Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Steve Hynd, August 16, 2012

After four years on the Typepad site, eight years total blogging, Newshoggers is closing it's doors today. We've been coasting the last year or so, with many of us moving on to bigger projects (Hey, Eric!) or simply running out of blogging enthusiasm, and it's time to give the old flying pig a rest.

We've done okay over those eight years, although never being quite PC enough to gain wider acceptance from the partisan "party right or wrong" crowds. We like to think we moved political conversations a little, on the ever-present wish to rush to war with Iran, on the need for a real Left that isn't licking corporatist Dem boots every cycle, on America's foreign misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We like to think we made a small difference while writing under that flying pig banner. We did pretty good for a bunch with no ties to big-party apparatuses or think tanks.

Those eight years of blogging will still exist. Because we're ending this typepad account, we've been archiving the typepad blog here. And the original blogger archive is still here. There will still be new content from the old 'hoggers crew too. Ron writes for The Moderate Voice, I post at The Agonist and Eric Martin's lucid foreign policy thoughts can be read at Democracy Arsenal.

I'd like to thank all our regular commenters, readers and the other bloggers who regularly linked to our posts over the years to agree or disagree. You all made writing for 'hoggers an amazingly fun and stimulating experience.

Thank you very much.

Note: This is an archive copy of Newshoggers. Most of the pictures are gone but the words are all here. There may be some occasional new content, John may do some posts and Ron will cross post some of his contributions to The Moderate Voice so check back.


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Sunday, May 18, 2008

Tabloid Spies

By Cernig



It's true, Britain does better sex scandals than America - this one has it all; prostitutes, bondage, Nazis, fast cars and now...spies.

A bizarre sex scandal involving a top motor sports official and the prostitute wife of a British spy has raised urgent questions about the screening procedures employed by the MI5 security service.



The Sunday Times and Sunday Telegraph reported that an MI5 officer had been forced to resign after it emerged that his wife was one of five prostitutes who took part in an orgy with Max Mosley, president of Formula One's governing body, the FIA.



...Mosley has been fighting to keep his job after another paper, the News of the World, reported in March he had taken part in what it called a Nazi-style sado-masochistic orgy...The affair raises many questions, not least how MI5 could have failed to know that the wife of one of its own operatives was working as a prostitute.

I'm going to follow the cliched explanation, and blame the massively expensive and conservative private schools the British elite send their kids to.



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  1. MarkMay 18, 2008 at 6:08 AM

    "The affair raises many questions, not least how MI5 could have failed to know that the wife of one of its own operatives was working as a prostitute."
    Poppycock. MI5 knew damn well that the woman was a prostitute. In fact, would anyone with even the least knowledge of espionage be surprised if the woman's career was the very reason they hired her husband? Hasn't it been well-established over the millenia that prostitutes make unbelievably good spies? If keeping prostitutes away from being in the espionage industry is now official MI5 policy, then all of us in the West ought to feel a little less safe this afternoon.

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