PIE IN THE SKY

Rupert Murdoch received what might be the closest he gets to justice this Tuesday when he got pied by an activist who’d been waiting for his chance armed with a paper plate and shaving foam.

Comedian and sometime UK Uncut activist “Jonnie Marbles” was promptly arrested and carted away (to write an article for the Grauniad from his holding cell), leaving Murdoch to (nearly) face the music in front of a toothless parliamentary committee. Murdoch might have been glad of the distraction, as his empire has been held up to the light for pretty much the first time ever, and clan Murdoch has revealed itself as being vulnerable to mortal weapons (see SchNEWS 778).

Meanwhile, the backlash from News International hacks’ electronic gravedigging has claimed the careers of more of Britain’s elite, with two of the country’s most senior coppers the latest to be given the boot. Who would have thought that police, political and media figures would be conspiring and scheming together? There is a whole generation of politicunts and journoshits out there hoping this slow churn of revelations and resultant scrutiny stops before it spreads from only News International and engulfs them all...