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> the British tabloid press defense of convicted sex abuser Ghislaine Maxwell. I haven't seen a single article that could reasonably be called a defense of Max
by bidirectional 5y ago
> the British tabloid press defense of convicted sex abuser Ghislaine Maxwell.
I haven't seen a single article that could reasonably be called a defense of Maxwell.
- spamizbad 5y agohttps://www.spectator.co.uk/article/it-s-hard-not-to-pity-ghislaine-maxwell https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/it-s-hard-not-to-pity-gh... > It’s hard not to feel a batsqueak of pity for Ghislaine Maxwell — 500 days and counting in solitary confinement. I intersected briefly with her at Oxford. As a fresher I wandered into Balliol JCR one day in search of its subsidised breakfast granola-and-Nescafé offering and found a shiny glamazon with naughty eyes holding court astride a table, a high-heeled boot resting on my brother Boris’s thigh. She gave me a pitying glance but I did manage to snag an invite to her party in Headington Hill Hall — even though I wasn't in the same college as her and Boris. I have a memory of her father, Bob, coming out in a towelling robe and telling us all to go home. I’m sure fairweather friends would not reveal they went to a Ghislaine Maxwell party: as Barbara Amiel’s brilliant memoir Friends and Enemies proves, you only know who your real chums are when you’re in the gutter.
- bar8uyr 5y agoWritten by Boris Johnson's sister too..
- drcongo 5y agoIn a far-right rag.
- Veen 5y agoRubbish. With the exception of Taki and maybe Young and Liddle, most Spectator writers and editors are moderate middle-of-the-road Cameron-type conservatives—they're basically Blairites.
- drcongo 5y agoAlright, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, the roads, fresh water and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
- Veen 5y agoThis doesn't defend Maxwell or excuse her actions—it expresses pity for somone locked in solitary confinement for 500 days. Reasonable people can have pity for wrongdoers.
- bidirectional 5y agoThe Spectator is definitely not a tabloid, and that's hardly a defense of her actions. It's just Rachel Johnson namedropping in her society column.