by Steven Heffer In July 2011 Rebekah Brooks announced to staff, on the closure of The News of The World “In a year you will understand why we made this decision”. This…

by Joan Smith Sue Akers speaks with the flat, unemphatic delivery of someone whose job doesn’t usually involve addressing a public inquiry. On Monday morning, I was sitting in the area of…

by Brian Cathcart What does it take to get a corporate scandal on to the front pages of the mass-circulation papers? Business, after all, is abstract and dull, and you don’t sell…

by Brian Cathcart From a day of breathtaking revelations, here is one: on or just before 16 September 2006 Rebekah Brooks received a phone call from a police officer who briefed her…

by Brian Cathcart Some history has been rewritten for us this morning at the Leveson inquiry. For years we have been given to understand that the material seized from Glenn Mulcaire in…

by Brian Cathcart It takes quite a lot these days to make the conduct of News International in the phone hacking affair look any worse, but a new legal document published by…

by Brian Cathcart (Picture: Paul Clarke | Creative Commons) Like a man being swept down a river, they reach for every branch, however flimsy, and every rock, however small or slippery. In…

by Brian Cathcart The Mirror and the Telegraph are reporting that lawyers acting for one of the killers of James Bulger are planning to sue News International because their client’s phone was…

by Brian Cathcart With one mighty leap, it seems, Rupert was out. One day his London journalists were reported to be in open revolt against him and the next he had apparently…