Her arrest is bound to be particularly wounding to Mr. Murdoch, who, asked early last week to identify his chief priority in the affair, pointed to Ms. Brooks and said, "This one".
Johnson denied that there had been a failure of political leadership over the affair pointing out that the original investigation began in 2006 – two years before he ousted Ken Livingston to be elected London mayor.
"Given that the Defra-commissioned reports into the Bernard Matthews affair pointed clearly to breaches in the regulations, and that there was TV footage of wild birds feeding off open waste bins at the plant containing poultry meat, this is an astonishing decision," he said.
Toshio Oguchi, representative director of Governance for Owners in Tokyo, argued that the affair pointed to a dysfunctional board: "Even if they didn't know about the tobashi, the fact that the board approved the payment cannot have been a correct decision".
"In many countries, the poor are getting poorer," said Laszlo Andor, the E.U. commissioner for employment and social affairs, pointing to a growing North-South divergence.
"I recall that there was a certain amount of maybe uncertainty and some missteps, in terms of who had the baton on the public affairs point," he said.
Outside Benjamin Franklin High School, Arlene Fields, a mother of a student and a nonunion consultant on parent involvement in school affairs, pointed to the building and said, "Don't worry, they're still teaching and learning in there".
Apologists for this state of affairs point out that it was the European court of human rights that handed down the judgment, which sprang from the European convention on human rights.
PARIS — The departing chief of European Aeronautic Defense and Space urged European governments on Thursday to refrain from meddling in company affairs, pointing to robust earnings in 2011 and record jet orders at its Airbus unit as proof that national interests were being served by the group's recent turnaround.
