism to jam. So when I pulled the trigger, it jammed too.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This is when Rab swung his left arm behind him and landed a very, very strong blow to the left side of my jaw with his elbow.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I was stunned to the point of starting to fall to the floor. Rab spun round, grabbed my pistol hand and pushed me to the floor face down with my pistol hand behind my back before disarming me.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I was confounded. Rab was concerned to make sure he hadn’t broken my jaw, moving it from side to side and asking, “can you feel anything grinding?”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">After declaring me fit, I casually mentioned it had been a very good job indeed that that gun wasn't loaded.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Rab looked at me, grinned that famous slightly jagged grin of his, pointed the gun into the air and pulled the trigger.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">It was.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Rest in peace, our courageous, outrageous, daring, bold, kind, affectionate, loving, loyal chum. We will all miss you terribly.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div> <br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mxD9Lq0SL94/T5xVwMl6wfI/AAAAAAAAAbY/8bthx2plUGs/s1600/Rab+pic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="432" oda="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mxD9Lq0SL94/T5xVwMl6wfI/AAAAAAAAAbY/8bthx2plUGs/s640/Rab+pic.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Happy days. From left: Rab's wonderfully vivacious wife Sue, Rab, me and my daughter "Bee" on holiday in Cyprus, May 1999</td></tr></tbody></table> <br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div>Neville Thurlbeckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869423580982828835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4674856329471928909.post-68072094442622830292012-04-28T14:11:00.001+01:002012-04-28T14:23:27.964+01:00Bloomberg TV InterviewHERE is the link to the Bloomberg TV interview I did on April 26 concerning News International, Rupert Murdoch and the BSkyB bid.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/video/91474378/">http://www.bloomberg.com/video/91474378/</a><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Neville Thurlbeckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869423580982828835noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4674856329471928909.post-30374951115859413012012-04-28T14:00:00.000+01:002012-07-21T23:48:00.476+01:00Rupert Murdoch at Leveson<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Here is my take on Rupert Murdoch at the Leveson Inquiry which appeared on the Exaro News website yesterday at </span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #900000;"><a href="http://www.exaronews.com/">http://www.exaronews.com/</a></span> </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6zwYIJL33QY/T5voq2ZPDkI/AAAAAAAAAbM/WSHc-dDTQ9M/s1600/Rupert+Murdoch+at+Leveson.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="225" oda="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6zwYIJL33QY/T5voq2ZPDkI/AAAAAAAAAbM/WSHc-dDTQ9M/s400/Rupert+Murdoch+at+Leveson.bmp" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Murdoch at the Leveson Inquiry</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">RUPERT Murdoch doesn’t do “subtle” he told us at Wednesday’s hearing of the Leveson Inquiry.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">That’s probably the only untruth I could spot during his marathon sitting.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">He might talk tough. But his methods <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">are</i> subtle.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Gently, layer upon layer, pause by pause, he let us know precisely who was chasing who in the Prime Minister/newspaper proprietor courting ritual.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“I may have been to dinner with him”, “I can’t remember meeting him”, “He may have come to my yacht but I can’t recall. My wife says he did apparently.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">These weren’t the words of a forgetful octogenarian. Nor were they the words of a slick PR machine. You can’t teach that sort of sophisticated approach.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Murdoch is no Maxwell, who had photographs of meetings with every leader forced on the front page of the Daily Mirror.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">And if he was still alive this week, he would have been boasting about them from his Leveson pulpit.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">But with the casual nonchalance of the well-connected media mogul, he reversed the News International ship that was sailing in a completely different direction on Tuesday.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">On that momentous day, News International was firmly positioned as the one who courted the government.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">His son James had done that through his incendiary revelations that News International had been using a backdoor channel to the government to push the BSkyB bid through.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Just 24-hours later, Rupert was telling us: “Not so. I was the powerful media mogul who was being courted by the country’s most powerful men.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Except of course, he didn’t say that at all. But we got the message. And more importantly, we believed it.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">When Rupert Murdoch says, “I’ve never asked a Prime Minister for anything”, you can bet he’s right.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">But what he won’t tell you is, he didn’t need to. They knew already what his goals and ambitions were - his dislike of over-regulation, trade unions and the single currency and all his other hobby-horses from better army equipment for soldiers to personal ambitions for his companies.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">And to get his crucial endorsement come election time, every party leader had to try to meet those demands without compromising their manifesto or their standing in the party. Or at least avoid treading on his ambitions.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">It’s what Robert Jay QC meant by suggesting Murdoch and party leaders would engage in an elaborate “pirouette” together.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I expect this to happen. It’s happened since the days of Beaverbrook and before.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Charities do it, pressure groups do it. And we accept this as part of the lobbying process of interest groups.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">So why, when it comes to corporations with big bank accounts, should this suddenly become wrong?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">It’s only wrong when governments compromise themselves and reward business leaders with favours. That’s when the corruption starts.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">And it is up to governments and its ministers to exercise the brake.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Rupert Murdoch’s approach to politics is identical to his approach to managing his newspapers.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">He doesn’t ring up his editors and micro-manage operations – again, as Maxwell used to do.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">He’s what’s termed a ‘charismatic leader’.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">At the Leveson Inquiry, this was taken to mean a leader who had a kind of film star ‘aura’ about them.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">It in fact means a leader who has such a dominant stamp on his business, his generals are in no doubt about what he wants – even when he is absent. Which of course Rupert was most of the time.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In all of Rupert Murdoch’s publications, when editors were making tough calls on which stories/investigations/campaigns to run, their thoughts always turn to the question: “What would Rupert expect?”