Indeed there is an entire chapter devoted to what I know, guess or assumed during my ten years writing a weekly page for The Sun.

But now verdicts are in let me simply say - I reckon every paper and every journalist worth his or her salt knew or were even using information gained from tapping phones or whatever the current phraseology is.

I think Andy Coulson has suffered from the same moral panic that I did and that many others, in different ways, are experiencing these days.

In the 48 years since I became a minor celebrity I've always assumed that all my communications - phone, letters, faxes, e mails - are routinely hacked into. Par for the course.

I don't believe Coulson was any worse or better than anyone else - including Brooks, Piers Morgan or Rupert Murdoch.

The only surprising thing for me is daily discovering how the public fall for anything they are told.