FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS

Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of News International, and five others  from the same organisation, will be charged with perverting the course of justice, according to the Crown Prosecution Service.   The titian-haired Medusa described the charge as a ‘weak and unjust’ decision and accused the CPS of ‘unprecedented posturing’. The charge is that she tried to conceal evidence from detectives investigating phone hacking, although the cream of investigative brilliance assigned to this case could always have used the sacks of evidence that they already had stored in their own cellars.  Before the politicians allow themselves excessive gloating over Mrs Brooks’ fate, just remember that, if she goes down, she’ll be aiming to take other miscreants with her.