John Kennedy was a political secretary to a member of the Cabinet in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He later served as an equerry and private secretary in the Royal Household.
There’s been speculation for some time, mostly hushed, occasionally not, that the Epstein case has not yet run its course. The settlement reached in Virginia Giuffre’s lawsuit was just that: a settlement, not an exoneration, and certainly not the end of the matter. Questions still hang in the air about who else was involved, who
When the Chancellor declares that it is important Prince Andrew ‘pays his way’, in reference to his living arrangements at Royal Lodge, it is difficult not to wince. For the saving at stake is, by any serious reckoning, paltry – about £367,000 a year in additional income to the Exchequer, by my calculations. Not nothing,
Back-bench MPs are again discussing how to ‘strip’ Prince Andrew of his titles. The frenzy and impulse is public-facing and moral, and while motivations may differ, the method proposed is mostly constitutionally illiterate and impossible. Royal dignities are legal instruments. They are not decorative honours that parliament may remove by political motion. Each exists in
