Everyone is entitled to respect for their private and family life, health and correspondence: which is, of course, the precise Press Complaints Commission instruction to editors via its soon-to-be-strengthened code.

So it's good to see the Times and Sun following it punctiliously in the distressing matter of Wendi, Rupert Murdoch's ex-wife, and her private notes hymning Tony Blair's "piercing blue eyes" and other body parts. Leveson watchers were surely shocked to find the Telegraph, Independent, Mail and Mirror discerning some "public interest" in Ms Deng's breathless adoration.

But wait a moment. The letter itself is over there – in the US, with Vanity Fair – as is most of the Murdoch family past and present: and no UK definitions of privacy work on the other side of the Atlantic. Therefore, if you want to read more hair-raising details, you may just as easily join Gawker.com's 20m monthly unique visitors – a precise example of why privacy in one country is a digital and legal 21st-century idiocy.