Toby Young joins the Firm

This is Toby Young, writing of Milly Dowler, in anticipation of his new job writing a weekly column of crap in the Sun on Sunday, the new News of the World:

@Glinner That murdered girl thing? Check the Guardian story. turned out to be balls. Get off your high horse

— Toby Young (@toadmeister) February 25, 2012

This is the old News of the World, back when News International believed themselves to be untouchable:

The papers state that from 2008 on, the News of the World had a legal obligation to “preserve all relevant evidence” of phone hacking because it had been notified of civil claims that were pending.

But in Nov 2009 it created the “Email Deletion Policy” to “eliminate in a consistent manner across News International (subject to compliance with legal and regulatory requirements) emails that could be unhelpful in the context of future litigation in which an NI company is a defendant”.