As we march into a secular age, society is getting oddly moralistic. Certainly, to judge from the extraordinary and sustained controversy over injunctions, the whole idea of the guy with a spotless past getting to throw the first rock is now dead and buried.

And so the mounting storm over privacy law – far from being calmed by the long-awaited publication of the Neuberger report on Friday – rumbled on over the weekend, culminating on Monday, after yet another day of developments, court hearings and outpourings on Twitter, in an MP using Parliamentary privilege to flout a court order.

And what a strange place we have reached where sections of the tabloid press and a bunch of kiss 'n' tell stories have become rallying points for widespread civil disobedience and two attempts by Parliamentarians to use privilege to breach court orders, apparently because they didn't agree with them.