Who likes a whistleblower,grass,nark, snitch etc etc?I guess it depends on which group or organisation is having its secrets exposed.

Prince William is probably happy in having   some light thrown on the intrigue involved in Bashir securing that interview. No doubt he is grateful to the people who helped expose it. Those whistleblowers are good.

On the other hand, Prince William is probably not too happy with Prince Harry & Meghan spilling the beans about their relationship with the 'firm'. Those whistleblowers are bad.

"And the great British public, buying those bloody papers and provoking more and more royal digging, the tabloids' non-stop feeding frenzy on the royals, who simply love the attention anyway..."

Does this include those members of the great British public who watched the Harry & Meghan interview with Oprah?

Personally what I find more important is the cover up by the BBC over the intervening years. That is far worse than the Bashir shenanigans. People lost their jobs as a result of that cover up. We will have to wait and see if we will ever find out the full facts about it. We might even find out how Bashir managed to be employed again by the BBC and then allowed to resign before the Dyson report was published.

Why do people cover up things? Some do so in order to hide their own wrongdoings. But what of those people who were not involved in the original wrongdoing? Why do they continue to cover up? Some might be rewarded to do so. Others do it in order to protect the reputation of the organisation they work for. They might do it for good reasons but it is still wrong to do it. It rarely turns out well in the end.

It was a good article by Marina Hyde in Saturday's Guardian newspaper. Nice to see mention of the Private Eye issue which got banned by W H Smiths.