Sarah Harte: Our Irish-style corruption cannot hold a candle to the rot in Britain

The fallout from the Epstein files has rocked the British establishment, but if that's the sort of political intrigue they like, they can keep it

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor reclining across the laps of five people while Ghislaine Maxwell stands above. File picture

Some of the most stomach-churning images of last week were of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor on all fours, bent over a supine young woman with his hand placed on her flat stomach or looking into a camera with vulpine eyes, reportedly in Epstein’s New York mansion.

In general, the British royals are a bunch of pretty dull non-entities whose principal role is to stand on balconies, waving their limp hands. Presumably in an attempt to improve the gene pool, they have dipped into a puddle of socially aspirational duds who drive around the place in shiny new Land Rovers with their white-toothed kin.