Or look at it like this.

You enjoy going to Hyde Park Corner to listen to people banging on.

You notice that one of the regular speakers there is a fellow in a black mask and cloak, who calls himself the Masked Revealer and shouts loudly about expenses abuses in the FCO. It all seems pretty plausible. Good stirring stuff.

One day you quietly follow him away from Speakers Corner and realise when he takes his mask off down the road that he is none other than Sir Wilfred Waffle, one of the FCO’s top officials.

You drop him a private line to say that you have found out who he is, and politely to warn him that you propose to shout this out next time he speaks at the Corner.

Does anyone seriously think that Sir W W should have a right in law to go to court to stop you going to Speakers Corner and revealing his identity? Or to stop you writing about it on your own blog?

No.

I thought not.

Of course fans of the Masked Revealer will think that you are a jerk for spoiling the fun, and maybe too for stemming the flow of revelations of FCO abuses.

And they may be right.

But freedom includes the right to be a jerk now and again, or in some cases almost permanently.