Rupert Murdoch gets on his high horse

It was only a matter of time. Nearly two months after Rupert Murdoch joined the Twitterati, he's having a virtual row with pugnacious Labour MP Tom Watson . The News Corporation capo di tutti capi tweeted in defence of Rebekah Brooks , erstwhile apple of his eye and News International chief executive, over a certain equine story : "Now they are complaining about R Brooks saving an old horse from the glue factory!" Watson, who last year took his dogged pursuit of Murdoch over phone-hacking all the way to the News Corp AGM in Los Angeles, was having none of it: "@rupertmurdoch You comment on her horse but not on her insider knowledge of a criminal investigation into your company. Have you no shame?" Can't the poor guy get a moment's peace? On Wednesday Murdoch was kebabed by Alice Sheridan , feisty maw of former MSP Tommy Sheridan, who yelled "scum" at the soon-to-be 81-year-old as he was being bundled into News International's Glasgow office. At this rate, KRM may end up agreeing with some of News Corp's more rebellious US investors – that owning UK newspapers just isn't worth the hassle any more.