Where’s Sally Bercow when you need her?” a journalist from Private Eye tweeted as social media went into rumour overdrive about why Rupert Murdoch and his wife, Wendi Deng, are separating.

Former Times editor told journalists he was 'determined' to bring greater gender parity to on-air presenting and reporting team

Energy giant BP has reached out to David Cameron for help with the escalating cost of compensating US companies for the disastrous oil spill in 2010.

This new system, which connects strangers and celebrities, seems far behind Twitter

The Mayor of London usually escapes tough questioning with his buffoonery

If, as the noises off suggest, Paul Tucker is the next Governor, he has to persuade Andy Haldane to stay and maintain his fight against the system

Outlook Talking of bets, it looks like a sure one the Glencore/Xstrata merger will be put out of its misery next week by opposition from 12 per cent shareholder Qatar Holding (plus a surprise Norse raid from Norges Bank Investment Management).

Fiscal policy, eh? Phwoar! Triple-A ratings: they get the blood pumping, don't they? And don't even get us started on eurozone rescue-fund implementation...

Some of his BBC colleagues are a little too aggressive, Evan Davis tells Ben Riley-Smith

Some of his BBC colleagues are a little too aggressive, Evan Davis tells Ben Riley-Smith

There's a certain type of listener that organises their day around what's on the radio. The Today programme might haul them out of bed on a weekday morning and see them through breakfast and ablutions, while lunch might be accompanied by Jeremy Vine declaiming about cuckolding vicars. For me, Friday evenings aren't complete without a glass of wine and the sound of Jonathan Dimbleby on Any Questions quietly banging his head on the desk at being called David for the 874th time.

More bad news for HMV. Not only is the embattled entertainment chain suffering at the hands of Amazon and iTunes for its old business of flogging music. It now faces formidable pre-Christmas competition for sales of headphones, which Simon Fox, the chief executive, is pinning his hopes on to revive the business. No less fearsome a rival than Dr Dre, the rapper and music producer, is unleashing a pop-up shop in London to sell his range of "cans", as those of us who move in music business circles like to call them.

In both situations, the PM took the decision and then looked for the evidence to back it up