No Walpole,no Churchill: imagine the damage our hyprocrisy mania would acquire done to our historyA divorced MP, now a minister, and once met a woman through a website who turned out to be a dominatrix sex worker. He instantly dropped her. This may interest the public,but is it a matter of “public interest”? Is there a public interest in how the prime minister legally stored his savings before coming to power, or how the chancellor makes his tax-paying efficient? Does the public acquire an “interest” in what all politicians once said, and drank,smoked or snorted, or what they got up to with their lovers or stockbrokers? Related: The lesson of the John Whittingdale affair: there is no perfect Match.com | Peter Bradshaw Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com