Two days ago, we wrote about the dramatic resignation of The Telegraph’s chief political commentator, Peter Oborne, who quit accusing the newspaper of a “fraud on its readers” over its coverage, or rather lack thereof, of the HSBC money-laundering and tax evasion scandals. In a blistering attack on the paper’s management and owners, the Barclays brothers, Sir David and Sir Frederick, Oborne claimed the paper deliberately suppressed stories about the banking group in order to keep its valuable advertising account.