Listen to Melanie Phillips and Jesse Norman discuss Paul Flowers:
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Yet again, one particular question has formed on lips up and down the land. How in heaven’s name could so many people have failed to spot such a spectacular abuse of a public position?
We heard it first in the Jimmy Savile scandal, when the posthumous discovery of half a century of predation left people incredulous that so many had known about but done nothing to stop his serial depravities.
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Melanie Phillips recently published an autobiography, Guardian Angel, through her new publishing venture, emBooks.
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