Off to a folk festival tomorrow and with luck I’ll not get stabbed again, though if I do the police in Leicester are wonderful as is the hospital ( Which should be more than enough for the voyeur and hacker Parick Foster to fearlessly expose another unimportant blogger). When I return I’ll update all of the Times links to use a URL shortener to break google linking. In the meantime a few things relating to the whole sorry NightJack affair that I’d hate to go unnoticed. In shock news Tom HarrisMP agrees with Guido that as the Times dislikes anonymous articles so they should cease thier anonymous leader columns, I’m not sure I’m entirely convinced and mr Finkelstein certianly isn’t utterly different a group effort he says. Which I think is possibly a point though I hope that means that the Times will cease to quote all anonymous “sources close to…”, and it’s also worth noting in case of any future legal need that he’d not object to everyone involved in any times leader being exposed.
“Should someone decide that there was a public interest in knowing the precise details of how an individual leader was drafted (similar to the very obvious public interest in knowing the identity of a police officer publishing case details on the web), then they might wish to launch a journalistic investigation into that leader
And should they then print what they found, I wouldn’t object at all.”
Presumably with photograph and all, and I do hope all those involved with such leaders are equally agreeable to such a deal.
Finally via Old Holborn it would seem that Inspector Leviathan Hobbes would quite like to meet those responsible for NightJacks exposure.
For the record if by any strange chance I ever happen to be in the same hostelry as NightJack Inspector Hobbes, Inspector Gadget, PC Bloggs, < ahref="http://coppersblog.blogspot.com/">PC Copperfield or any of our anonymous public service bloggers who let us glimpse inside the establishment, then I owe you a pint.
