Sunday 9th November 2008

The fallout from the Max Mosley libel case continued with Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre claiming the “arrogant and amoral” judgments of Mr Justice Eady were “inexorably and insidiously” imposing a privacy law on the British press. Dacre said in the case brought by Mosley against the News of the World, Eady “effectively ruled that it was perfectly acceptable for the multi-millionaire head of a multi-billion sport that is followed by countless young people to pay five women £2500 to take part in acts of unimaginable sexual depravity with him. The judge found for Mosley because he had not engaged in a ‘sick Nazi orgy’ as the News of the World contested, though for the life of me that seems an almost surreally pedantic logic as some of the participants were dressed in military-style uniform.”