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In 2014 EP election, party groups declared their candidates for Commission Presidents. Juncker was EPP candidate, Martin Schulz was PES candidate and Guy Verhofstadt was ALDE candidate. EPP won the election, so Juncker was nominated by EC and elected by EP.

Parliament rubber stamped the council nomination but where did the public vote for him? You think the public in Northern Europe would have considered the guy electable? You have obviously forgotten that few in the EU wanted Juncker and if you think European politicians consider Junckers "election" legitimate then consider...

On Tuesday evening, EU heads of state and government come together for what could be their last supper together with Cameron. On the following morning, they make clear to Juncker that they will be taking the lead in the exit negotiations with Britain. "But that is the Commission's responsibility," Juncker protests. "Jean-Claude, we have been elected, you haven't been," is the rejoinder from several prime ministers and heads of state.

Not in codecision procedure, which is used in most areas since the Lisbon Treaty.

My reading (and it has been some time) was simply that the commission can overrule parliament and that the council of ministers can overrule the commission.

That is not true. EP can dismiss the commission by two-thirds majority vote of no-confidence. See article 234 of the Lisbon Treaty.

Also note that in the past, EP was able to force resignation of Santer commission even without legal right to for that.

I was going from memory but am prepared to split the difference on this. Rather than a simple majority vote we have an arbitrary 75%, should parliament ever use a power that was not granted with a view to ever being exercised.

Sure, it's possible to apply pressure for a political resignation.... until it is not. Were such tactics always reliable, Juncker would never had landed the job to begin with.

Most of this is a cynical exercise by companies using Brexit as a pretext to engage in mass lay off and withdraw from their commitments despite receiving massive subsidies from the local governments.

how Britain will look after Brexit

Archive link for those who prefer not to support the reprehensible Gawker: https://archive.is/PP7q2

IMHO Gawker is an absolutely vile clickbait machine that portrays itself as a progressive voice while selling outrage.
It undermines what I consider valid, socially responsible goals by trivialising most of them, generating needless conflict by labelling "bad" people and maintaining a ludicrous left-wing good, right-wing evil narrative. It produces propaganda and hatred for cash.

Nick Denton - the CEO of Gawker - has admitted that the company has a severe empathy problem and tried to relaunch it:
http://www.thewrap.com/nick-de...
http://www.salon.com/2015/07/2...

The problem with journalism is not that one needs an audience, the problem with journalism is that factual reporting is no longer the main goal. Truth is secondary to page-views. Nolan suggests that people are the problem because they won't pay for factual material, http://www.private-eye.co.uk/ demonstrates that one can successfully run a publication that focuses on the pursuit and publication of truth (with a healthy injection of humour).

TFA is an attempt to blame absolutely shitty "journalism" on the audience, what in fact is happening is that those of us who do care about quality journalism recognise Gawker for what it is and don't give it ad-revenue or page-impressions.

Seconded, and I would add the long-running British 'Private Eye' for politics heavily laced with satire. Rolling Stone also seems to have its moment of clarity, although I can never decide whether they're genuine.

Private Eye, a fortnightly UK satirical and news magazine first raised this issue
almost two years ago. Here's a link to the journalist's blog article.

I forgot to mention the Private Eye cryptic crossword. I love it.

http://private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=crossword

Set by Cyclops (Brummie in the Graun), it usually contains some absolutely hilarious clues, and is often extremely rude.

I've taken out a subscription to Private Eye http://www.private-eye.co.uk/. I find it funny and insightful and get much more depth of what's going on than I get out of the internet. In additional it feels good to be able to just flick through dead trees and spot something interesting. At £28/year it's not noticably expensive either.

In the UK there is Private Eye which sound very similar; satirical with good journalism, and often the source of nationwide scandals.

Not with NHS whistleblowers in the UK.

http://www.hsj.co.uk/news/legal/nhs-whistleblowers-threaten-legal-challenge/5039169.article

If you're a regular reader of http://www.private-eye.co.uk/ you will know that the above are not isolated incidents.

