Leveson's phone-hacking show trial has a cruel virtue

My Leveson scepticism is fading. Public humiliation of Murdoch and co is where its value lies, not judgments on media reform

This week's allegations against the Sun newspaper and the Metropolitan police are serious. They are no everyday story of journalistic folk, of sleazy reporters and bent coppers after a tip-off. The police investigator, Sue Akers, told the Leveson inquiry of a systematic "culture of illegal payments" to suborn officials in various government departments, some involving...