Now this truly is political correctness gone mad

I thought they just used "filthy left-wing scum" as a catch all...

And in more bad news for Murdochs, you may recall the 'revelation' that NGN were still paying costs in relation to indemnifying the PI Glenn Mulcaire. Horrified and appalled as Murdoch was to 'learn'this, they stopped the payments. Mulcaire however had it in writing, and took umbrage at this. Now he has won his case against News group newspapers that NGN must indemnify him in respect of the costs and damages arising from litigation to which they were jointly sued, on the terms contained in an indemnity letter.



An indemnity against civil or criminal liability resulting from the deliberate commission of a crime would certainly not be enforceable by a criminal, but that did not apply to subsequent agreements in relation to civil proceedings arising out of the criminal conduct. So NGN's indemnity to Mulcaire was not void as contrary to public policy. The court declared that there was a valid contract of indemnity which had not been determined and was still subsisting, so if he is ordered to pay, they pay it.



Kerching.

Massive fun at Leveson at the moment, with ex-[iExpress[/i editor having said the paper left the PCC because it failed to stop the [iExpress[/i itself libelling the McCanns.



And that's before the delectable Dickie Desmond appears.

In its quest to be thorough, is this enquiry turning itself into a showbiz sideshow? Certainly Kelvin McKenzie seemed to be treating the whole thing as a jolly day out and a chance to get his face back in the media again.

It's the best entertainment around at present – although I think it's managing to be enormously revealing too, alongside such related issues as the [iMail[/i trying to have any possible whistleblowers stopped from appearing.



Although I cannot, for the life of me, imagine why that might be worrying them ...



On the entertainment aspect, Ian Hislop is due to appear next week.

The prosecution rests, m'lady.

"allegedly"?

And Associated Press has lost its bid to stop anonymous journalists appearing as witnesses at Leveson.



I think that's what's known as serious daily fail.

They can hack my phone for 40 grand, all they'll get is my missus cackling to her sister for 3 hours a night

The problem with this enquiry is 99.99% of the population don't give a toss about it. In a country going through recession, large unemployment etc they have more important things to worry about. You only needed the stuff about the News of the World to know that new guidelines needed to be drawn up, the rest of it is a waste of taxpayers money. Half of these so called celebrity's are glad of the money and publicity they are getting.