By Sean Carey

“Brooks is almost indefinable – a contemporary shapeshifter, light and dark, adored and loathed,” reports The Guardian. “One moment, she is charming her way through life, the perfect party girl with her cheek and charm, taking Sun reporters to the annual love-in with their readers at an old Butlins holiday camp, chatting to the lady who serves the coffee in the Old Bailey canteen.”

Acquitted yesterday after a near eight-month trial of charges of phone hacking, the former editor of the U.K.’s News of the World, Rupert Murdoch’s most loyal and favorite editor, unsurprisingly has been the focus of much press comment. By contrast her former colleague and lover Andy Coulson, another former News of the World editor, was found guilty of conspiring to hack phones and faces a long prison sentence. Continue reading “If you want to get on in life try acting like Rebekah Brooks” →