very Good blogThank you!

Corrupt politicians, disgusting right wing press, self serving capitalist bankers and a morally degenerate drug taking elite supported by a bung taking police. Time for a British Castro, Chavez or similar. Shoot the bastards!!!!

Intruiging? I call it damn convenient.

cover up..... how much longer will we as UK citizens really put up with this..?

Disgusted... but of course, my disgust - nor anyone else's - will make ANY difference to those that think themselves above the law... feel powerless.

Lou: You made some very perspective observations.

Note Prof Holden's comment above. The first dead witness is being examined by the Herts Coroner today. Watch this space!

Intriguing also that her resignation was announced on the day that the BBC journalists were on strike! Coincidence?

Stopping her famous propensity for footinmouthitis what the timing is all about. See the video of her giving evidence and casually revealing that they pay bent coppers, watch her face change as she sees the reaction on the MPs faces upon hearing this, then Coulson all but sit on her head to shut her up.
What is to say that the order to arrest her ( thereby stopping her dropping everybody in it on Tuesday) didn't come from the top of the establishment, down the chain of command.
Lets be honest here, everybody involved has an interest in her not talking. How long till somebody goes for a walk and is found dead under a tree?
I'm not normally a conspiracy theorist but this last week has me wondering.
By the way does any body know where there is a plan outline where you can see all the characters in this how they are all connected, from the bent PI who got off the murder charge who the police tapped and accidentally heard him talking about paying coppers , or the DPP guy who advised the met against action now working for NI, or the fact that guy who payed for Stephensons break is the godfather to one of Vaz's kids? ( or is it the other way around?)
I think we need to stand back and see the big picture. It's got so big it's hard keeping track of who is who.

And now she has been arrested she will be no comment, no comment, no comment ad infinitum when before the Committee.

I would like to know if her agreement to appear before th select committee came before or after her arrangement to attend the police station. A timeline would assuage all conspiracy theories very simply.

Good timing by Rebekah, and well orchestrated. Its pointless her now appearing before the Committee; she said all she had to say in 2003 to a Committee, that she had known that Police had been paid, and they let it rest, or prefered to ignore it.
I quite like Rebekah Brooks; she has good bone structure and flaming wild red hair, and with an honest face like that, who cannot but fail to admire her.
But at the end of the day I have a feeling that she will be exhonerated, she has good bone structure, but people like Coulson and the nfamous Murdoch Clan will get their just deserts. Rebekah just got into bad company thats all, and I'm sure they led her astray.

Gee, do you think FOX News will cover this story? Doubtful, unless it's a self-serving commentary indignantly using the term "witch hunt".

What do the following terms have in common:

Grape Nuts, pencil lead, FOX News

Allegedly Rebekah Brooks has been arrested for her part in allegedy phone hacking and allegedly trying to pervert the course of justice by allegedly trying to bribe allegedly corrupt police officers.

Now who in their government can the British people really trust to carry out a complete investigation of this horrible crime? The Met/Scotland Yard upper brass cannot. The Prime Minister cannot. The MP who is supposed to question these characters cannot be fully trusted either. What a sad situation for the British people who have been abandoned by their government.

Is this a case of Brooks being arrested or is this a case of the Met wanting to have a little meeting with Brooks so they can co-ordinate their stories prior to Brooks undergoing public interrogation before the Select Committee ? We don`t know of course but unless the police can give us a good answer as to why Brooks needed to be arrested before the Select Committee hearing rather than shortly afterwards this will continue to look very dodgy indeed .

Wouldn't it be surprising and alarming if it turns out that some MP's had been aware of payments to the Police and aware that phones were been hacked?
I wonder who will sit on the committee? The questions asked I'm sure will lead to further allegations by the public.

Not a word about the man! Eddie Shaw! Not only did Mr Shaw grab the white heat of new technology and take on the print unions, Eddie also gave Rebekah her start in the business.
Enough of that 'where would we all be if Rupert Murdoch had not entered the world of the British Press?
Where would be all be if Murdoch had not inherited a sizable newspaper estate from Dad?
Where would be all be if Murdoch had not inherited the talented Rebekah from Eddie Shaw?
What if?

@labman57: What's the answer to your riddle?

("What do the following terms have in common:
Grape Nuts, pencil lead, FOX News?")

You could never have sold this idea for a television series: the endlessly interconnected falls of Murdoch, the Met and a Flashman-like Prime Minister. Even as a film, it would only have been commissioned as something along the lines of Churchill: The Hollywood Years. Yet here it is in real life, happening before our very eyes.

Which is more than can be said for the Sun on Sunday. What would have been the point? As surely as John Smith's Premiership would have been assured at any point between Golden Wednesday and his death, so, barring fatality, the Premiership is now assured to pass to the heir of Kinnock, Smith and Brown. As that heir, he has one hell of a grievance against a Murdoch red-top. But it is not the News of the World.

Quoting earlier post of John Lifebooks: "Thanks to Mr. Murdoch, Bertie Ahern became ‘premier’ of Ireland and went on to bankrupt the country.."
Make no mistake Mr Lifebooks, it was the British banks that bankrupted the Irish Republic. You would do well to read http://www.sceala.com/phpBB2/irish-forums-25297.html