A Sunny Future?

Never mind Rebekah Brooks. Rupert Murdoch has given up as Editor-in-Chief of The Sun. That is huge.

Murdoch is quite peerless when it comes to reading the signs of the times, so to speak, in his industry. He could see that The Sun had become an anachronism. 84 or no 84, he has acted decisively.

Bringing in Tony Gallagher could mean many things. The end of The Sun's support for assisted suicide, for example.

It is already a very different newspaper from even the recent past. Page 3 has gone. Hillsborough is approaching a resolution. Katie Hopkins  obviously realises that her days are numbered. And now, this.

Is so utterly serious a newsman as Gallagher going to tolerate Harry Cole in the Lobby in his name? I only ask.

Peter Oborne is a big Gallagher fan who has been too long without a regular berth on Fleet Street. All the best people have been sacked from the Daily Telegraph, if they have not jumped before they were pushed.

Murdoch has endorsed Jeremy Corbyn. Might there be a Corbynite column in The Sun? Only once a week, presumably. But even so.

That would show up The Guardian, and there might even be some public sector and trade union advertising revenue in it.

Corbyn has just told a television audience that he did not buy The Sun. I have no doubt that he doesn't. At the moment, why on earth would he?

But he might take a different view if it were paying him. Not instead of his Morning Star column, of course. Heaven forfend. But in addition to it. Why ever not?