/>How much do we need to know?
Dominating most of the papers today is John Terry and stories of his relationship with another football player’s former girlfriend; his initial gagging order overturned by a judge who believed Terry more concerned with the loss of lucrative sponsorship deals than the invasion of his privacy.
Surely this is strange though, do we really need to justify our right to a private life? Surely the right to privacy is absolute and regardless of our motivations for wanting to maintain that privacy, it should be protected?
It is also being championed as a triumph for the freedom of speech, but is it not a slightly sad reflection on society that we revel in the fact that we get to read about a man cheating on his wife. Is this really the epitome of freedom of speech? Was this really information that we not just needed, but had a right to know?
In answer to your closing question. Yes.
Unless of course you think it is accceptable for a man who is held up as a role model and sporting ambassador to freely copulate with all and sundry?