Hack a phone? I wouldn't know how ... | Simon Hoggart

But a nose for news together with mouse-like cunning got me out of a few tight squeaks✒At a time like this, all journalists ought to examine their consciences, those sometimes atrophied organs. I've never hacked a phone, and wouldn't know how; in my early days the height of criminality was thought to be acquiring a carbon copy of a rival's article.I did have one felonious moment. A woman in Belfast had been shouting imprecations from her kitchen window at paratroopers who were in her neighbour...

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