associations, bisociations, coincidences....(2)

Well now, here's a thing.

SATURDAY

A new friend was enjoined by her neighbour and mentor bravely to employ the electric telephone that she might be assisted in her search for the solution to an anagram in a crossword that had been baffling her for a week, and she communicated with one.  The solution to the anagram - of CHOP IT RYE - one instantly offered (well five seconds + instantly) as HYPOCRITE.  Well, one does that sort of thing, crosswording and such,  to supplement one's pension, doesn't one?  One knows one does.

SUNDAY

It started with that most lustrous star in the firmament of the Fourth Estate, the excellent Sunday Express (and I mean that most sincerely), which broke the story that a certain Home Secretary (can't name her, but she could be an anagram of "Hi! I'm just a QC" - or, of course, not) might or might not have been using public money (ie yours and mine) to fund the watching in her household of, um, let us say films of a slightly azure hue.

Well, apart from the use of public money to fund it, I have no particular objection to people watching mucky movies if they want to.  One man's meat is another man's fish (as they say in France.)

But the greater obscenity was the autonomic reaction of the State machine (ie the House of Spin, aka 10 Downing Street)  - "There must be a Tory mole in the Home Office."

Excuse me?  Dear No 10 : yours is the same government which gave legal protection to whistleblowers.  In the interests solely of good and precise English, you understand, would you please explain to me what you think is the difference between a whistleblower and a mole? I really really really would like to know.