Beyond Contempt, The Inside Story of the Phone Hacking Trial by Peter Jukes:
Although Beyond Contempt by Peter Jukes was a bit of a random purchase – making use of a discount code by Canbury after Ian Dunt’s ‘How to Be A Liberal’ had it’s publication date pushed back – I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Recently I have read a lot of books very quickly after their publication. It was a pleasant surprise to be reading a book on a topic that prompted a period of reflection. Judging whether British tabloid press had really changed after the phone-hacking scandal was intriguing. We only have to look back a few weeks and to the tragic death of Caroline Flack, in part caused by the tabloid media to see that things aren’t really all that different. This context, provoked different feelings than what I would have originally felt back in 2014 if I had read Beyond Contempt as it was published.