One after another, our institutions are tumbling...

First Parliament, then Fleet Street, now the police. We used to take for granted, if not always the integrity, then at least the independence of these bodies. The House of Commons, we told ourselves, was not some servile Continental legislature: it was there to hold ministers to account. Nor were our newspapers mouthpieces of the ruling faction, nor our policemen agents of the government.

The vertiginous events of the past fortnight, culminating in the arrest of Rebekah Brooks and the resignation of Sir Paul Stephenson, have left people shaken and angry. To the extent that any coherent image has formed, it is of a cabal of newspaper executives, police chiefs and politicians conspiring against the public weal. The British Establishment hasn’t looked so vulnerable since the collapse of the mid-Seventies. More...

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