I thought I’d reorganise the information in this Peter Oborne post. I plotted the number of times each newspaper group reported on the phone-screwing case against the number of times they were caught paying for information. Even I was surprised when the R^2 correlation came out as 0.94 – a near perfect inverse relationship. The…
Read More fun with charts!I still can’t get over this morning’s Cameron press conference. The incredible thing, as I said, was the transition in what was respectable to discuss. The Guardian went the whole hog and brought up the whole ball of police corruption, and Michael Crick of the BBC pressed very hard on the question of the money.…
Read More transmission beltIn an effort to clear some of the NOTWFail stuff out of my mind, I thought I’d try to come up with some useful pointers for further investigation. 1. The Daniel Morgan/Southern Investigations line of inquiry This is by far the most serious accusation, in every sense. It has police corruption, a murder, and the…
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