A right royal dick

​I’m not a conspiracy theorist (who is?) but isn’t it a bit of a co-incidence that ‘Prince’ Andrew’s ill-advised interview with Emily Maitliss was aired over the same weekend as Boris Johnson’s former lover told the world how badly she had been let down by our philandering Prime Minister? You can always rely on the royal family to provide a distraction when things are looking dodgy for the natural party of power. A royal wedding, birth, spat, whatever—they know the obsessions of the tabloid mindset. As I say, I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but I would confess to being an ‘unlikely coincidence’ theorist. What will be the outcome of this latest exposé from one of Johnson’s conquests? Nothing, I imagine, after all his name is not Jeremy. The more he looks like a ramshackle, unreliable toff, the more people seem to like him, because he’s a character and there are so few of them about in politics. Apparently, he doesn’t know the names of all his children. There’s something Old Testament about that. As for the errant ‘Prince’ he has nothing to worry about. He can’t be sacked. Perhaps like his younger brother Edward he will be allowed to disappear without trace.