Every journalist has been there: you’re at a dinner party, you meet someone for the first time, they ask you what you do and when you tell them, it’s all “Ha ha ha, a reporter? I’d better watch what I say. This is all off the record!”
The secrets of Derek from accounts will remain secret, of course, unless perhaps, he has made the mistake of having a tête-à-tête with Isabel Oakeshott. If what he has told her is newsworthy, he may well be toast.
