Oligopolly

While in this instance I agree with Polly Toynbee completely, I don't hold out any hope of Vince Cable displaying any spine. What the UK needs is either for Google to mount a hostile bid for Newskorp with a view to breaking it up, or for awkward squad Liberal Democrats to realise that they have more power than they imagine and demand that News Corporation and News International be reined in and put on a leash so tight that it never gets in the way of democracy again.

Freedom of the press, a good thing, is an entirely different matter from freedom of press ownership. When media ownership is concentrated in too few hands, all that the press becomes free to report is what the owners demand.