Shocking Revelations! screams
one tabloid headline. Tell me, whose business is this but Nigella Lawson’s and
those close to her? Who else has any right to be shocked? The readers of
tabloid newspapers?
‘Ah, but,’ says a lawyer, ‘she’s an habitual criminal. That makes
it the business of the law.’
OK, I suppose it does if you want to be pedantic, but let’s
speculate a bit. Nigella Lawson is the daughter of a prominent Tory cabinet
minister from the Thatcher era. She was also married to an extremely rich man.
It isn’t unreasonable to assume, therefore, that she moves in exalted circles. So
I wonder where she got this alleged cocaine from, if indeed she did, and I
wonder how many more people moving in exalted circles might have got theirs
from the same place – maybe including a few politicians, tabloid journalists
and obscenely overpaid lawyers? Maybe.
No, I have no proof, but you don’t need proof to entertain reasonable suspicions, or catch the
reeking odour of hypocrisy hanging in the air of exalted circles.
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