Analysis: Comcast, Disney and the ongoing battle for Sky

There is greed, control and power aplenty, and endless twists and turns of the plot.

There are big personalities some of whom hate each other with a fury. Just out of view elemental forces, which some regard as sinister, are responsible for orchestrating events just by doing what they do.

To add to the general mayhem, politicians and regulators have been strutting their stuff – dissecting the entrails of the deal, in search of the meaning of plurality and where the public interest ultimately lies.

Along the way there was a telling intervention by an anonymous wisdom of a London black cab driver and a key turning point…