He's long been reviled as a corrupting influence on journalism. The satirical news magazine Private Eye nicknamed him the "Dirty Digger" back in the 1970s. Sadly, the Eye is somewhat old-school with regard to their online presence - it would be great to be able to go back and search their archive of stories - I'm sure one of News Corp's papers would be mentioned in "Street of Shame" in every edition...

I've worked for both the UK government and the private sector and the failure of large IT projects has one thing in common. Shite external contractors who promise the earth without knowing the first thing about what's actually required. It would be far better to have people who know the area doing the work, but for some reason senior managers all seem to believe their staff are less competent than any of the external companies who all have a well-documented record of uselessness. Private Eye should be required reading for all senior executives and senior civil servants, so that they can't claim ignorance when someone like Capita lets them down.

Well that's some nice attention for David Milliband who is leader of the opposition.

perhaps you missed this. The Mr Millibean who is leader of the opposition is Ed, not David. I know, not much difference...

And meanwhile Dave Hartnett is letting multinational companies get away with tax fraud on an enormous scale. Vodafone, who actually saved the money for the interest on the tax bill they knew they should pay, have paid none of it. They even declared the amount 'saved' as a windfall profit. Apparently HMRC got no less than every penny they could from Vodafone. http://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=in_the_back&issue=1289

They're just the biggest one. There are several cases where Hartnett, who doesn't seem to know a lot about tax, has made agreements with companies to settle tax bills against the guidance, or without the knowledge, of the actual tax experts who work for him. £0.95 Billion from Vodafone was sitting there to be taken - because they'd actually been reasonably honest in a sense - and somehow that got ignored. But it's OK, we'll make up the difference by pestering people on ebay over the amount of money they made on some junk they bought from ebay.

Anyone want to wager that the tax recovered probably doesn't cover the cost of landfill and environmental disposal for most of the crap that will get binned rather than sold on ebay?

...at least as far as the JB7's adverts in Private Eye http://www.private-eye.co.uk/ are concerned. Brennan often take out one or two page spreads, along with at least two other services that offer to rip your CD's/tapes/vinyl/anything to MP3/FLAC/Vorbis/AAC for you.

As other posters have pointed out, format shifting is illegal in the UK, meaning approx 95% of our population have broken the law at some point in their lives - something that has no doubt cost the UK 279% of the GDP every year - but it's never really been brought up by the authorities for the simple reason that such a landmark case as questioning the lawlessness of format shifting is almost certain to have major repercussions in the law, namely the introduction of fair use provisions similar to the US. Almost everyone in the UK already *thinks* format shifting is fine and dandy (hey, iTunes makes it so easy!), and any major media attention brought to it will do nothing but weaken the case of the incumbent record labels.

Sadly, I doubt the Brennan company has the money or inclination to pursue such a case. Writing's on the wall though, I just expect it to be bundled along with "...but only if we can get 'copyright = life of every living descendant plus 200 years!". On the plus side, if Cliff Richard is busy posturing about how his songs from the 50's coming out of copyright will mean the end of all humanity, he won't have time to write any news ones (which, ironically, would actually result in the end of all humanity).

I'd have just gone with: if daily mail, no. This is the paper that is (unknown to them, apparently) the British cousin of The Onion - despite Private Eye's best efforts.

MPs salary, pension and expenses are exempt from tax, unlike standard practice in the private sector. Everyone's first home is free from capital gains tax, MPs just allowed themselves to claim a home was their secondary residence for expenses purposes and then claim it was a primary residence for tax purposes, occasionally at the same time.

Exempting themselves from the tax system is a good sign of tyranny, not to mention hypocrisy.

We have some.

Of course they're not quite Michael Moore in that they're more concerned with exposing wrongdoing than endless self-promotion.

