I know journalist Darragh MacIntyre personally. He, like many of my former colleagues (and myself) in BBC Current Affairs, believes absolutely in telling stories and in taking the time to do so carefully and with integrity. All that translates into long days, long nights, countless telephone calls and scores of emails. It’s about revising and reshaping, editing and re-editing and then spending hours checking every word in the script to see that it reflects fairly on what might have started out as a single scrap of information or a rushed conversation with an anxious source, worried for their job –…

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