The great and bad – and the allegedly bad – are being felled at a rate of knots.

In Norway, Marius Borg Høiby, eldest son of the crown princess, has been found guilty of raping women, domestic violence and drugs offences.

In Spain, the prime minister’s wife, Begona Goméz, has denied any wrongdoing as she faces trial arising from allegations – made by an organisation with far-right links – of embezzlement, influence-peddling and corruption. Now the judge himself has become the subject of disciplinary action after he suggested her police escort could help her flee the country.

In Scotland, Peter Murrell, the post-facto estranged husband of former first minister Nicola Sturgeon, has been jailed for stealing Scottish National Party funds, thereby helping himself to a camper van and a lawn-mowing robot.

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In Israel, prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu is fighting court charges that he took bribes, including cigars, champagne and jewellery, in return for rendering political favours. We await his appearance before the International Criminal Court on an arrest warrant it has issued for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.

And, in Northern Ireland, Jeffrey Donaldson, the most powerful unionist politician until his arrest, is in jail for raping and........

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