"Where on earth have I been dismissive of this story?
You bother to post - but all you can be bothered to post is that it is "old news".
The usual inference of the phrase "old news" is that either the article being offered is historical, and therefore of little or no current interest, or that the news being offered is already part of the chat, already well documented, and therefore nothing further to say.
But that is not the case here, is it? We have a senior aide to the PM ( it does not matter which party he belongs to, particularly), resigning his post and then being arrested and charged with having child abuse imagery, including from the sound of it downloading it at work. This happened 2 weeks ago, unyet we hear nothing about it until today, when it fills all the newspaper and media outlets.
That's a big story, well worth linking to and well worth posting about / commenting upon, it seems to me.