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Phone hacking - the silence of the censors

It's time this chapter of hysteria was drawn to a close

28 June 2014

9:00 AM

28 June 2014

9:00 AM

We have not heard much from Hugh Grant this week. Nor from Max Mosley, Steve Coogan or any of the other bizarre array of celebrities and moguls who wanted to use the phone-acking scandal as an excuse to end British press freedom. For some time, they argued that the press had become a law unto itself, and it was time for politicians to regulate it.

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