It wasn't the Murdochs, but watching Sir Paul Stephenson, John Yates and Dick Fedorcio give evidence was quite an eye-opener.
Mysterious bags dumped in car parks, investigations into the Met and the death of a whistleblower. Seriously, who called John le Carre?
This really is an über shitstorm. Another senior Met officer goes, and Boris Johnson experiences a very tense press conference.
We try to make sense of the whole bloody mess so far: what's happened, who's involved and whether any of it matters (hint: it does).
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