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Nobody messes with Joe

2. Sam, 17, from Hackney is no longer in a gang but in his early teens he spent three years in one. He found it difficult to explain to us why he first got involved: “You get a little party happening. You might just hang out and…I don’t really know…” But what Sam does know, is that being in a gang made him feel as though he was a part of something in which he belonged. He liked the closeness and the solidarity: “Gangs are like friends, deep friends, you know what I mean? They’re like proper friends. When I was in a gang, I was with all my brethren.” As strange as it may sound, for Sam it was also about safety because as he said: “When you’re in a gang, no-one messes with you.” - Through the eyes of children, The Magistrate, November, 2003.

3. The next double-page spread contains a timeline of acquisitions from when Murdoch inherited and rescued the Adelaide News in 1954 through to yesterday’s formal acquisition of Dow Jones. Each entry contains skeptical quotes predicting Murdoch’s demise, including: “He’ll be broke within the year” - 1954, on his rescue of the Adelaide News. “No one reads that” - 1969, on his acquisition of the Sun. “No one messes with the BBC” - 1989, on the launch of Sky. The timeline ends with 2007 and the quote: “The Wall Street Journal will never be the same.” It continues: “Exactly. And that’s a promise.” - Murdoch trumpets WSJ purchase with global ad campaign, The Guardian, December 14, 2007.