It contains several hundred million emails sent and received over the years by employees of the News of the World - and of the three other Murdoch titles. Data Pool 3 is so big that the police are not even attempting to read every message. Instead, there are two teams searching it for key words: a detective sergeant with five detective constables from Scotland Yard working secretly on criminal leads; and 32 civilians working for the Management and Standards Committee, providing information for the civil actions brought by public figures and for the Leveson inquiry and passing relevant material to police.

Phone hacking is one thing, but I wonder how much evidence of political spin, character assassination and undisclosed servitude to special interests is and will remain un-analysed on Data Pool 3.

Thinking further into the future: should the Murdoch Empire fall, who will be the surviving forces of evil in British media? Or to ask it differently, is there any chance to bring down the media empires of Lord Rothermere (the one with the tax-evasion French château), and the Barclay brothers (the ones with the tax-evasion Channel Islands and Monaco homes)?

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}