Rich and Poor

A tiny details within the News of the World debacle is how journos nicked by the Old Bill are treated.

If you or I were to be busted for illegally accessing phones and medical records, along with corrupting the police, we could expect a van-load of helmeted goons charging through our door at dawn.

For News International staff though, this indignity is replaced by the far less inconvenient arrangement of being invited along to a police station to be arrested.

How civilised for them.