Her adviser should probably not have issued a reminder to the paper, but Miller may feel it is she who is being picked on Share 1 inShare0 Email The culture secretary's housing arrangements have come under scrutiny. Photograph: Neil Hall/Reuters Should Maria Miller's special adviser have reminded – "flagged up" was the verb of choice – the Daily Telegraph that the boss is currently involved in discussions over the new post-Leveson regime for press regulation when the paper started sniffing around her expenses claims over her London home, the one where her parents also live? Probably not in the current inflamed climate, I'd say. Should the Telegraph have made an issue of its hurt feelings in today's edition? Probably not. These things happen. Politicians and their bagmen and women try to bribe (with information) or bully newspapers, the press does the same – as everyone who listened to much of the evidence presented to Lord Justice Leveson in court