Alex Massie and Felix Salmon discuss how the former editor of the News of the World could not have been involved in phone-hacking. Private Eye, in a wonderfully gloating new issue, reprint another extract from the Palin-style memoir written by the man they call Piers Moron:
I just got back to the office to learn that Kate Winslet, having indicated she would come to our Pride of Britain awards toorrow, is now saying she can't. Someone had got hold of her mobile number – I never like to ask how – so I rang her … "Hello" she said, sounding a bit taken aback. "How did you get my number? I've only just changed it. You've got to tell me, please. I am so worried now."
The more you find out, the clearer it is that much of Fleet Street tabloids were tapping everyone's phones in Morgan's era. If he had no idea of what was going on, he is even dumber than he appears on TV.
The Dish 