The tragedy of Carole Cadwalladr

Carole Cadwalladr has been slapped with a one-million-pound bill following her libel clash with Arron Banks.

Banks said her comments were false and defamatory’ and he sued her.

But the Court of Appeal partially reversed the judgement, arguing her comments had no merit.

And she now has to pay legal costs of around 1.2million.

Carole Cadwalladr’s wrist-slap threatens to personalise the post-Brexit hysteria.

She was unfairly maligned by the irate chattering class; she was used by them.

There was a cruelty to this; this goading of a reporter to obsess over a conspiracy that clearly never existed.

The #FBPE lunacy of which she became unwitting queen was a fight against democracy.