The End of the World is Nigh

And so the phone hacking story takes another, more dramatic, turn. This Sunday will now see the last ever edition of the News of the World. Cynics are saying that this is just a ploy from Messrs Murdoch to make the takeover of BSkyB more likely. And it can't simply be a coincidence that thesunonsunday.com and thesunonsunday.co.uk were registered as domain names just a couple of days ago. Surely no-one will be taken in by such a rebranding exercise?