Transgressive But Stupid.

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These essays will always be free, but you can continue to support my work by liking and commenting, and most of all by passing the essays on to others, and passing the links to other sites that you frequent. If you would like to take out a paid subscription I won’t stand in your way, (I’d be very honoured in fact) but I can’t promise you anything in return except a warm feeling of virtue. A special thank-you to those who have taken out paid subscriptions recently.I have also set up a Buy Me A Coffee page, which you can find here.☕️ Thanks to all of those who have recently contributed.And as always, thanks to others who tirelessly supply translation in their languages. Maria José Tormo is posting Spanish translations on her site here, and Marco Zeloni is also posting Italian translations on a site here, and Italia e il Mondo is posting them here. I am always grateful to those who post occasional translations and summaries into other languages just as long as you credit the original and let me know. And now:**************************************In the summer of 1963, when Britain was just learning to live with the Beatles, and the first tentative signs of the social and political revolutions of the decade were becoming apparent, the country was convulsed by the so-called Profumo Affair. The story of that scandal is long, complicated and on the whole rather unedifying, but if you are feeling interested and sufficiently robust the Wikipedia entry does a decent job of trying to bring it all together. Its wider importance is that it helped to bring down the Conservative governmen…