Former News of the World editor and PM’s former communications chief, Andy Coulson, has been detained by Strathclyde Police on suspicion of committing perjury at the trial of former MSP Tommy Sheridan in 2010. The 44-year-old was arrested by seven officers from Strathclyde Police at his home in the Dulwich area of London at 6.30 am and is being taken to Glasgow for questioning. “Officers from Strathclyde Police’s Operation Rubicon team detained a 44-year-old man…

As Tony Blair gave evidence at the Leveson inquiry today, a protester appeared behind Lord Justice Leveson at the High Court and accused the former prime minister of being a “war criminal”. The unidentified man stormed in Lord Justice Leveson’s private office and accused Tony Blair of receiving £6 million from investment bank JP Morgan, which he linked to the Iraq War that defined his premiership. “This man should be arrested for war crimes. JP Morgan paid him off…

Tony Blair’s links with Rupert Murdoch and his media empire during his tenure as British prime minister will come under investigation when the Labour politician appears at the Leveson inquiry today. The inquiry has so far stressed on the close ties between Murdoch’s empire and serving ministers, helping opposition leader Ed Miliband consolidate his position with attacks on David Cameron. However, questioning Blair could foil Miliband’s attempt to portray Labour as a party above…

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch on the second day of the Leveson inquiry into the phone hacking scandal at the Sunday edition of the Sun admitted that the news firm had a few cover-ups. There was one very cunning lawyer, Murdoch disclosed, adding that “one or two people” at the News of the World concealed the inside stories from the senior people there. Murdoch, however, refused to reveal names of the…

Ofcom today launched an investigation into Sky News, owned by Rupert Murdoch’s British Sky Broadcasting, after the channel admitted hacking the emails of criminals to generate a story. The Office of Communications investigation came after Sky, earlier this month, admitted that it accessed the accounts of “canoe man” John Darwin and his wife Anne, along with that of a suspected paedophile. “We stand by these actions as editorially justified and…