Rupert the bear finally laid bare before the people

In the Commons, Rupert Murdoch and his son James resembled The Simpsons’ characters Mr Burns and Smithers.

Murdoch bestrode the media world, bullying politicians and the police alike, but while his wife saved him in the Commons last week, she can only protect him for so long. Who will fall with him?

IT was The Crash of the Titan. Rupert laid bare; the Murdochs in the dock. Westminster had the air of Cairo’s Tahrir Square as Rupert Murdoch was hauled before MPs to account for the culture of depravity in The News of the World — the dictator had fallen, the oppression of fear had lifted.