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Monday 18 June 2012
Leading article: Anyone upwardly mobile has more than one phone
As the Leveson Inquiry into media standards draws towards its final phase, revelations that James Murdoch and other News International executives had second phones – and questions about the messages that may have been on them – are disturbing MPs.
Excitement has been heightened by reports that the bill for the "secret" phones came to thousands of pounds a month, and that the bills went up sharply after the Prime Minister announced the Leveson Inquiry last July. At least one MP has asked News International to explain why its executives needed two phones.
Aren't MPs, not to put too fine a point, revealing their age in sounding so shocked by the whole second-phone business? Owning several mobile phones is hardly the prerogative of Gulf monarchs these days, and one might have thought it was obvious that Mr Murdoch had more than just a BlackBerry.
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Austerity has hardened the nation's heart
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After woman sells virginity for $780,000, here are the results of our prostitution survey
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The Daily Cartoon
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As Google and Apple are probed on tax avoidance, it's time for political leaders around the world to take a stand and stamp the practice out
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Letters: Why A&E units are struggling
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Editorial: The case for keeping the Coalition is clear
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Our British democracy is a presidential system - minus the President
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What a kiss can tell us about the Royal Family - and our own stiff upper-lip
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Editorial: The price we pay for open justice
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