Lead story

Murdoch’s tangled web

by Daphne Liddle

THE LEVESON Inquiry into phone hacking at the former News of the World produced its first arrest last Tuesday as the former editor of that paper Rebekah Brooks, her husband racehorse trainer Charlie Brooks and three minions were charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice.

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Communists rally as Greeks go to new poll

by our European Affairs correspondent

GREECE goes to the polls again in June after all efforts to form a new coalition collapsed this week. None of the three biggest blocs won a majority in the May general election and none of them have been able to form a working coalition or agree on a “unity” coalition to deal with the debt crisis that has brought the country to its knees.

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Editorial

Workers should seize the time

A WEEK after its elections Greece still has no government. Those parties willing to enforce the extreme austerity measures demanded by the requirements of the defence of the Eurozone, and in particular the German government, have no mandate to govern. And those that could have a mandate refuse to inflict more suffering on the Greek people.

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