It isn't often I do this, but I do recommend - in the light of the arrests of Jimmy Tarbuck and Nigel Evans MP - the reading of today's Richard Littlejohn column in the Daily Mail.
His nuanced argument illustrates the dilemma faced by editors, journalists, police, judges and lawyers in deciding whether the identities of arrested people should be published.
Nuanced? Littlejohn? Yes, he is. I have written a lot about the subject previously (notably here and here) and I'm planning to write yet more for tomorrow's London Evening Standard.
Why? Because this topic goes to the heart of the debate about where to draw the line - and the impossibility of drawing such a line - between what should be kept private and what should be made public.
Littlejohn explores just that in a timely column that illustrates a journalistic, and public, conundrum.
