The Culture, Media and Sports Select Committee of the British Parliament published a report this week that was very critical of Murdoch father and son for their handling of, and attitudes to, the phone hacking that went on at Rupert Murdoch's favourite UK newspaper, The News of the World. One sentence in the report said the Committee also found that Rupert Murdoch was not a fit and proper person to run BskyB, the real money-making arm of the UK bit of his empire.

But then it turned out that four Conservative MPs on the multi-party committee didn't sign up to that particular statement. One of them, MP and successful author Louise Mensch, said that in fact that specific issue had not actually come up for discussion.

She is blonde, rather attractive (I think), and was noticeably tough in her questioning of the Murdochs when they appeared before the select committee. But now - since she spoke up with her cavil about that most critical of many sentences, she has been the object of abusive tweets from Murdoch haters - amongst whom I would count myself. They are calling her a whore; they have said they would like to hit her in the face with a hammer, or strangle her...

Do these idiot tweeters really think they have done anything for our case?