Sunday, 4 October 2009

Am I my nephew's keeper?

What is it about public life that makes the holder of public office somehow responsible for the failings of all other family members?

In December of last year I asked this very question about a Conservative politician that I didn't much care for.

Now I wince at the attacks on Baroness Scotland, a Black woman who has scaled the dizzy heights. She seems to be "fair game" at the moment.

Today's News of the World digs out a sad story about her jailbird nephew. So what? My Dad was in prison. Does that make me any less a Methodist preacher?

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