Arrests linked to Epstein fail to touch America’s powerful

“It’s amazing how the arrest of a 66-year-old man in Norfolk has raised the spirits of the entire country,” remarked a reader on the letters page of the Guardian this week. “Perhaps a few more arrests are in order.”

The 66-year-old man was Mr Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, until recently known as Prince Andrew in polite circles and as ‘Randy Andy’ in the British gutter press. He was arrested on February 19 for ‘misconduct in public office’, not for raping an under-age girl called Virginia...