Daily Telegraph diarist Tim Walker has gone one better than his revelation a couple of weeks ago about the voicemail instruction on Kelvin MacKenzie's mobile phone:
"I am not here right now, but leave a message and Rebekah will get back to you".
Today he reports that he is "reliably informed" that Rebekah Brooks, who resigned as chief executive of News International on 15 July, is still being paid by the company.
He quotes an informant as saying: "My understanding is that Rupert has told her to travel the world on him for a year and then he will find a job for her when the scandal has died down."
Walker writes:
"When I call News International to inquire if Brooks is still on the payroll, they refer me to her personal publicist at Bell Pottinger.
'We're offering no comment on your query regarding Rebekah,' Steve Double tells me, helpfully."
