Nigeria, March 5 -- With the ruling classes shown to be fickle, contemptible and unreliable in fulfilling their obligations to society, much of this confirmed by the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files by the United States Department of Justice, politicians really ought to get their act together. If there are threats to their welfare, why not tell the public of such facts? Is it sufficient to merely say that a threat to the safety of a politician manifested only to then build a fortress and moat around it, imprisoned till careful, managed release?

On February 24, the Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese supposedly had what was uniformly described by the press as a "security threat'. The media hacks were at first keen to spread th...