Show & tell: ITV's new workplace relationship rules

WHY, you ask yourself, would anyone want to work for ITV? The company has finally responded to criticism about its blind-eye policy to Phillip Schofield’s relationship with a much younger employee by getting all totalitarian.

- Melanie McDonagh

It is to oblige its employees to disclose their relationships with other members of staff, not just familial, marital or quasi marital, but “anyone involved in a sexual, romantic or close relationship or friendship (whether short or longer term)”. It includes relationships that started prior to employment at ITV.

ITV has already sent round a Google form questionnaire to staff, requiring full disclosure. Look, I go to confession in church every so often; it’s light-touch and non-invasive by comparison.