Looking at the recent behaviour of many journalists and MPs, the public should realise us fat-cat lawyers aren’t so bad after all, says Felix
What an exciting summer it has been so far. We have all been gripped by the phone hacking scandal, and we have had resignations, recriminations, and even a good old bit of slapstick before the select committee. One wonders quite how someone was able to sit there quietly all afternoon with a custard pie made out of shaving foam without anyone noticing – perhaps because the pie flinger was not also wearing a red nose, pointy hat, large spotty trousers and comedy shoes, nobody thought it was suspicious.
Anyway, I digress. The tabloids are in the dock and everyone is wondering where it is all going to end. The strange world of backdoors to No 10 and who gets invited to whose sleepover/wedding/birthday party and Boxing Day lunch etc. are all very interesting too. Plainly there seems to be a lot of contact between politicians and the ‘meeja’, a lot of which we don’t – or did not – know about. Rather like the third form turning on the school bully at last, everyone is lin...
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