Save the privacy fights for genuine cases...

Yesterday Max Mosley won his privacy fight against the News of the World who revealed his spanking orgies.

I didn't read the original tales at the time and still haven't read them. I had no idea who Mr Mosley was.

Naturally, the News of the World was annoyed at losing the high profile and its sister paper The Sun has come out in its favour. In its leader column today The Sun bemoans the loss as a blow to freedom. It says, "Mr Justice Eady said our sister paper the News of the World had no right to tell its readers that the internationally famous head of Formula 1, Max Mosley had been at an orgy which the paper sincerely believed had a Nazi theme".

This is stretching matters slightly. The paper has about 3 million sales - I would be willing to bet that 2.99 million of the buyers had never heard of the "internationally famous... Max Mosley".

Mr Mosley is not famous and what he gets up to in private is no one's business but his own - and his wife and children.

And if the orgy had Nazi overtones, so what? If Mr Mosley's father had not been who he was, there would have been no mention of Nazism.