After years of publishing saucily posed shots of semi-naked women with big mammaries and small brains, those wacky guys at the Sun just can’t understand that not every woman wants to be a Page 3 girl.

Nor can they tell the difference between an actress and glamour model – to them they’re just good-looking women with tits, and if the actresses won’t come in voluntarily, they feel it’s their duty to get them there anyway for their reader’s delectation.

Last year Sienna Miller took £37,500 from the Sun and the News of the World for publishing shots sold to them by renegade photographer, Warren Richardson. Sienna is an actress who accepts that from time to time, a movie part genuinely requires her to disrobe, but quite reasonably, she will only do it on a “closed” set, where no-one outside the production is allowed.

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Max Mosley is suing the Screws for invading his privacy and fabricating a ‘Nazi’ element to his sexual activities. With their brazen disregard for public standards, they released their secretly filmed tape of events – which bore not a lot of resemblance to the story in the paper – on their pornographic “family” website.

Tom Crone, legal boss at the News of the Screws, says that the paper believes a healthy society should respect the public’s right to know “legitimate facts about the behaviour and activities of public figures and leaders.

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Andrew Marr, we read in Private Eye, was in court earlier this year obtaining an injunction to prevent publication of private information about him. Knowing the tendency of his fellow journos to scent blood at this kind of thing, he also obtained an injunction to prevent any reporting of the fact that he’d been in court at all.

Naturally he’s come in for a bit of scathe from the old cynics at the Eye, who recall his pronouncement 11 years ago on the preferability of Parliament making privacy laws, rather then the Judiciary creating it on the hoof.

Few would disagree, but as Marr had no doubt observed, it’s become increasingly evident that Parliament hasn’t the stomach to tackle privacy intrusion.

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It seems that Bernie Ecclestone, short, not very attractive commercial boss of Formula One is seeking yet more ways of filling his already bulging pockets. The opportunity for controlling even more of the F1 circus than he already controls must be inviting and now he’s trying to use FIA president, Max Mosley’s recent predicament in an attempt to distance the FIA from F1 racing. He has told the Jewish Chronicle in an interview today that “some of the people on the boards of large companies who invest in Formula One are Jewish and they might be unhappy with the allegations about Max. They might decide they don’t want to be involved with Formula One anymore because of it. I completely appreciate why people felt offended by the allegations about Max.”

Although, he added, nobody had removed any funds yet.

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