I feel very sorry for Singh but he wasn’t careful enough. He had the misfortune to use a word which spelt £££ to the legal profession, and his publication wasn’t vetted as it would have been by a newspaper. That said, the Streisand effect may have meant that a certain organisation saw a large fall in demand for its product. They were insufficiently intelligent simply to drown him in positive PR.
Oliver Wendell Holmes used to be very good at this with his “I am sure the people concerned in this enterprise are totally sincere” and the like. His piece on phrenology is brilliant.
