The ultimate act of bastardry in modern politics would be to publish a memoir and leave off the index. This is notoriously the most popular chapter of any non-fiction book as the important and self-important eagerly flick through in search of their own names.
It might therefore have been more appropriate to launch the Zhenhua dossier in a big city law firm, catered with canapes and white wine, instead of leaking it to a media consortium. Had the dossier been for sale at the launch, it would undoubtedly have been an instant bestseller.
