Over the last couple of weeks, it’s been incredible to see the change of heart among members of the British establishment. People who some five weeks ago were attending Rupert Murdoch’s garden parties - including the Prime Minister, David Cameron, and the Labour leader of the opposition Ed Milliband - have been lining up to have a pop at News International. Not that Murdoch and his company don’t deserve it - even before the latest revelations NI newspapers, the Sun and News of the World in particular, had been involved in some pretty disgusting acts, and the revelation that NOTW journalists had hacked the mobile phones of murdered children and dead servicemen and women takes this absolutely beyond the pale.
But what’s so odd about the whole affair is that, for the most part, people high up in politics new what these companies were like. I’m not saying that they knew about the hacking of phones of course - I’m absolutely convinced that they didn’t know. But they were responsible for their own actions in courting Murdoch, in kowtowing to the right-wing, pro-business agenda it was in News International’s corporate interests to pursue. And now we watch our political leaders lining up like personal injury lawyers after an accident at work, rushing to be the first to blame those responsible for you slipping on a recently cleaned floor. The fact is, we could all see the signs. We all read - at first or second hand - stories gained by phone hacking. And to blame it all on one man is ludicrous. Let’s grow up a bit, shall we?

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