As the mainstream media insist on talking about phone hacking, can I mention the death of Princess Diana?

The mainstream media is - again - dominated by talk of phone hacking.

So, here's the thoughts that are drifting through my mind on the subject.

You and I might not have the technical knowledge or know-how to have a clue about phone hacking or how it might be achieved.

However, if at the time of Tony Blair's presence in Downing Street (May 1997 to June 2007) it was or may have been possible for journalists on Fleet Street to hack into the phones of Prime Ministers, cabinet ministers, celebrities and royalty...

...then surely, on the date of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales and the days running up to it...

Then it would be perfectly obvious that people who saw her as a threat over her campaign to eradicate anti-personnel landmines (or for any other reason); these people would surely have been perfectly capable of hacking into her phones and those of her small cortege and know exactly where she was going to be and when.

I know, as fact, that Diana was always on the telephone. We know about 'Squidgygate' so the fact that her telephones were hacked into once and her conversations re-transmitted in order to do her reputation damage is no revelation.

And if her phones - or those of her companions - were being hacked in the last week of her life...

...it would explain the harassment and pursuit by paparazzi that her group endured after arriving at Le Bourget airport outside Paris on Saturday 30th August 1997...

...and it would explain how most of what later transpired would have been assisted.

Diana knew her phones and communications were being interfered with, bugged and monitored. She complained about it endlessly.

When this became public, her detractors labelled her as 'paranoid'.

Just thought we'd set the record straight for her. She doesn't look so paranoid now, does she?

There is still no explanation for the route taken by driver Henri Paul - a known intelligence service informant, whose blood samples remain - and will always remain - a source of suspicion.

And no... this blogger will never shut up about Diana, our Princess. Not ever.

Now, about those authenticated, handwritten notes she left with people.

'They are planning an 'accident' in my car...'