News that Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of the troubled News of the World, has now been arrested in the phone tapping scandal raises fresh doubts - previously unsuspected - about the ethics of creative writing programs. Let me explain...

I've just had a delightful end-term lunch with my fellow tutors at the university where, to the distress of publishers, I teach creative writing. To evade campus professors and other spies, we huddled toge...

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