Speaking of Rupert Murdoch with anything but newfound disgust has become the order of the day in Westminster circles. Not so for Michael Gove. The cabinet minister used his party's annual conference on Monday to extol the virtues of the embattled media mogul. "I think he is a force of nature and a phenomenon. I think he is a great man," the education secretary told delegates in Manchester. Gove, a former leader writer and news editor at the Times, which is owned by Murdoch, remains the loyal servant.
