Is it that this family clearly have lived through times considered here as privileged. Harrow, Cambridge, champagne and society parties. One second the social pages of the Evening Standard will feature the photographs and celebrate, the next second it all corruption, nepotism, and shame. Seems its what the press want it to be at what time suits them.
Is there really outrage at all this? I don't believe so, its just a story. The Conways were taken care of by their father, and for once the money that usually goes into civil servants pensions, or sending other people's kids abroad into danger without the proper equipment or training, or to politically dreamt up IT Projects doomed to fail, went with all paternal haste to a family in need of a future. It was money that didn't vanish into the great bureaucratic wasteland and vanishing trick that is British Government. In 1 way I kind of applaud that.
Did this man lose millions of peoples benefit details, driver details, military personnel details? No. The state, our great greedy British state, did all those things. He gave his family some money.
What is wrong is the way our country nurtures exclusivity, while playing privilege for all to our faces, an oxymoron which the public mostly seems to swallow without chewing.
Perhaps the Standard is the most appropriate double edged sword of a name for a paper in this fishbowl.
