Without Liarbility

News Group Newspapers, the hilariously misnamed publisher of the Supreme Leader's scumbag rag, is seeking to emphasise its innocence of any wrongdoing by setting aside yet more millions to pay off claimants in phone-hacking cases. A dozen years after the unlamented demise of the hilariously misnamed News of the World, and in the face of no sanctions whatever save those which can be legally secured by the incredibly wealthy, the red-top revolutionary guard remains under siege, thanks to the refusal by an enemy of the people to impose a statute of limitations. A spokesbeing pointed out that the commercial practice of paying off litigants in order to avoid a fair trial is so common as to verge upon the vulgar, and admitted that this year's scumbag sector borrowing requirement will be higher owing to, as the delicate phrasing hath it, "a glut of individuals" coming forth to indulge their vindictiveness. In the event of excessive losses, and in keeping with the can-do spirit of entrepreneurial go-gettingness, the British dependency of the Supreme Leader's empire has been authorised to approach its American overlord and squeal for a subsidy.