Police Arresting Critics of the Monarchy but Not ‘Prince’ Andrew Tells Us All We Need to Know

Will Black
4 min readSep 12, 2022
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…about the state of the UK. Some would say we are rapidly sliding towards right-wing nationalist authoritarianism — others would say we are already there.

One of the last significant things the queen did was give her son several million pounds to BUY his way out of standing in court — where he would have either likely perjured or incriminated himself. He was first accused some years ago of repeatedly abusing a trafficked victim of an ‘elite’ paedophile ring, run by his friends Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. A victim of the ring, Virginia Giuffre, last year commenced civil proceedings against ‘Prince’ Andrew, accusing him of repeatedly sexually assaulting her and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

At least one of the incidents the trial would have focused on took place in the UK, when the victim was seventeen. Although sixteen is the general age of consent in the UK, the law is quite different in cases where the victim is trafficked, where a power relationship is present or where the victim was coerced into acting as a ‘prostitute’. There are no 16 and 17-year-old prostitutes in the UK — they are victims of sexual abuse and rape.

In recent years, despite their access to vast fortunes, the law finally caught up with…

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Will Black

Will is an anthropologist, journalist and former clinician. He is the author or Veneer of Civilisation, Psychopathic Cultures and Beyond the End of the World