Newspapers are peasants in the digital kingdom - at least its ruler appears to be fairly benevolent The news that Google is spending $7m on newspaper ads all round the world makes me, as a newspaper journalist, feel as if it were Christmas: but a snowy, cold Christmas, and I am a peasant whom King W...

Is there anything new about bishops criticising the government? The Sunday Telegraph found five who were willing to do so at the weekend, and this looks like a coordinated attack. But it isn't, and that is what should really worry the government. To understand why, we need to go back a bit, to the 1...