It's the story that won't lie down. Big Brother 'star' Imogen Thomas has been back in court seeking to get the superinjunction stopping her publishing details of her affair with a footballer, amid counter claims of blackmail demands.
She lost. The footballer - whose identity is already known to anyone who wants to know - won. They sound like lovely people.
Meanwhile Lord Stoneham, the Liberal Democrat peer (yes, you know, that Lord Stoneham - er no, me neither) waded into the whole mess naming former Royal Bank of Scotland Chief Executive Fred Goodwin as having taken out a superinjunction to prevent publication of his affair with another high profile banker at the time RBS was collapsing.
The argument used by Lord Stoneham is that Goodwin's affair meant the CEO did not have his mind on his job at the time RBS collapsed and required bailing out with tax payers money.
A very weak arguement in my book. It looks like a case of using Parliamentary privilege to blow a hole in superinjunctions as a whole. Fine. A laudable aim and Lord Stoneham picked a good target. Even if it feels a bit like 'we can't get you for anything else Fred, so let's at least embarrass you in public.' Still there are lawyers all over the radio complaining about it, so Lord Stoneham must have done something right!
Is this what Nick Clegg means by 'muscular liberalism'?
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