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I probably won't get to checkout the 'News of the World' on Sunday after all. The odds are it will have sold out by the time I get there. Look how fast things are happening.

NotW closed down, the editor formerly known as Rebekah Wade taken off the internal inquiry, Coulson arrested, and Cameron almost but not quite admitting he screwed up, which given the revelations that he was warned by more than one source that Coulson was bent, he most decidedly did.

The closing of the News of the World was both magnificent and unfortunate. Magnificently devious in that it has reduced The Dirty Digger's holding in the UK's media thereby giving him a better chance of qualifying to take over SkyTV and simultaneously giving him a chance to save money by replacing two newspapers, the NotW and the Sun, with one, the 7 day Sun. But unfortunate if you happened to work for the NotW, particularly if you were one of the employees brought in after the shirt hit the fan to clean the place up. Small wonder that a lot of employees are a bit miffed that Rebekah Brooks is the only one of the team that is still definitely in employment. Only three people think that Brooks shouldn't resign, the Murdochs and David Cameron, even Brooks thinks maybe she should be off, apparently she offered her resignation but it was refused. Mind you, she probably only offered because she knew it would be turned down...

An interesting thing is the time at which the web addresses sunonsunday.com and sunonsunday.co.uk were taken out. Either someone really smart has second-guessed Murdoch's strategy, or the digger already planned to shut the NotW down way before he announced it, and my money's on option 2.

I await developments with interest, unless Murdoch's strategy succeeds in which case I shall be every bit as miffed as his recently redundant workers.