Damien

Schofield was an idiot for doing that. He risked displaying the names, there was nothing the Prime Minster could really do with it, and names you got off the internet is not a credible source. It's made worse by the tone Schofield had adopted as if he had caught the Prime Minster out by these names. The PM handled it brilliantly by not looking at the list and calming the situation down, calm and in control. You need a leader to do that and it's nice to see a politician adopt a cautionary tone as opposed to using it for political advantage. It was a reasonable reaction from him.

Newsnight too were pathetic with their news story last week that allowed the false accusation that Lord McAlpine was a child abuser to be made public. Turns out it was a case of mistaken identify and Newsnight didn't bother to check!? The accuser has been said to have retracted the accusation after he saw a picture and thought 'that wasn't him'. No one at the BBC had a picture of him?

This whole situation is out of control. It's insane. We have accusations flying around on national television that people are child abusers and we have daytime TV presenters surfing twitter in their newly adopted role of the paedofinder general. We've gone off the deep end. Brass eye had nothing on this.