From right or left, UAE ownership of the Telegraph should be unacceptable | Nils Pratley

To state the obvious, the media is more important to free speech and public debate than a football club or a nuclear power station There is a tendency in some leftish quarters to quietly enjoy the agonies of the Telegraph and the Spectator as they contemplate the possibility of being owned by a fund controlled by the United Arab Emirates. It's a bit rich, this line of thinking goes, for the titles - and others with hopes of bagging the loose assets - to be fussy about ownership or the operation ...