As we march into a secular age, society is getting oddly moralistic. Certainly, to judge from the extraordinary and sustained controversy over injunctions, the whole idea of the guy with a spotless past getting to throw the first rock is now dead and buried.

And so the mounting storm over privacy law – far from being calmed by the long-awaited publication of the Neuberger report on Friday – rumbled on over the weekend, culminating on Monday, after yet another day of developments, court hearings and outpourings on Twitter, in an MP using Parliamentary privilege to flout a court order.