There is so much happening so fast in this viral crisis now gripping the Murdoch media, the police and the government, with all its threads and layers, that it is almost beyond the scope of this style of blog to tackle.
Nevertheless we can explore angles and today we look at the politics. Because make no mistake, this is now a political event of unusual intensity which could yet become a government crisis. More especially so because it is Ed Milliband, not David Cameron, who now speaks with the authority of public opinion and an instinct for the turn of events, whist the Prime Minister reels under catastrophic pressure. Ed sets the agenda, asks the questions and voices the fears. David reacts and responds, but is always behind the curve in this high speed drama.
The change of political fortunes for Ed Milliband is remarkable. Days ago his leadership was questioned. Now those who voted for him and wondered why they did, know why. Those who did not back him, wish they had. He has suddenly risen to the occasion and grown in stature; calm, measured and convincing. Just the kind of opposition leader every government wants to avoid.
Cameron is fighting back, but he has been too slow to announce his enquiries; too unwilling to apologise for taking to the very heart of government a man about whom there were so many doubts and who is now under arrest; too late to say obliquely that Rebekah should go; too wrapped up in process to admit that News Corp control of BSkyB is now a non-starter and too timid to confront, when it might have counted in his favour, the unsavoury political grip of a Darth Vader Empire, which put its people under such pressure to obtain stories that desperate minions resorted to criminal intrusion and bribery of the very worst kinds.
The political damage, like the seeping hull of the Titanic, may at first seem containable. But wait, for the waters will rise. There will be more arrests, then charges, then trials, then the outpouring of evidence in court, challenged by dynamic defence, pointing the finger this way and that. Beyond that come two enquiries which will rake over the coals and start new fires of public indignation. It should all be over in about three years, just in time for the voters to have their say at a general election.
Whether Cameron can survive that long or whether the coalition can hang together till then, are questions to which the answers grow daily more uncertain.