Crims

Mildly annoyed to find that the Guardian is publishing pieces by one convicted but recently released criminal and that the DT is publishing interviews with another, the former wife of the first.

Now it is one thing for political criminals - say people who cut fences at Greenham Common - to boast about their experiences mucking it in with the lower classes - when they are released, but it is quite different for common or garden criminals from the upper classes. They should keep their heads down, their mouths shut and do good works, following the example set by John Profumo.

Although, I should add in fairness, that for a senior politician to share a mistress with a Russian diplomat, perhaps spy, at the height of the cold war, was perhaps a tad more serious than fiddling your license points. But that does not materially affect the argument: both incidents involved public people lying to their public.