Still not H.A.PPI

Frankly, I do not give a super-injunction which Premier League footballer has been playing away from home with which reality TV star, but I am still incensed about PPI, even though it seems to have conveniently disappeared as an important story.

It is convenient for the banks because, despite defrauding the public to the tune of something like £9bn, there is no more fuss about it. Instead, no-mark MPs are using their parliamentary privileges to grumble about celebrities getting super-injunctions. If those MPs had been bright enough, last year they would have tried to use super-injunctions to ban discussion about their expenses. RBS’s Fred Goodwin used a super-injunction to cover up an alleged affair with a colleague. But the real issue remains how he managed to preside over a company that needed bailing out by us. That is a s...