There is a diabolically delicious stench of hypocrisy about the British press. I speak as one who is as guilty of causing a stink as the next circulation chaser.

WASN'T I the editor best remembered — if remembered at all — for running the Princess in the gym pictures in the Daily Mirror? Indeed I was.

DIDN'T the Princess of Wales issue a writ against me over their publication, thus providing my Mirror with yet more self-serving headlines to boost circulation? Guilty as charged, m'lud.