As a test of misinformation, we have at the moment the supposedly neutral BBC headlining the unsuitability of Fiona Woolf as Head of the Government Child Abuse Enquiry, with some victims depositing a legal challange to her appointment on the grounds that she is not impartial. What the BBC conveniently fails to mention is that Mrs Woolf is currently just coming to the end of her term as Lord Mayor of London, often held to be a political post second only in power to the Prime Minister. Of course she knows all the great and the good, and of course she has been lining up a new job for when her year in office ends in a couple of weeks time. Does knowing Leon Brittain disqualify her, because he is one of the people complained about? Only if it affects her judgement.

But it does show we're in the runup to an election, and neutral reporting has already died.