For lunch on Monday I had meatballs with Anthony Barnett, openDemocracy's founder. After discussing various other vital matters, he told me that Peter Oborne had resigned from the Telegraph. “Oh, I missed that”, I replied, between bites. “Well, it's not public... yet”.
It's certainly public now. The revelation here on openDemocracy is our biggest scoop in a long time and its implications for journalism couldn't be more profound. It took me instantly back to sixth form, curled up in a corner with Chomsky's explanation of how corporate power has infiltrated the press. At the time I was a little skeptical. As I read an earlier draft of Oborne's resignation statement on my phone early yesterday morning, I chided my naïve teenage self.
