Nasty smell.

Some 80 years ago Parliament acted to restrict the right of the media to publish salacious details of divorce proceedings. In 1969 Parliament made a well-intentioned but half-hearted attempt to get away from the idea of a divorce law based on fault to one based on the purely factual concept of irretrievable breakdown. How sad then to see the McCartneys' dirty linen being so publicly washed. Of course, they are both public figures, and there may therefore be an element of the "there is no such thing as bad publicity" principle involved. Whatever, I find it depressingly unpleasant.