The investigation, after all, concerns the systematic rape of underage girls. The non-reaction to it says much about our culture and times.
Several Ministers helped to see off the Government’s best hope of avoiding a full-on crisis in the Party – and perhaps of saving Brexit too.
Wanted: a grand bargain with voters, whereby some rises at the top end are traded off for others nearer the bottom.
Jo Johnson is third. Then Greg Hands and Matt Hancock. But those who lead the results may be no less likely to go up than those who trail them.
The Mercers, Tugendhats and Cleverlys get a lot of media coverage. However, most promotions come from the ranks of the toiling Ministers of State.
Britain should call in the Burmese ambassador, suspend its training programme with the Burma Army, and continue to press at the UN.
A Conservative MP has led the way in proposing how London could be rebalanced away from the super-rich and back towards the mass of its citizens.
Namely, Anthea McIntyre – an experienced political hand who, like the Party Chairman, cut her political teeth in the Young Conservatives.
Far from a throwback to the past, the public needs urgently to see that this welcome debate is about equipping us for a post-Brexit future.
While we mark the tragedies in our past, let us also focus on celebrating our current partnership and enduring friendship with India.