It really is shocking.
Prince Andrew chose to evade court proceedings by paying out substantial sums of money. And it appears that it came from QE3 or from someone very close to the institution. To literally cover up abuse of trafficked women. And yet no one is asking for an enquiry? Nothing to see here? I’m appalled by it.
I am also appalled by Rory Stewart’s attitude about this! I always rated him up to now but his misogyny is all too apparent in this debacle.
Saying that we as a collection of nations have more important things to think about than the abuse of women? By his reckoning, I am afraid that will perpetually be the case will it not? When will it ever be a good time to discuss the protection of women and children against male violence I wonder?
Rory is a privileged man who in 2002,
walked for 36 days across northern and central Afghanistan, following an 18 month walk a year or so earlier across Asia, from Turkey to Bangladesh, which included parts of Iran, Pakistan, and the Himalayas!
Did it even enter his head that that sort of adventure could not be undertaken by a women travelling alone and why?
Yes Rory, women’s and children’s safety always comes second to the affairs of men involving war, violence, greed and destruction. Those things will always rate more highly in men’s minds than women’s safety. And that is why, according to Home Office figures, between March 2020- March 2022, 1.8 women a week – or 8 a month – are killed by a current or ex-partner in England and Wales.
The ability to conveniently draw a veil over the sexual abuse of women is also why a divisive, destructive figure like Trump is in power in the USA. Brain the size of a planet and Rory can’t work this out!
And yet Rory took endless trouble to try and reform and make life better for a largely male prison population!
I gather he was tutor to Princes William and Harry and so was unlikely to be objective on this matter! And he’s a friend of the King. And this is how misogyny thrives in modern day Britain unfortunately! I hope he was a little more enlightened when he taught the Princes, but I doubt it!