Sir, – When former News of the Worldeditor, Rebekah Brooks comes to write in her memoirs of the momentous July day when she and her Murdoch bosses killed a 168-year-old best-selling British newspaper, peremptorily axed 200 jobs and she refused to resign from her own position as chief executive of News International, will she be able to resist saying: ". . . at that point I made my excuses and stayed"? – Yours, etc,