Iran's official Islamic Republic News Agency knows, of course, the real scandal behind phone hacking. According to a British "analyst", one Peter Eyre, interviewed on its website, all of us are being spied on by the government, police etc under the sway of what he calls "the Zionist of the New World Order".

But the truth is being stopped from getting out, he says, because of people like Rupert Murdoch who is "a Zionist with 100 per cent support of Israel".