Charles Moore: 'Don't mourn News of the World'

Charles Moore in the Daily Telegraph today has no time for those regretting the passing of the News of the World.

He writes: "It has surprised me to read fellow defenders of the free press saying how sad they are that the News of the World closed. In its stupidity, narrowness and cruelty, and in its methods, the paper was a disgrace to the free press. No one should ever have banned it, of course, but nor should anyone mourn its passing. It is rather as if supporters of parliamentary democracy were to lament the collapse of the BNP."