Thanks to Andrew Gilligan at the Sunday Telegraph we have meat to the suspicion that some in the UK political class will use the phone-hacking scandal at the now defunct News of the World to push for regulation that would muzzle papers from disclosing their wrong-doing or graft. The Hacked Off campaign that actor Hugh Grant fronts is partly funded by lobbyists at Sovereign Strategy, which was accused of involvement in a “cash-for-access” operation to serving Labour ministers. The company employed also former Labour minister Lord Moonie who was caught in a press sting offering to help clients amend laws for £30,000.