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OPINION - Paula Vennells, Ghislaine Maxwell and Liz Truss: why is it always women, not men, who take all the blame?

Source: Mark Harrison

Off the top of my head, what “only connects” Ghislaine Maxwell, Liz Truss, Dame Alison Rose, and Paula Vennells? Let’s go through them.

Ghislaine Maxwell stands convicted of procuring teenage girls and is rotting in a US jail for a cool 20 years unless her appeal succeeds. Twenty years.

The average life sentence in the UK for a murderer is 15 to 20 years. Yet consider this: not one of the paedophile many household-name mates, who helped themselves to

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