Helen Wood described in last week’s Spectator how she ‘escorted’ a wealthy footballer, Wayne Rooney. He applied for, and got, a super-injunction. So did she, and was refused. What is going on here? The Athenian orator and statesman Demosthenes (384-322 bc) knew.
Helen Wood described in last week’s Spectator how she ‘escorted’ a wealthy footballer, Wayne Rooney.

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