Lord Denning's Security
The Press Council's decision on the Sunday Tintes's publication of a letter from Lord Den- ning to a Cabinet Minister at the time of his famous inquiry is an odd one. Lord Denning was in fact very helpful to the press throughout, too helpful perhaps, for the incident arose through his posing for a photograph with the letter on his desk. Very naturally the Sunday Times had it blown up, publishing its innocuous contents while very properly suppressing its addressee. It is understandable, if a little uncritical, that the rest of the press should have given full pub- licity to the Press Council's dramatic finding that this was a 'breach of faith.' Surely someone could have seen the irony of Lord Denning's statement to the Press Council that he did not realise that 'modern science' enabled photographs to be blown up and read? The shot was in fact taken with an old-fashioned plate camera; the same results could have been achieved with the simplest box Brownie. Any self-respecting agent would have had the photograph taken from a window two blocks away. And Lord Denning was investigating security.
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