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a media service provided by New Statesman A digest of all today’s essential comment and opinion TODAY'S SUMMARY All change 07 September 2010 The News of the World phone-hacking scandal rumbles on, with an Independent editorial speculating whether the Labour Party has only changed track because it is no longer afraid to cross Rupert Murdoch's media empire. The affair has also brought into question the independence of the Metropolitan police. Following the successful second reading of the AV Bill last night, Polly Toynbee predicts a messy three-way row about the fine print down the legislative line. In the Economist, Blighty's write-up of the Tube strikes gives us the opening bars of the austerity blues. Paul Krugman at the New York Times tells us that to find precedent for our derailed economy, we need to look not at the late 1970's but the late 1930's, while Gideon Rachman wants to do away with grandstanding economists altogether (from the pages of the FT, no less). CATEGORIES > UK Politics > International Politics > Economics & Business > Security & Defence > Environment > Science & Technology > Culture, Media & Sport > Health, Family & Society > Education > Human Rights, Law, Justice   If you would rather not receive this email, please unsubscribe from the list. CommentPlus is a Data Controller for the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1998. ©CommentPlus 2010. You are receiving this newsletter because you are a valued subscriber to New Statesman. Your email address has not been, and will not be, given to third parties.