As Alexander Lebedev can testify, there are few things more undignified than the sight of middle-aged men brawling.

So Axegrinder was dismayed to see former News of the World editor Phil Hall make the verbal equivalent of a Lebedev-style assault on media commentator Roy Greenslade after being asked what seemed like a fairly reasonable question by him at the Leveson Inquiry seminar yesterday.

Roy Greenslade: “No-one has addressed the business about pressure on the editor, Phil Hall didn’t tell us about how he came to depart from the News of the World.  I think it would be instructive if he were able to tell the inquiry how his editorial content was one the major causes of his being required by his proprietor to step down.”