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In Defense of Prince Andrew

In Defense of Prince Andrew: The Man Everyone Has Already Convicted Without a Jury, a Judge, or Apparently a Functioning Memory By “An Observer of Unfashionable Opinions and Royal Weather Patterns” There is something deeply comforting about a national villain. It simplifies things beautifully. You take a complicated human being, sand down every inconvenient contradiction, buff the rough edges into something shiny and damning, and present him to the public…

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Age of Consent in the UK

Age of Consent in the UK: The Legal Reality Nobody Wants to Talk About It’s 16. It’s in the Statute Books. And the Irony Has Never Been More Delicious. Alright. Let’s talk about irony in the Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor case. Not scandal. Not personalities. Just pure, structural, legislative irony. Because here’s the thing that makes people blink twice: The age of consent in the United Kingdom is 16.And in much of…