Laundering

As Emma Barnett hectored the Archbishop of York about whether or not child abuse was still going on in the Church of England, he ought to have asked whether or not it was still going on in the BBC. He should then have moved on to how Barnett's expensive education was paid for, since the Police "found emails between Mr Barnett and his daughter Emma, talking about his "whores"" in the course of their investigation that led to the 2010 convictions of Barnett's father for operating brothels and of her mother for the associated money laundering.

Barnett thought that the presence of bishops in the House of Lords meant that they "controlled those in our community and the Police", but in fact the case of John Smyth was referred to those latter in 2013. Presumably, it was passed on to the Crown Prosecution Service. If no action was taken, then at least the ultimate responsibility for that lay with the Director of Public Prosecutions. And unless that decision was made after 1 November, then the DPP in 2013 was Keir Starmer. Of course, that brings us back to the most infamous such case at the BBC.