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NO CLOONEY

December 13, 2021

Murdoch stopped George Clooney film based on phone hacking book, claims author. GEORGE CLOONEY was thwarted from making a film about the phone hacking scandal by Rupert Murdoch. The fascinating claim was recently made by former Guardian journalist, Nick Davies, at an event marking the tenth anniversary of the scandal he helped expose, which led to the closure of The News of The World and the Leveson public inquiry.   According to Davies, when Clooney optioned his book Hack Attack: How The Truth Caught Up With Rupert Murdoch he warned the movie star that the media mogul’s malign reach in the US would cause him “trouble”. 

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TOO MANY COOKS

June 24, 2021

A Lost Chance To Solve The Daniel Morgan Murder Police and prosecutors investigating the axe murder of private investigator Daniel Morgan forfeited a chance to solve the notorious case, when one of the five prime suspects offered to confess and implicate others. The Upsetter can reveal that Jimmy Cook was willing to enter into a plea deal and admit to being the getaway driver and eyewitness to the gruesome murder that took place in a south London pub car park in 1987. While in prison awaiting trial for the murder, Cook offered to plead to the serious but lesser offence of

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MAXCOIN

June 5, 2021

Mosley Puffed By ‘Independent’ Film He Funded Max Mosley will be lionised in an “independent” documentary made by a film company in which he and his wife are major shareholders, The Upsetter can reveal. Mosley: It’s Complicated, which is billed as “unauthorised”, is expected in cinemas next month. Actor Hugh Grant is among the fawning usual suspects to be found praising Mosley for taking on the press after a tabloid sting in 2008 exposed his predilection for sadomasochistic orgies with prostitutes. The documentary makers were granted special access to the scandal-ridden Formula One motor racing boss turned privacy campaigner, who died of cancer

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PANEL BEATING

May 25, 2021

The Inside Story of Priti Patel’s Battle for the Daniel Morgan Report The family of Daniel Morgan are right to be “suspicious” of Priti Patel’s last minute block on publication of the long-awaited report into the private investigator’s notorious unsolved murder in 1987. Ludicrous reliance on the old chestnut of “national security” to justify stopping yesterday’s planned publication, after an 8-year inquiry costing £15m, has proved a spectacular own goal. It has left the Home Secretary looking even more shifty and dismissive of a family failed for 34 years by no less than five flawed police investigations and the entire criminal

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YOUNG IN OLD FAKE NEWS SCANDAL

April 16, 2021

Spectator editor caught offside in false claims about Chelsea FC. THEY say start as you mean to go on. And so it was with Toby Young, associate editor of The Spectator magazine and super-spreader of fake news about coronavirus. The 57-year-old lockdown sceptic began his national media career with a major piece of fake journalism about Chelsea Football Club, The Upsetter can reveal. In June 1985, Young, then a 21-year-old Oxford undergraduate, penned an article about a new ultra-violent group of Chelsea thugs called the Anti-Personnel Firm (APF) who were terrorising terraces and the British public. The article appeared on the front

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