Simon Edge on the Guardian’s dereliction of duty:

If you fail to report on the biggest medical scandal of the century, even though the story is everywhere else, you are part of the cover-up. You are deliberately hiding the story from your readers, who may well treat you as their primary if not only news source.

This is inexcusable at the best of times, but all the more so when those most at risk in this scandal are more likely to read the Guardian than other newspapers. By your silence, you’re telling those vulnerable people there is no scandal.

You’re also effectively telling them that any stories they may hear elsewhere about a supposed scandal aren’t valid – because if they were valid, you’d have reported it, right? In other words, you’re reinforcing the narrative that this is all a culture war motivated by hatred.

This is dereliction of journalistic duty on a gargantuan scale. I can’t think of any parallel that comes close to it. And I can’t think of a greater gap between a newspaper’s self-righteous image of itself and the nasty, shabby reality.