There will, it was made plain last week, always be an England, an England where a gentleman should always know the right thing to doeven when he is a minister of the Crown and lolling naked on a bed with a prostitute or two. Last week one of the Queen's Lords of Appeal, Lord Diplock, made a distinction between right and wrong with a whore exquisitely clear in his report on the national-security aspects of Britain's latest sex scandal.
In May, two ministers of the Conservative governmentEarl Jellicoe, Tory Leader in the House...
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