It is a reversion to the old tribal idea: this people good, that people bad. It challenges the notion that we are all individuals, responsible for our own behaviour.
The principle behind any settlement for the Sussexes should be simple: one can’t be half in and half out.
At times, says the Education Secretary, the post he holds requires “a bold and vociferous and constant presence”. But “at other times less so”.
Entrepreneur, trader and, ahem, tax evader, the greatest Englishman who ever lived was both hack and genius.