WHAT are we to do with Rupert Murdoch? Enhanced Coverage LinkingRupert Murdoch? -Search using:News, Most Recent 60 DaysBiographies Plus NewsParliament's Media Select Committee has put on its black cap, and pronounced that he is unfit to run a public company. The Murdoch retinue has been rightly castigated. But where do we go next, for are we even half way through this story? Can I set out another view to the one which now dominates the media? Not, I add, on the wickedness of hacking Milly Dowler's mobile phone.

THIS week's release of official figures showing Britain sliding back into recession is very bad news. That they are politically damaging to the Government is the least of my concerns. The plain truth is that the data does not take into account the full picture. They are based on only 40% of the data which will be used to calculate the official figure next month. The initial figures are regularly revised. Last week's figure will damage our prospects for recovery and a growth of jobs. A lack of recovery will at some point put our credit rating at risk. A downgrading of our credit rating will significantly push up the cost of Government borrowing. That borrowing was scheduled to rise every year until 2015, providing the economy recovered. This recovery date now will be pushed further into the future, and that means the size of the national debt will grow, the amount of tax levied simply to pay the interest charge will similarly grow, and living standards will be cut further. It me

THE dependence of all three political parties on big donations to run their machines is again in the news. This time we see how the Tories are dependent on a very few rich male donors. How big will be the damage of these latest revelations to the much sought-after new Tory image? Well before the last election, the Tories were busy trying to detoxify themselves. No more the “nasty” party, but one on the side of the people. Do the latest revelations blow to pieces this newly-constructed image?

A BBC-COMMISSIONED survey showed that 94% of us think the country is full up. Not surprisingly, a government poll showed 75% of voters wanted to see the immigration figures coming down, and half the population thought the figure should fall by a lot. I was proposing the motion that “enough is enough”.

I AM still reeling from the shock of appearing on the BBC's Question Time programme last week.