Coulson makes resignation history

A Matthew Norman gem in today's Independent on Andy Coulson offering his resignation to the prime minister: "The first person in history to offer to resign twice for something of which he knew nothing." Norman also refers to continuing speculation that News International is paying the legal bills for Glenn Mulcaire , the "private investigator" who hacked into phones on behalf of Coulson's News of the World . Surely this allegation cannot be true. It is inconceivable that Rupert Murdoch would bankroll a man who was jailed for intercepting voicemails on behalf of a single rogue reporter who also went to prison.