Murdoch Had 'Private' Dinner With PM Cameron

[Philtaz]

Things hotting up a little for DC? Looks like he may be fielding questions a bit more difficult to answer than "Was that horse any good" and "How much is a pint of milk"?!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17829360

[sandyRoe]

When Blair was PM didn't he fly halfway around the world to kowtow at Murdoch's feet?

[Sqad]

Hasn't ALL P.M's had dinner with Murdoch (well perhaps not Gladstone)?

[sandyRoe]

Gladston & Murdoch did dine together in the Café Royal around 1890, I believe.

[Philtaz]

When DC said "We're all in this together" he was of course refering to politicians and the media, certainly not the elite, political parties and us hoi polloi.

[sandyRoe]

Of course Murdoch was only starting out on his career then and had just made his first million.

[Sqad]

sandy....that would make Murdoch well over 120 years old today.

[sandyRoe]

Treu. He looks a lot older, in my opinion.

[sandyRoe]

True, even. ^

[jno]

but he doesn't look a day over 110, Sqad.

http://blogs.telegrap...tMurdoch_1462152c.jpg

[doctordb]

cryogenics?

[Sqad]

sandy.....with his wife.....I can quite understand that....she is a "cracker."

[sandyRoe]

She's aging well. She looks young enough to be his son's wife.

[doctordb]

out to rule the world, hot wife, scary son, pet cat. seems like another job for 007.

[mushroom25]

murdoch appears to be invoking the "shaggy defence" - flat denial in the face of incontrovertible evidence.
#it wasn't me....#

[sandyRoe]

He could reasonably evoke the politicians defence: 'I have no memory of that'.

[Gromit]

Murdoch's father made the family's first millions in the newspaper business. Rupe just took over and took it to new heights, which is more than can be said James.

There was a Bond villian that was supposedly bsed on Murdoch. Was it the Jonathan Price one?

[sandyRoe]

Clogs to clogs in three generations.