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13. This week's Private Eye has Pearson in its Hackwatch column for her Boris cheerleading

Wed Jun 26, 2019, 04:59 PM

Jun 2019

ending with these tweets about the neighbours. She claimed on Twitter "if giving the recording to The Guardian was politically motivated then that's a crime. It's harassment." Private Eye quotes blogger The Secret Barrister in reply "no ...

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Fun fact: What *might* constitute a criminal offence of harassment, however, is an online campaign by a prominent newspaper columnist aiming to expose and incite hostility towards a private couple who called the police to report a potential incident of domestic violence."

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Boris Johnson: police called to loud altercation at potential PM's home [View all] Denzil_DC Jun 2019 OP

Quality bloke..... OnDoutside Jun 2019 #1

floppy-haired (insert word I cannot say on a US board) Celerity Jun 2019 #2

That is freaky! Soph0571 Jun 2019 #3

...but a word the British use often! I concur! CurtEastPoint Jun 2019 #4

Trouble is.... T_i_B Jun 2019 #6

Is Larry the Cat going to be... BooScout Jun 2019 #5

The reaction of right wingers to this? Blame the neighbours for reporting the incident T_i_B Jun 2019 #7

Allison Pearson used to be an OK TV critic muriel_volestrangler Jun 2019 #8

Looks like the Tory press are going after the neighbours for reporting this T_i_B Jun 2019 #9

And the neighbour knocked on their door first, but got no reply muriel_volestrangler Jun 2019 #10

The Mail on Sunday front-paged an architectural plan of the neighbours' flat in its savage hitjob! Denzil_DC Jun 2019 #11

Fail on Sunday reader's shouldn't need a floor plan. T_i_B Jun 2019 #12

This week's Private Eye has Pearson in its Hackwatch column for her Boris cheerleading muriel_volestrangler Jun 2019 #13