... not to laugh as the Guardianistas boomerang themselves senseless. Well, I say senseless, as though that were a new thing in Guardianistas, but you get the picture.
As it happens, I’m utterly opposed to the Met’s moves against the Guardian, which are profoundly illiberal, and I hope the Guardian refuses to name its source rather than repeating the Sarah Tisdall debacle of the 1980s. But I am also opposed to the Guardian’s moral rehabilitation of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (one of New Labour’s most authoritarian pieces of legislation) and its insistence that the police use this intolerant, intrusive law to invade the offices of tabloid newspapers and feel the collars of tabloid hacks. The Met’s extension of its investigations to encompass the Guardian isn’t a case of the goodies turning on their fellow goodies – it’s the ugly end result of having foolishly invited the police in the first place to harry and hector and fix the media. Who issued that invitation? The “goodies”. Brendan O'Neill
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