Why is it always women, not men, who take all the flak when things go wrong?

OFF the top of my head, what "only connects" Ghislaine Maxwell, Liz Truss, Alison Rose, and Paula Vennells? Let's go O through them.

- Rachel Johnson

Ghislaine Maxwell stands convicted of procuring teenage girls and is rotting in a US jail for a cool 20 years unless her appeal succeeds. Twenty years.

The average life sentence in the UK for a murderer is 15 to 20 years, yet consider this. Not one of the paedophile Jeffrey Epstein's many household-name mates, who helped themselves to the all-day free buffet of slave girls in "Little St Jeff" (as they called his private island, Little St James) and elsewhere, has suffered any legal sanction save some unsavoury publicity and loss of status.

Liz Truss beat Rishi Sunak in a leadership, cooked up a hot mess of a minibudget, and fell on her sword after only 49 days as PM.

Alison Rose was the first woman to lead a major UK lender - ironically after leading a government report into the low level of women in top jobs-but resigned as CEO of NatWest, where she'd started as a trainee. She confessed to a "serious error of judgment" when it came to that snarky effort by NatWest/Coutts to debank Nigel Farage, the board then scrapped a planned schedule of payouts to the former boss of £7.6 million (!) but she so far remains a Dame as per the 2023 birthday honours.