Many people have been ousted this year thanks to Guido and the Torygraph, on both sides of the House. The Private Eye and Ian Hislop in particular in his spot on Have I Got News For You are good at keeping the great and *cough* good *cough* uncomfortable. And the mainstream press aren't too bad either, with the Grauniad and Torygraph keeping Governments of right and left respectively on their toes most of the time, with the Independent taking the occasional pot-shot at anyone. The Times is a Murdochian waste of space though.

If it were on sale in the UK, I would definitely buy it - I used to read it when in the US - we do have "Private Eye", but Mad magazine had a far wider area of focus.

Whatever happened to Mad TV?

Top hit on google.co.uk. I don't know whether the guys across the Pond have anything similar. In any case;
http://www.private-eye.co.uk/

the guardian newspaper has a long and noble tradition of publishing typos

as such it is refered to by the private eye rather amusingly as "the Grauniad".

In case you are unfamilar with the eye, it is a satirical magazine, at one time owned by Peter Cook, that is best known in the UK for being sued for libel when printing things that later turn out to be completely true about certain politicians

Well, if you're in the UK there's always Private Eye...
For those of you who aren't British: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Eye

It's the only printed news organ that I buy; Indeed at ~£25 a year I have a subscription.

where if you lose but spin it right, you win

The cover of this week's Private Eye sums it up.

Slashdot readers interested in the news that the NYT is "free" might be interested in other free as in beer newspapers. Who could possibly resist the temptation to visit the best newspaper in the English language - The Sun. http://www.thesun.co.uk/
You can check out if it is going to be a Zoe McConnell day, which legend has it, augurs good luck.
The Miami Herald http://www.miamiherald.com/ is free too and available in a Spanish edition. Speigel (the English version) http://www.spiegel.de/international/ is free too, and the Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/ and the Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ are also free. Oh and the Independent http://www.independent.co.uk/ which could once claim to be the finest newspaper in the English language is free also. Robert Fisk appears in that one, I believe he finds some sympathy with some slash dotters. Private Eye http://www.private-eye.co.uk/ remains annoyingly non-free for cheapskates like myself and neither is Viz http://www.viz.co.uk/- which used to be funny once. Top Tip number eleven is quite funny. A very brief trawl of the internet should probably result in an appropriate newspaper for every possible shade of opinion.

...is the english Private Eye

It sounds like a committee sat down with a list of high-minded bullet points about what they want to communicate and didn't leave until they had something that fit them.

Well, the 'high-minded' audience may be a new nut for the industry to crack...

But I am about to submit their explanation to Private Eye's Pseuds Corner.

From 'Private Eye' 2005/11/11 - http://www.private-eye.co.uk/

"Number Crunching"
24 Hours - Period terriorism suspects in Australia (al_Qaeda death toll: 88) can be detained before criminal charges must be levelled.

5 Days - Period terriorism suspects in Spain (al_Qaeda death toll: 191) can be detained before criminal charges must be levelled.

7 Days - Period terriorism suspects in USA (al_Qaeda death toll: 3,000) can be detained before criminal charges must be levelled.

90 Days - Period terriorism suspects in UK (al_Qaeda death toll: 52) should be allowed to be detained before criminal charges must be levelled.

including one that shows a Seattle man shortly before he died July 2, said Enumclaw police Cmdr. Eric Sortland.

"Basically, his colon was ruptured, along with his lower organs," Police Commander Eric Sortland told reporters in Enumclaw, Washington state, "and he bled to death after suffering massive trauma from extensive internal injuries. When we first arrived at the ranch, the other men there said they had no idea how it had happened, but then we found a cache of hundreds of hours of videotaped man-on-beast sex sessions, hidden in a barn, and realised we were dealing with a bestiality ring. These people were very diligent in filming their activities, and eventually we found what we were looking for: actual footage of the man being thoroughly sodomised to death by a stallion.
 

This appears to be actually official policy in News Corp - many of its organs are used to cross-promote the others. This is most noticeable when it's grating, such as Sky News showing up in 20C Fox movies, but they can also be fairly subtle - such as this example.

The British satirical magazine Private Eye has a fairly regular section devoted exposing News Corp. cross-media plugs.

