John Whittingdale (centre). Credit: John Stillwell / PA Archive
I am all in favour of good investigative journalism. Why so many newspapers have passed up the opportunity to expose John Whittingdale’s private life is something of a mystery, given their past behaviour – perhaps Hacked Off should be cheering such restraint! But the suppositions in James Cusick’s article are at times so off-key that one can only conclude it is part of a different tradition of journalism – innuendo – rather than anything solidly based. Let me run through the two dozen errors in his piece.
How could Whittingdale be open to blackmail when he was open about his connection with Olivia King and half of Fleet Street knew about it?
