Slippery Rishi Sunak has serious questions to answer himself about the Post Office scandal as he considers a plan to exonerate victims and is noisily backing the removal of boss Paula Vennells’ CBE.
She should, of course, be stripped of the gong if it isn’t forfeited and all unsafe convictions must be quashed as soon as possible.
But the Prime Minister’s hands are not entirely clean when Tory former Post Office Minister Paul Scully accused the Treasury, with Sunak in charge as Chancellor at the time, of dragging its feet over compensation payments.
The groundswell of public support and sympathy for hundreds of postmasters outrageously treated as criminals is highlighting terrible miscarriages of justice, official stonewalling and political indifference.
Identifying and punishing those who were guilty of creating this nightmare is part of the process of ensuring it never happens again.
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Royal burden
Explosive claims that sex tapes were filmed of Prince Andrew reinforce why King Charles would be mad not to banish his brother from public life for ever.
The truth or otherwise of allegations made by a victim of sordid Jeffrey Epstein’s paedophile business are not the only issue.
That unlocked files and the testimony of sex-trafficked young women are likely to trigger fresh controversies are why the monarch would be wise to exclude the shamed Duke of York from all events in the public eye.
When Andrew is the Royal Family’s Achilles’ heel, any misplaced attempts at rehabilitation would inflict grievous harm on the institution.
The Kaiser grief
Nicknamed The Kaiser, hugely gifted German football great Franz Beckenbauer had an impact on the sport like few others.
His clashes with England were legendary yet the star’s death is also a moment to acknowledge that Beckenbauer impressing British fans so greatly was of huge political significance after the hostility of World War II.
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