Time away

The past few days have been spent circumnavigating the M25. Two days in Guildford for work. Hard work but very enjoyable, The hotel is to be commended for having a really good gym. It would have been easy to fritter away time but the gym filled the vacuum. Whilst running on a treadmill I heard the news of Alan Johnson's rsignation and Ed Balls elevation to the post of Shadow Chancellor. Whilst interested I was content with the news that Johnson had resigned for personal reasons. End of as far as I was concerned. Sadly the British media don't work to those rules, and I awoke on Friday morning to the news that the tabloid press had been scuttling around the sewers and revealed the "personal reason." I wonder if they will ever accept that people regardless of their occupation are entitled to privacy. It seems not.