Transparency is an obligation - Secrecy is sure to stir suspicion

There are few things as patronising, as undermining in a we’re-all-in-this-together democracy as being told that citizens may not know how public funds are spent.

When any such case involves international tax, unknown legal professionals earning unknown fees in a setting spiced by a culture of secrecy and deference the affront moves from patronising to the unacceptable and provokes justified suspicion.