The famous Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein, who is in London to cover the Hutton Inquiry, provided those campaigning for London’s top courts to be upgraded with some juicy ammunition during an interview on the BBC’s Today programme last Friday (29 August).

Commenting on the facilities at the High Court, where the Inquiry is taking place, Bernstein lambasted the “depressing, dingy room with none of the magisterium of this great institution”.