How do you get to wash your dirty linen in The Daily Telegraph?

About one-sixth of the front page of today's Daily Telegraph features a picture of Michelle Young, a woman currently fighting for a piece of her husband's reported £400m fortune. Inside on pages 2 and 3 the same Ms Young takes up almost all the two-page spread telling us of her troubles and her husband's behaviour.

I hold no brief for either party - possibly because the paper does not offer us the other side of the story i.e. that of her husband, property director Scot Young. So much for journalistic balance.

What I want to know is who is this woman that she can command two broadsheet pages in the best-selling national quality daily newspaper in the country. Is she a friend of the Telegraph's owners, the Barclay brothers? Or someone who is a friend of the paper's editor?

I am sure that there is much for her to fight for and that there is plenty happening in this bitter battle - but do we want to know? Do we care?

And it's hard to feel sympathy for someone who tells the paper of how she used to live. The Telegraph reports: Christmas was a modest affair – no customary shopping at Harrods or dining at Le Manoir aux Quatre Saisons. Unlike previous years, there was no new Porsche to join the others in the drive on Christmas morning.

If that's a modest Christmas, then I've been been enjoying them all my life.