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1. Inactive
   Douglas

   @Douglas

   4:26 PM EDT ⋅ Jul 27, 2015

   How far has the world fallen when a British Lord can’t enjoy his cocaine and hookers without nosy interlopers?

   Oh, and he’s right about Cameron.

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   Douglas

   @Douglas

   4:28 PM EDT ⋅ Jul 27, 2015

   Mike LaRoche:Alternate headline: “Tactless Lord found in Topless Rant”

   Hey, eventually he put on a bra. Give him some credit.

3. Member
   Paul A. Rahe

   @PaulARahe

   4:41 PM EDT ⋅ Jul 27, 2015

   Claire, this is a sign of progress . . . something approaching a British sex scandal in which the politician caught in flagrante delicto is a member of the Labour Party. When I was young, scandals involving the Labour Party were always about money. The Tories, on the other hand, . . . enough said.

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   user_82762

   @JamesGawron

   4:59 PM EDT ⋅ Jul 27, 2015

   Paul A. Rahe:Claire, this is a sign of progress . . . something approaching a British sex scandal in which the politician caught in flagrante delicto is a member of the Labour Party. When I was young, scandals involving the Labour Party were always about money. The Tories, on the other hand, . . . enough said.

   Paul your aren’t suggesting that this Labour Party Lord practiced what he preached?!

   Regards,

   Jim

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   Umbra Fractus

   @UmbraFractus

   5:34 PM EDT ⋅ Jul 27, 2015

   Percival: And if in vino veritas, what is the Latin phrase for “hookers and blow,” and what does that get you?

   “Meretrices cocainumque.”

   I’m reasonably certain the Romans had no knowledge of cocaine and thus no slang term for it.

   [Edit: Fixed a typo.]

6. Inactive
   Umbra Fractus

   @UmbraFractus

   5:44 PM EDT ⋅ Jul 27, 2015

   James Gawron: Lord Sewel may have broken through a barrier.

   No, I’m pretty sure these ladies lost their “barriers” a long time ago.

   (Sorry.)

7. Inactive
   user_7042

   @CaseyTaylor

   6:14 PM EDT ⋅ Jul 27, 2015

   I don’t know how anybody can be down on this guy.  Sixty-nine and still going strong with threesomes and blow.  If he doesn’t get a medal, let’s at least study his constitution for the good of humanity.  He is a boon for the science of gerontology.

8. Member
   Kozak

   @Kozak

   

   6:59 PM EDT ⋅ Jul 27, 2015

   Claire Berlinski, Ed.: The Victorian Era’s euphemisms seem lacking in descriptors for snorting cocaine off a convivial lady’s lady parts, however, while boasting of doing this at the taxpayers’ expense.

   “Powdering hair with a jammiest bits of jam’s strumpet with butter upon bacon on the Kings purse”….

   

9. Moderator
   E. Kent Golding

   @EKentGolding

   2:30 AM EDT ⋅ Jul 28, 2015

   Wouldn’t America be in better condition if the Supreme Court, the Executive Branch, and the Congress spent all their time for the last 20 years on this sort of stuff rather than what they actually did?  I would even be OK with it if they did it with our Tax Dollars.    What our government actually did seems more corrupt, harmful and wasteful than this stuff.

10. Member
    drlorentz

    @drlorentz

    

    8:28 AM EDT ⋅ Jul 28, 2015

    E. Kent Golding:Wouldn’t America be in better condition if the Supreme Court, the Executive Branch, and the Congress spent all their time for the last 20 years on this sort of stuff rather than what they actually did? I would even be OK with it if they did it with our Tax Dollars. What our government actually did seems more corrupt, harmful and wasteful than this stuff.

    That would be great. Trouble is, they do both:
    Wilbur Mills
    Bill Clinton
    Anthony Weiner
    Larry Craig
    Kwame Kilpatrick
    and who can forget
    the inimitable Marion Berry.

11. Inactive
    user_235504

    @GabyCharing

    10:23 AM EDT ⋅ Jul 28, 2015

    I doubt if this story has any political significance (unlike Profumo), but it is a huge laugh. The best thing is that no one, beyond the odd political nerd, had even heard of Lord Sewel till the story broke. His name meant nothing to anyone, and we had no idea the House of Lords had a functionary whose job it was to keep peers of the realm on the straight and narrow. Apparently, he used to be an ally of Tony Blair, that is to say, a Labour politician. Fortunately, in the Lords he sat as a cross-bencher, meaning he is the responsibility of all parties and none, and everyone can join in the fun. He has now resigned from the Lords. Watch for the ermine to show up on e-bay. He wins hypocrite of the year award.