Why has Rebekah Brooks hung on to her job and two hundred others have n't ? Answers on a postcard, please.

There's something nefarious going on. It's murky. Either she's acting as a firewall to protect James Murdoch from the toxicity that's billowing out because of this scandal - there's more than one suggestion going round that he knows more than he's letting on - or she has some hold over him, and so he dare n't get rid of her, or risk the whole house come down.

News International has been an intimidating, menacing presence for decades in Britain. The politicos, especially the Tories, have kow-towed to Murdoch abjectly, he's more or less had free reign to pull any levers he's wanted to; it's always the veiled threat whispered in the ear, that NI has some dubious story, or will concoct one, and then mobilise an army of outraged citizens on the back of that, and so they've all been too fearful to take him on, other than a few individuals and the Guardian.

That's been blown apart this week. There's no fear. It's liberation from media tyranny that's hobbled the British body politic for years. Nevertheless this man is too cunning, I can't see him being humbled by this.

I'm very proud of the Guardian's lone stand and tenacity in plugging way at this. I've been a Guardian reader since I was 18. It's the only principled paper in the UK