Reports. You can’t live with them and you can’t live without them in this day and age. And two humdingers hit the headlines this week.

While they generated a huge expanse of column inches, they are both interim offerings and could change shape and message before the final drafts come to pass.

It doesn’t take a genius to guess where the organics-are-healthier leak sprung from. While the strength of belief in the factual accuracy of this news has diminished as the week wore on, one fact that does stand up is that millions of consumers have read this conjecture.

I’m sure I’m not alone in hoping that this era’s propensity for knee-jerk policy change does not see the many studies that showed no evidence of organic nutritional superiority overtaken by just one extensive, but hardly exhaustive project.

Faced with report number two, Sir Terry Leahy likened the Competition Commission’s apparent taste for reducing Tesco’s domination to telling leading Premier League goalscorers they can only shoot with their left foot because they score too many goals. Sir Terry, if we want them to stop scoring, we pick them for England.

We can’t get carried away with a report that may or may not side with suppliers, but there is merit in the concept of installing an ombudsman to monitor supermarket-supplier relations. Suppliers can fight their own battles, but an independent arbiter wth teeth would be welcome.