Sugar and Morgan have had a few twitter run ins before.  One was about their respective viewer ratings for their shows.

I'm sorry, but I cannot stand Louise Mensch (even though in German that means Human Being). She's a complete twit who opens her mouth for the sake of it rather than for something to say meaningful and intelligent. I'm with Piers and Sugar for the first time ever.

I thought she was really good on Tuesday ( even though it goes against the grain to say that! ) She and Tom Watson didn't let the Murdochs off the hook.

I'm sorry slinki. but I really think she's self serving. There's no real meat in her opinions, she just seems to go for the Newsnight chat.

Possibly, I don't know much about her other than what I saw on Tuesday, and I thought she and Watson were excellent in that setting.

Yeah Slinki, I don't take that much notice of politics. All about the same to me but from what I saw the two of them seemed to know what was going on 

I agree, both of  them seemed by far better than the others at getting to the point directly....although I thought Watson was the more informed, she didn't hold back either 

I think Watson might be my new hero

we'll start a fan club Slinki 

 ! Deal! 

Louise Mensch has not been off the telly all week. Her roots need doing *miaoww*

 I'll join  

I just have to say here .................Tom Watson is a great name .........................the MP, the golfer and best of all MY SON (named after the golfer).

Oooo I love him and Chris Bryant...they've both been absolute stars in the good fight against Murdoch 

Louise Mensch practically admitted that she'd got it wrong, on Newsnight.

I can't stand the Morgan, but all we know for sure, as yet, is that he printed fake pictures for fake stories. I'm hopeful more will come out, when the enquiry widens. 

She's one of the few Tories I can tolerate.  Although I'm no expert on her every utterance, and being a Tory woman, it's only a matter of time before she annoys me but from what I've seen of her so far, she speaks her mind and isn't afraid to say things counter to the old boy consensus of her party.

Yes, I saw that. Although he hasn't (as far as I'm aware) written anything directly incriminating, Piers "Morgan" Moron's book does contain some rather supicious passages, and my guess is that Mensch simply misremembered some of them.

I do think Moron is playing a very dangerous game by fighting back at Mensch, though. As Private Eye has pointed out repeatedly, there have been a lot of stories from colleagues and even Moron himself that - if hard evidence turns up - could very easily put him in the same position that Rebekah Brooks was in where there are only two possibilities: either he was complicit, or else he was incompetent. And of course when it comes to Moron, we've been here before: the Mirror shares scandal.
And guess who's come out of the woodwork recently to claim that celebrity stories at the Mirror were often the result of phone hacking? James Hipwell...
 
Moron may have a defence, though, and oddly it comes courtesy of the Eye. His published diaries (as the Eye has had great fun recently pointing out) are chock-full of inaccuracies (e.g. claiming to have had tea with Tony Blair at No. 10 while John Major was still PM), so he could perhaps just claim that any incriminating passages were misremembered...

Ah yes, I'd forgotten about the shares thingummy, Eugene! 

I'm fairly sure that all the tabloids will have some filthy secrets exposed, by the end of this. 

This is essentially Mensch's point: it's why she isn't conceding anything to Moron just yet, and it's why - although I share some of the concerns expressed here about her motives - I'm giving her the benefit of the doubt for the time-being.

The current issue of Private Eye points out that after the trial of Mulcaire and Goodman, The Information Commissioner brought out a report which contained a "league table" detailing recorded transactions in which newspapers illegally obtained personal information. The NOTW only came 5th on it: The Daily Mail came top (952 transactions), and The People was second. The Mail on Sunday also made the top 5 (don't know what other title was above the NOTW...)