'Never mind 'slappers' ? superinjunction is the real dirty word

Talk of 'slappers and footballers' should not obscure the fact that superinjunctions are a weapon mainly used by powerful men against womenWhat makes one half of an illicitly copulating couple a "slapper" and the other a "footballer"? The answer for Ian Hislop, the editor of Private Eye, seems to be that while one has a reputation for kicking a ball around to protect, the other is female.There he was, on the Today programme this morning, sounding just as happy and righteous as he does when he's just said something clever and funny on the telly, explaining why it was Andrew Marr's hypocrisy in bringing a superinjunction that defeated his attempts to keep his private life out of the newspapers, when he said: "I mean, usually it's just footballers and slappers."It may be that having

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