I mean, honestly, if this was happening where I live, I might well respond by withdrawing from the news, too. It's really fairly stunning. I live in Ireland, a

I mean, honestly, if this was happening where I live, I might well respond by withdrawing from the news, too. It's really fairly stunning. I live in Ireland, and when I was a kid, the Taoiseach (PM), Charlie Haughey, who at the time was paid what would now be worth maybe 100k per year, mysteriously had his own island (turned out he was taking millions in corrupt payments, because of course). Over the next couple of decades, Ireland largely cleaned up the corruption, though Haughey himself largely escaped justice while he was alive (he spent much of his last decade in front of tribunals but kicked the bucket before they ended), suffering a sort of damnatio memoriae instead. I'd always kind of thought of Haughey as the absolute epitome of modern developed world corruption, just comically blatant. Anyway, looks like this lot very much have him beat.