FDR did not fear fear itself, nor Churchill the Third Reich. The Prime Minister should not fear facing down Rupert Murdoch, whose empire is, whisper it quietly, on the way out.
For Carl Bernstein, one of the two reporters who brought the world the original "gate", there are important parallels between the fall of Richard Nixon and the fall of the House of Murdoch. The closing of ranks, the Murdoch "family" (which included not only the Murdochs themselves, but Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson, and arguably the whole of the Chipping Norton "set"), and frightened politicians kept it all quiet. But now the code of Omerta is broken, and people are starting to talk...
Those who look in on the website of the so-called Taxpayers' Alliance (TPA), the grassroots equivalent of the Peoples' Front of Judaea, may have noticed that the output of knocking copy aimed at Government - any Government - has fallen recently, although there are still regular attempts to pretend knowledge of jobs merely from job titles, and lectures on economics.