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">And the answer was always clear to them – set the agenda alight, get the paper talked about, give your readers what they want. Don’t screw up.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Whether you are a prime minister or an editor, you know what Rupert wants. And if you want power or to keep your job, you make sure he gets it.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Sensing their political influence has vanished over the past nine months, both the Murdochs used the Leveson Inquiry to burn the rest of their political bridges.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Given that Rupert’s main love for his newspapers was the political power they wielded and his son’s disdain for them, I believe this marks the beginning of the end of the Murdoch association with News International. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div>Neville Thurlbeckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869423580982828835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4674856329471928909.post-70588531389463506772012-04-27T17:51:00.002+01:002012-04-28T13:57:31.573+01:00Rupert Murdoch at Leveson for Exaro NewsRUPERT Murdoch does not do “subtle”. He told us so at this week’s hearing of the Leveson inquiry into media ethics. It is probably the only untruth that I could spot during his marathon sitting over the past two days.<br /><br />For the full version of my view of Rupert Murdoch's performance at Leveson and what he was seeking to achieve, go to the Exaro news website where it is the lead article.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.exaronews.com/">http://www.exaronews.com/</a>Neville Thurlbeckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869423580982828835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4674856329471928909.post-4310069901130734992012-04-27T16:40:00.002+01:002012-04-27T16:44:04.094+01:00BBC 5 Live Breakfast Interview with Nicky CambellFOR THOSE of you who follow these things, here is my Radio 5 Live interview with Nicky Campbell this morning.<br /><br />In it, I address Rupert Murdoch's assertion yesterday at the Leveson Inquiry that there had been a "cover-up" at the News of the World over phone hacking.<br /><br />Move the cursor along to 1hr 9mins.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01gk241/5_live_Breakfast_27_04_2012/">http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01gk241/5_live_Breakfast_27_04_2012/</a>Neville Thurlbeckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869423580982828835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4674856329471928909.post-5965502678354347562012-04-27T16:10:00.001+01:002012-04-28T23:26:03.335+01:00Dear Diary - Crazy Days at the Hovel on the Hill<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Dear diary,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Another boring day.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Got up at 4.50am, shower, shave, tea, cereal and into car to BBC at 6am.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Cup of tea at studio then live on BBC Radio 5 Live at 7am. Odd panic attack. Always convinced mid interview I will choke on sip of water of have uncontrollable sneezing fit.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Tell same to seasoned broadcasting type who confesses he has same about breaking wind.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Leave at 7.20am for breakfast at Reform Club. Catch up on all papers. Times carries piece on my CMS Committee letter and grumpy, scowly picture of me snatched outside the hovel last year. Have snooze in library.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Walk for an hour to police station to find if I am going to be charged with the extremely serious offence of intimidating a witness.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Take calls from three newspapers and TV station on the way telling me they have it on best possible authority that I am.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Late mother-in-law’s expression of shock and surprise oddly flashes through mind – “I nearly dropped my cork leg!”. Realise I still don’t know what it means. But my cork leg is most certainly dropped.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Carry on walking. The lovely Sharon Patrick from ITN texts me. “Which police station is it?”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“Vladivostok.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Several more requests.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Arrive, no reporters.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Meet my excellent, wise, sage-like lawyer Henri Brandman. His usual, benign greeting, “Good morning Mr Neville”.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Two affable cops welcome me beaming and with hands outstretched. Nice chaps from that Weeting brigade.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Mr Weeting Junior calls me “Mr Neville” too for some odd reason.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Henri and I smile.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Mr Weeting Senior gets it right for the important bit – “no further action Mr Thurlbeck”.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Great. That only leaves matter of being jailed for hacking Gordon Taylor’s phone. Still, early days yet. It’s only been a year.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style;">(Henri the Sage phones upon reading this, "Please point out this is one of your infantile jokes").</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Mssrs Weeting, The Sage and I, shake hands and depart.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Switch phone back on. Pings like ping-ball machine. Lots of emails and texts from well wishers. Several hundred. Many I don’t know. Very grateful and bit humbled.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Dozens of interview requests. Turn all down on basis it would turn into Monty Python sketch. Issue statement to press spokeswoman Hayley Barlow instead. Works a treat.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Back home. Finish review of Tom Watson’s book for a heavyweight, national publication. Send over. They are pleased. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Reply to as many emails as possible. Realise many are from well-wishers at News Int. Several from other titles. V kind. Thank you.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">More emails. More interview requests.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Collate list of interviewees from Talking2Minds and send to TV company making doc on PTSD victims.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Next – run with dog Sir Ralphie ‘Poocher’ Magrew. Shower, change then to review the brilliant Alison Steadman in press night of Frayn’s ‘Here’ followed by din.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Look out of window. Raining again.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">When, oh when will something happen in my life?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"> </span><strong>My grateful thanks for all your warm wishes today. From friends and strangers. Thank you so much.</strong></span></div><div style="background: white; margin-left: 36pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><strong>I would like to thank my family, friends and colleagues in the industry for their unswerving loyalty, support and continued belief in me.</strong></span></div><div style="background: white; margin-left: 36pt;"><strong><br /></strong></div><div style="background: white; margin-left: 36pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><strong>And my lawyer Henri Brandman for his wise counsel. I am fortunate to retain the services of one of London's finest lawyers.</strong></span></div><div style="background: white; margin-left: 36pt;"><strong><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">He can be contacted on </span><cite><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.henribrandman.co.uk/">http://www.henribrandman.co.uk/</a></span></cite></strong></div><div style="background: white; margin-left: 36pt;"><strong><br /></strong></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /></div>Neville Thurlbeckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869423580982828835noreply@blogger.com2