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Matthew Parris

Is there a moral difference between an NDA and blackmail?

10 November 2018

9:00 AM

10 November 2018

9:00 AM

Reader, may I call you John? Now imagine, John, that you are my employer and I know (or claim) that you made an inappropriate sexual advance towards me in the workplace. So I approach you. ‘John,’ I say, ‘you groped me in the lift. Give me £5,000 or I’ll make this public.

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