What a week, News International seems to be getting into more trouble by the day and the other papers can’t get enough of the action. A friend in Delhi who writes for a broadsheet is enjoying the scandalous spectacle and he writes the gossip column!
The police’s involvement with News International is sinister given that even senior figures in the Met and Scotland Yard seemed to show poor judgement. Seemingly everyone has their price. I remember debating corruption with friends during my university days. Most of them were from countries (e.g. Greece) where corruption was accepted as routine and they openly embraced and accepted it. A British friend was exasperated by their attitude and was relieved and proud that Britain didn’t accept co rruption- quite naive I think.
Although the average citizen doesn’t experience corruption it does exist only we are better at hiding it under our pretentions of superiority. As the number of inquiries, committees and resignations add up will people remember who is investigating who under which inquiry? Is it normal that the former Met Chief should want to employ a PR person who may have influential connections to the PM and what would he want to influence?
I can’t wait to get stuck into my next issue of Private Eye perhaps it will be a bumper edition.
Bubbly
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