The closing down of the News of the World, amidst much wailing and gnashing of teeth, is, of course, the biggest news story of the day. There are many fine journalists in this country but there are others who are perfectly represented by the 1980s television programme, Spitting Image, as pigs fighting over food in a trough.
 Any journalist suspected of involvement in the telephone hacking referred to in the press and any policemen alleged to have taken bribes should be investigated as quickly as possible. As usual there will be calls for a public enquiry, no doubt because it is in the interests of certain politicians for this course of action to be taken. It is the wrong course, however, and, irrespective of the embarassment to those in authority, a criminal investigation should be undertaken immediately with those found guilty facing the full weight of the law. Their victims deserve no less.