The Hit Farm

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Paul Stephenson resigned on Sunday amid a phone-hacking and police-bribery scandal that has tarnished the police in Britain's capital. News and opinion about US politics from a liberal/Democratic/progressive perspective. Given how fast the revelations about phone hacking at UK tabloid News of the World have spread into a full-blown crisis for all [...]

News International and Scotland Yard are facing questions over whether a former News of the World executive was "reporting back" to his old employers while working for the Metropolitan Police. By Martin Beckford Neil Wallis, who was deputy editor of I first learned that the crystalline waters of my private life had been sullied when [...]