While new revelations on the saga are pouring in by the hour, The Magistrate's Blog points out that there's a fair amount of repeat revelation as Wade admitted to paying police officers for information years ago. In other news, Michael White is busy brandishing his insider credentials and reminds us that the NOTW isn't all bad as some of the chaps he knows are of the decent sort and, after all, tabloids can reveal the kind of scandals that the broadsheets never could – almost as if they have some sort of secret means of gathering exclusive information.

It seems pretty likely the scandal will spread, what remains to see is in what direction. Many would like this to spread up and damage the News Corporation empire (and James Forsyth points out that animosity towards Murdoch can be found in  unexpected parts of the political spectrum) which could have fatal consequence for the BSkyB deal (I like to imagine this was all part of Vince Cable war-plan and, from his secret base under the streets of London, he's getting set to have the last laugh). But also joining the usual suspects in hoping this stays in Murdoch's house will be the various tabloids who would really like this particularly large dot on the map of awful abuses of privacy by newspapers not to spread sideways and get joined-up with other, less popular dots such as the 'fitting up the weird guy who looks like he probably did it' that the Mirror and Sun just got held in contempt for.

Of course not everyone is choosing to play the same game and from Liberal England we learn that The Telegraph is boldly closing in on the real villain of the story, the BBC.