The Guardian: Minister’s media minder admits error
Paddy Feeny, head of news in Ms Jowell’s department, alerted her to allegations in the London Evening Standard involving Mr Mills, who faces charges in the Italian courts over work he did for Silvio Berlusconi before the tycoon became prime minister.
Phoned by his wife, Mr Mills is said to have drafted a statement correcting inaccuracies, which Mr Feeny offered to email to the newspaper. By doing so via his departmental email address, he almost certainly transgressed the code.
Posted on May 31st, 2005 at 9:19 am
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A former Berlusconi associate used government facilities for personal purposes? Surely not!
The Mills story is either very, very interesting or utterly trivial and of no importance at all, depending which way the courts eventually decide - the memory hole is ready and waiting. Compare the Economist’s July 2003 dossier on Berlusconi with David Lane’s book-length version, Berlusconi’s Shadow.
References to Mills in the Economist: 21 (including lines such as “Mr Mills denies any wrongdoing” and “these statements were untrue. Mr Mills attributes this to ‘a failure of memory’”).
References to Mills in Berlusconi’s Shadow: 1 (”Mills, the surname of a British solicitor who was a partner of the London arm of the Milanese firm”). Doesn’t mention any memory lapses or hypothetically dodgy deals; doesn’t mention Jowell; doesn’t even give his first name.
You surely don’t expect Blair’s creatures to have a greater sense of, er, propriety, than the Loathsome Wee Twat himself?