The Fourth Estate’s function is any society to hold power to account. In many ways, along with writers and intellectuals, journalists are the canary down the mine. A dozen years ago, when Downfall was published, a colleague remarked that such a work could not have been created by a staffer at a mainstream newspaper. I asked why that was the case, and he said simply that my book on the death of the original Rangers represented “thousands of hours of investigative work”...
