Celebrity screwing

Lawyerly article by Carl Gardner in CiF argues that "Exposing celebrities' sex lives is not in the public interest", because, he says, it encourages "the unbalanced tabloid culture we've had for too long."

Hmm. Not a word about the fact that celebrities and celebrity wannabes encourage tabloid intrusion most of the time to keep their names in the public eye. Does the name "Max Clifford" ring a bell?

I confess that I find the red tops hard to stomach, but they are not published for folks like me. What really concerns me is that, for example, the gargoyle Andrew Marr was able to obtain a "superinjunction" to prevent not only the publication of the fact that he was cheating on his New Statesman and Guardian journopuke wife with some other lefty slag, but also any mention of the fact that an injunction had been issued in his favour.

Now Marr is the man who probably did more than any other to turn the BBC into an arm of the New Labour propaganda machine, running anti-Tory smear campaigns and all-but fellating Blair until the Iraq War. If that does not make him a public figure, what does?

Politics is show business for ugly people. Any legislation to protect the "privacy" of tabloid-courting celebs will be designed primarily to permit law-makers to pick and choose only the kind of publicity that suits them.

I think the game is already far too heavily loaded in their favour. If they want a private life, they should not seek public office.