Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I don't think that, apart from the original two people banged up, anyone has actually been charged with anything in the Murdoch-only phone hacking scandal. There seems to have been plenty of arrests, with the police having a strange predilection for early morning swoops, which I find bizarre. Though I'm sure the drama appeals to officers pretending to be competent, even when they don't seem able to keep their mouths shut at times.
And what on earth did we learn from Charlotte Church's phone being hacked? We certainly know the value of celebrity when she had to bring a wheelbarrow to take away the 'compensation' for the heinous crime. Is it the case that only reporters working for Murdoch knew how to hack phone voicemails? Or were other organisations so morally correct and well run, that they never stooped to such lows?
If public servants were being corrupted, which has been the latest we have been hearing, then where are the arrests of the corrupted officials? I haven't heard of any. Leveson we are told was not supposed to ask questions about individuals in detail until prosecutions had taken place, but he has and people of the calibre and with the understanding of legal niceties such as Sue Akers, have been happy to blab at length.
But on it will go, this circle of scandal, where the deceit of newspapers meets the deceit of the Establishment.
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