Murdochs face 50 more hacking claims. The queue of people suing Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World for hacking into their voicemails and putting them under surveillance is getting longer, despite 16 cases being settled overnight in London’s High Court. Hugh Tomlinson QC told Justice Vos there are now another 50 plaintiffs ready to march […]
Articles by Leigh Josey 
Power Shots: Power Shots: can Can-Do do it? … Oz Day gongs … Fairfax the poet …
What can Can-Do Campbell do? Queensland’s pint-sized superhero, Can-Do Campbell Newman, has eight weeks to prove he really can do it. The former Brisbane Lord Mayor, who quit last April to lead Queensland’s Liberal-National Party into the election, now faces a state poll on March 24 that will determine whether the LNP gets in and whether […]
Power Shots: Power Shots: Wilkie’s bluff … Behrendt and Lavarch … Mark McGowan who? …
Wilkie’s pokie saga shows money trumps passion. Who is Andrew Wilkie trying to bluff? Does he think he can really force the Gillard government into passing his pokie reforms, or is he just trying to save face? Whatever he’s doing, the pokie saga has become a fascinating study of power. The anti-pokie crusader demanded yesterday that the […]
Time Person of the Year is … too many to mention
This year was a year of protest — from Wall Street to the Arab Spring — and, as such, Time magazine has chosen to not honour any sole identifiable individual. If there is one thing that Time loves more than the anti-hero it’s the collective and/or inanimate.
Leveson latest: an actor, a comedian and a supermodel PA walk into an inquiry …
The Leveson Inquiry into the British media has seen a minefield of accusations emerge over the past 48 hours as the British public has heard for the first time from victims at the centre of the News of the World phone hacking scandal
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours
Rudder steps up as Foxtel 2IC. After Patrick Delaney departed Foxtel to become CEO of Premier Media Group, parent of Fox Sports, the 2IC role at the pay TV giant was left vacant. We hear that will soon be filled by Jim Rudder, the BSkyB and Nine Network executive who was named Foxtel’s content head […]
Good news in US and Euro continue to push markets up
The market is up 88. The SFE Futures were up 45 this morning. The Dow Jones closed up 267 overnight. The S&P 500 was up 1.9% and ended the week up 1.1% for its third straight week of gains. European markets were also higher for a third straight week. EU officials are moving towards agreement […]
Video The National Press Club Audience Highlights Reel: #1 — Alan Jones
Crikey presents: “A Penny For Your Thoughts”. A highlight reel of the audience’s reaction to Alan Jones’ National Press Club address from October 19.
The SMH’s reheats dish two weeks in a row
Last week’s Media Briefs covered how The Sydney Morning Herald’s Good Living lift-out rehashed a Neil Perry recipe. The story now has a second helping.
Power Shots: private school fail … ex-DJs boss hits back … Gillard among friends …
Sonray shows private school circles don’t always win. Melbourne Grammar School has produced some of the country’s most influential people, including premiers and prime ministers, but as the sordid tale of the Sonray Capital Markets collapse shows, being involved in such circles does not always end well. Yesterday, Sonray’s sole director, Russell Johnson, appeared in the Melbourne […]
Front page wrap: the carbon tax
The front pages of the nation’s newspaper are as good a barometer as any to test the waters of the nation’s conscious.
Front page wrap: Osama’s dead, read all about it
The demise of Osama Bin Laden yesterday is a universal “front page news” story. Regardless of origin or language, one word dominates: “dead”.
The seedy year of the sports star, the smartphone and social media
Once there was a time when a sports star, from any code, could undertake any type of unseemly act, be it with human or animal, and be safe in the knowledge that the chance of it becoming public was remote.
All that glitters is not necessarily gold as US athlete sells iconic medal
Legendary American athlete and symbol of the American civil rights movement Tommie Smith is selling his gold medal, made famous by the iconic Black Power salute photo. But there’s an Australian angle to this story we should never forget, writes Leigh Josey.
Cost Benefit delusions of the NBN
If you actually know how economic cost benefit analysis works, you understand that it is completely incapable of producing even a marginally meaningful result on a project like the NBN.
Pakistan match-fixing scandal: what now?
The allegations of a match-fixing scandal that has embroiled Pakistan may not come as a surprise … but the fact that it was English an tabloid that exposed it may have surprised a few.
Crikey election omen betting: time for some real action to recoup my losses
Gambling is for idiots. Gambling on horses and dogs on the basis of the relevence of their names to this federal election campaign is for people who wear aluminium foil on their heads and enjoy the musical work of William Shatner. I am, apparently, one of those people.
The front pages: Ibrahim, Cousins, fake Ibrahim and Steamboat Tony
How some of the nation’s newspapers are leading this morning.
World Cup: The inside scoop on Paul the clairvoyant calamari
How is it that a humble cephalopod can somehow predict, with terrifying accuracy, the outcome of games played on another continent? A Crikey tipster set us on the scent of a scandal…
Vintage First Dog: Avril Lavigne’s Sk8r Boi
Today’s vintage First Dog on the Moon rewinds the clock to August 18, 2009.
Can’t bat, can’t bowl: Howard ICC failure as ‘gang of six’ blocks post
Former Prime Minister John Howard, a well-known cricket tragic, appears to have been run out without facing a ball after his nomination to be International Cricket Council Vice President was blocked.
PHOTO GALLERY: how Julia Gillard said no to the Labor leadership
From being the full forward for the Western Bulldogs to starring in a Spielberg film, Julia Gillard has had some clever quips for rebuffing claims that she was after the ALP leadership. Photoshop genius Leigh Josey made those dreams a reality.
World Championship Chess: Topalov’s embarrassing Bulgarian standoff
Veselin Topalov’s insistence that he would play the entire World Championship match without offering or accepting any draws, may have cost him the world title, writes Grandmaster Ian Rogers.
