As he said in Downfall: "You couldn't make this shit up!!". That is doubtless why this whole sordid mess surrounding News of the World phone hacking makes such a compelling story. Of course it could be made up out of whole cloth, but this has lots of very real, very sordid details that will just keep emerging. It wasn't a Genie in that bottle. It was Murdoch and Cameron's nemesis, and for every celebrity or public person who got tormented by NOTW gossip it seems as if Nemesis is visiting ten times the anguish on those two. At this rate Cameron could be gone by the fall.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."