I suppose we shall have to get used to pronouncing Leveson wrongly, after all Dave has already done it and it is does not matter what you know about someone as long as you can pronounce his name. One thing that I do know about him is that as a QC he failed to get a conviction when he prosecuted Ken Dodd for tax evasion. Oh, he is well liked by his colleagues which means that they don't regard him as a threat. Mediocrity wins again! And if Dave has chosen him to conduct the latest inquiry then he must be the wrong man. But we all know what will happen. The inquiry will last for much longer than the advertised twelve months, be applauded for being 'even handed', put on a shelf and forgotten.
In any case we surely must know that hacking is rife in Fleet Street. Reporters have to get the story and the sleaziest papers don't care how it is done.
Fats Waller almost got it right in his song, 'Trucking':
There had to be some new way
To get the news about the screws
So everybody's hacking....
But perhaps 'Fats' was just using the title as a euphemism.
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