Few moments have encapsulated the vast inequalities at the centre of the British media more than the assault on Carole Cadwalladr. A freelance features writer for the Observer, Carole got a whiff of a story about nefarious affairs in the Brexit campaign, and, for years after the vote, kept digging.
Around the same time, Peter Geoghegan and I started sniffing out a similar but different story, and also started digging. Our paths often crossed; we sometimes shared notes and pints.
Since then, Peter and I have moved on to other work. But Carole hasn’t been able to. One of the main subjects of both of our investigations, Arron Banks, has dragged her into court on the basis of something she said about him in a tweet, and in a Ted talk.
