I remember when this was all fields...

Ah, I remember the good old days, when the BBC and the rest of the Left would dilligently report government leaks as public interest stories.

Oh dear, times have changed. Gee, I remember when if there was a Tory government, the BBC would report leaks as if they were gospel truth. The source was sacrosanct; the leaker a public hero. Who would have thought that with a Labour government in power the BBC would reverse their deeply held belief in the sanctity of leaks?

For the BBC, there's no Clive Ponting any more. Those days are long gone. No, these days there are Enemies of the People, and Damien Green is one of them. I pity the poor bastard who leaked these stories to him, he has the government and the BBC after him.