And now, almost unbelievably, we have a government here in the UK rocked to its very core, teetering on the edge of possible collapse because of the unconsidered venality at the centre of all this.

It transpires – ha! – that it is not only the supposedly unimportant “little people”, those who are so commonly disregarded, whose lives are put at risk and lost (yes, Virginia Giuffre and countless others) but the careers and livelihoods of some central players. Epstein himself (was it really suicide?). The royal prince, disgraced and disappeared into the Sandringham shadows. The former bit players like his former wife. The others who were up for a bit of anything on offer. Peter Mandelson gone again, for good this time. Then Morgan McSweeney, collateral damage. And yes, Keir Starmer.

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