A Perfectly Innocent Encounter

A couple of Murdoch flunkeys have had a lengthy conversation at a party for the tax-avoidance set. Daveybloke bumped into Rebekah Brooks at a Chipping Norton rah-rah and burbled with an intensity which at least one witness found surprising. Since Brooks is unemployed at the moment, it seems likely that Daveybloke was attempting to persuade her of the virtue of labour and the wonders of the Big Society thingy, although it is regrettably not recorded whether she wept listening to him. In any case, Daveybloke's eagerness to get back on the horse with Brooks stands in stark contrast to his brief and possibly fictitious exchange earlier this year with his ex-cuddly communications director, Honest Andy Coulson. It will be remembered that, lacking Brooks' favoured-foster-child status, Coulson had to sue Murdoch for help with his legal fees; so perhaps Daveybloke is simply trying to refine his own rather flatulent social graces by emulating the master's.