You could hear a pin drop in London's House of Commons as the parties on all sides of the political divide debated the latest phone hacking scandal, in which a tabloid newspaper is alleged to have hacked into the mobile phone accounts of private individuals, including murder victims, to glean juicy secrets to spread across the front pages.
How noble. Everyone is "shocked", "revolted", "disgusted"; the Leader of the Opposition, Ed Miliband, even told the press how horrified his wife was. Wow! So how righteous the British have become all of a sudden.Is this not, however, a simple overview of what British society is secretly become, namely a cabal of inept, insipid voyeurs amazed at each other in a nudge-nudge, wink-wink system jammers and finicky kids without one iota of conscience?