The Telegraph has gone into bat before for some of these companies but this is really a pretty poor piece. 
It ignores the fact that, reading between the lines, the NAO said it had looked and could not rule out corruption.
It ignores the fact that a Government adviser appears to have lobbied, successfully, for huge payments to be made to Ayanda.
And it ignores the fact that the Ayanda Contract contains clauses that are enormously beneficial, and utterly unique, to Ayanda. Which the Government has refused to explain.
The Government's deliberate, persistent and self-serving attempts to shield itself from proper scrutiny (there is good quality evidence that it has sought to put pressure on Government agencies to give false evidence to the court) leave a very bad taste.
That the Telegraph might seek to use a profound failure of the Tory Government it promoted to attack the State its owners refuse to contribute to through their taxes is unsurprising. But this is journalism that is hugely complacent, at best.
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