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We do not normally question the Gulf monarchies at all, but something about teenage sex trumps all other considerations where our political and media class is concerned. Prince Andrew may have kept some unfortunate company, but if he did have sex with the then Virginia Roberts, and there is no evidence that he did, then not even she suggests that he broke the law, since she claims to have been 17, the age of consent then as now in New York, while that age in Britain was and is 16. If even that would still make Prince Andrew so deplorable, and I quite agree that it would be distasteful, then what is so sympathetic about David Lammy’s constituent, Marcus Fakana, who as an adult had sex with a 17-year-old girl in Dubai, where it was illegal to do so?

No self-respecting spy would cultivate anyone so insignificant as Prince Andrew. When it came to associates of Jeffrey Epstein’s, then the politically important one in Britain has always been Peter Mandelson, whose credentials as Ambassador to the United States President Trump ought therefore to refuse to accept. Yet Mandelson was recently joined in the House of Lords by Harriet Harman, and today Patricia Hewitt has been made a Dame.

I have been pushing the story of Harman, Hewitt and the Paedophile Information Exchange longer than anyone else who was still alive. Everyone knows it. Everyone who was anyone has always known it. But no one cares. They might if these were Conservatives, although they might not. They certainly would if these had been members of what was briefly the Corbyn Coalition. But as it is, they just don’t. The rules are different. The first reference to Harman, Hewitt and PIE on here was on 31 October 2006, and since then there have been scores, possibly hundreds. I have also posted it in numerous other corners of the Internet. This blog started in April 2006, and by then I had already been working on that story for 10 or more years.

Hewitt took over Greville Janner’s seat. Then she passed it on to Liz Kendall, so it is obviously a right-wing Labour fiefdom. Britain is internationally known for the prevalence of kiddy-fiddling, but even within that, the right-wing Labour machine is something else. Having inherited his father’s seat, a man whose proclivities were common knowledge for 70 years handed it on to a PIE lady, who served in Tony Blair’s Cabinet before handing it on to the most overtly right-wing candidate for the Labour Leadership since 1994. Kendall’s support for assisted suicide, though sincere in its desire to reduce spending on sickness and disability benefits by having the State kill off the sick and disabled, is also a useful positioning of herself as an alternative to the hitherto undisputed crown prince, Wes Streeting.

Speaking of crowns and princes, Stephen Fry delivered Channel 4’s “Alternative Christmas Message” last year despite having attended not only the Coronation, but also the King’s wedding. He was the alternative to what, exactly? And now, a K. He has never retracted his statement that, “It’s a great shame and we’re all very sorry that your uncle touched you in that nasty place – you get some of my sympathy – but your self-pity gets none of my sympathy.” When Fry’s novel The Hippopotamus was filmed, then the central character had to be aged up to 16. But he is younger than that in the book. The Liar has never been filmed. Sir Stephen is very much in the line of Sir Jimmy Savile and his close protector, Sir Keir Starmer.