Re: Ok...ok...
"I'm going to get ripped apart for this but..."
You are going to, so why continue?
"I don't want to sound like a twat"
Oh, I don't think you're being hard enough on yourself, you're going beyond mere twat-like behaviour. Try reading the article and understand the investigation and analysis done by third parties. Nothing arbitrary about it. One can but hope that you're never in a position to define hiring policy.