Andy Coulson, the Conservative party’s communications chief, will next week be questioned by MPs about phone-hacking by News of the World journalists during his time as editor of the paper. Andrew Sparrow, The Guardian.

I’ll answer a question that neither MPs nor journalists seem to be asking. What does it say about the Conservative Party when they employ a man such as Coulson? Tabloid journalism is the lowest of the low full of sensationalism, gossip, half-truths, outright lies and deceit – I tell you what it says about the Conservatives don’t trust them for a minute.