Judge and Jury: It takes two to tangle the web of spin coming out of No 10 - Critics of the world of spin doctoring who have predicted the death of spin in the wake of last week’s Whelan leak are jumping the gun, says Jon Aarons, managing director

Most PR Week readers are familiar with the tradition of shooting the messenger. But there can be few practitioners of our art who have been rained upon by more assassins than the Chancellor’s press adviser Charlie Whelan. With Tarantino-like subtlety, he has been gleefully pumped with hot metal from all directions.