Banking inquiry is vital because Anglo tapes are only telling half the story

WE ARE indebted to two types of whistleblowers — the deliberate and the accidental.

Thanks to the deliberate decisions of Edward Snowden, but also to the crass and revolting interventions of David Drumm, and his colleagues, we know a lot of stuff that other people didn’t want us to know.

There is only one thing we can do about Snowden. He has revealed the terrifying ways in which the United States is increasingly seeking to own, and control, the flow of information.