Conceivably, your girlfriend’s hacked into yours to see if you’ve been having an affair

Nervous, unkempt former News of the World executive Paul McMullan appeared on BBC2’s Newsnight talking about hacking mobile phones, impertinently telling Jeremy Paxman: ‘Conceivably, your girlfriend’s hacked into yours to see if you’ve been having an affair.’ A friend comments: ‘In the most unlikely event of Paxman straying from the nest, his girlfriend, Elizabeth Clough, is far too dignified to do any such thing.’