I have always known that Rupert Murdoch is a scumbag, so it’s rather pleasing to watch one of his papers being exposed for being the seedy rag it is. Like almost everyone else, I think phone hacking is deplorable. I’ve been watching the coverage of this story on the beeb, but I’m considering flipping over to sky news for a bit, to see how they’re covering it; I might also check out the news of the world too. My bet is they both will have just ignored the story.

I’ve noticed, however, that there isn’t much being made of the links between the paper and our current government. CaMoron’s chief spin-doctor, Andy Coulson, was once the editor of NOTW, and probably commissioned some of this phone hacking himself. Does this not strike anyone else as dodgy? Even without the current scandal, the fact that CaMoron is prepared to employ the former editor of such a piece of filth is surely indicative of the type of guy he is: even more than Blair, he’s obsessed by his image, and will employ pornographers to help him present it. Even if CaMoron didn’t know about the phone hacking – which I frankly doubt – he knew of Coulson’s past, and the type of paper he produced. Everyone is rightly condemning the News of the World for it’s reprehensible actions, but some of the shit must also wash on to CaMoron. For all his nice-guy image, he’s as scummy and puerile as the people he employs.