Six years ago while Paris celebrated France winning the World Cup, I was told that Leslie Buckley, chairman of Independent News and Media (INM), had ordered IT experts to trawl through data in my former employer. It then emerged my name was included in a list of individuals to be looked at. The search of my data and others was so hush-hush, that the other members of INM’s board were kept in the dark.  The story had another skeleton in the cupboard: the secret search was bankrolled by billionaire Denis O’Brien, a 29 per cent shareholder in INM, then a…

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