The British press is prone to periodic bouts of uncontrollable rage. It turns, from time to time, on a particular target and vents its fury. When these episodes take place, all pretence of balance or argument is left behind. Last week was the week of privacy madness.
The familiar rant against amoral judges and shameless celebrities has been spiced up with a touch of populist feminism: those obtaining these injunctions and ‘gagging’ the British press are, apparently, all “rich males”. Although this particular social sub-group is not normally subject to unfavourable comment in the Mail, Times and Telegraph, some of its members have committed the unforgivable sin of trying to cut the tabloids off from their essential sources of reader titillation.