I think Rev. Tony Blair agrees with you.

Apple the New Microsoft? Another one for the neophiliacs

Well there was a documentary on radio 4 as has been mentioned.
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=137086&cid =11454994
Also in the current issue of Private Eye
And surely it was mentioned on your lug mailing list?
If it was in the Fortean Times then it would cover all my sources of information.
I don't see how it could get wider coverage ;).

The excellent satire / investigative journalism magazine, Private Eye, has been digging up stuff related to EDS and government contracts for many years now - before the Blair government IIRC. Google doesn't find anything on their website, though, last time I looked it just had a few cartoons up rather than any article archives, which is a shame... this is the only reference I've turned up. I recommend the paper version of Private Eye, I've been reading it since 1983 and it's never less than amusing, sometimes 'piss yourself in public' funny, and the investigative journalism has turned up a lot of stories before anyone else was looking at them.

Whenever anyone asks me for a reason for something, I now always say 'because of the risk of Terrorism'.

Why do you not want to eat at KFC? Because of the risk of Terrorism.

Why did you not clean the house? Because of the risk of Terrorism.

The more we do this, the more people will be used to associating 'the risk of terrorism' with a stupid excuse, and the sooner it'll stop seeming like a sensible reason for things.

It's like saying 'post 9/11 changes' are the reason caravan holidays in Wales are more popular now... Sadly that's a genuine reason that's been given. See Private Eye's WarBalls section from issue 1115

Mark

Whenever anyone asks me for a reason for something, I now always say 'because of the risk of Terrorism'.

Why do you not want to eat at KFC? Because of the risk of Terrorism.

Why did you not clean the house? Because of the risk of Terrorism.

The more we do this, the more people will be used to associating 'the risk of terrorism' with a stupid excuse, and the sooner it'll stop seeming like a sensible reason for things.

It's like saying 'post 9/11 changes' are the reason caravan holidays in Wales are more popular now... Sadly that's a genuine reason that's been given. See Private Eye's WarBalls section from issue 1115

Mark

You mean a bloated, but addmittedly powerful chip is going to be call a Prescott?

Quick - someone ring Private Eye!

(for those of you who don't keep up with British politics, John Prescott is His Royal Tonyness' #2).

Private Eye, a somewhat scurrilous satire / politics / gossip magazine in the UK.

Time, because it's just damn brilliant. Private Eye because it's the best satire going. Linux User And Developer because they have full distros on their coverdiscs-last one I got was full SuSE 9.0 :)

Fortean Times, Private Eye, Macworld, Blender and Revolver.

I used to read Counterpunch, but got tired of Cockburn.

I'm not sure how things work across the pond (in the USA), but in little old Wales, don't people have to:

a) register a trademark/claim copyright;
and
b) actively protect their claimed Intellectual Property

in order to maintain their rights?

Private Eye had an article recently pointing out 7,000 UK government security ID cards have gone missing from Westminster and other government buildings in the last year alone.

Playboy for Thorne and Private Eye for Hawking, says here.

Here's an example:
The tragedy of 11 September has paradoxically led to a boom in the caravan industry, but has this benefited the consumer? -- Caravan Club Magazine.

The English magazine Private Eye has a section called Warballs which pokes fun at the medias desire to relate anything and everything to Sept 11. Just another instance of lazy journalism.

The English magazine Private Eye has a section called Warballs which pokes fun at the medias desire to relate anything and everything to Sept 11. Just another instance of lazy journalism.

My mistake, sorry.

By way of apology here is a link to a mildly amusing Picture of President Bush.

Consolation for loss of freedom: this link to audio clip of "My One-Eyed Trouser Snake" sung by raunchy Aussie Barry Humphries (I don't know what Dame Edna does with that trouser snake now).

The link is to a page of sound clips from Private Eye. You have to scroll down to find the trouser snake.

Private Eye magazine:

oChurch shock! Pope catholic!
o"Yes I shat in woods" says Bear

Ultimately to become The Vicar of Sta Albion no less...