Political penalties

When it comes to the law, penal sentences of varying periods are prescribed for different offences. When it comes to politics, however, there seems to be no pattern to the period that must pass before sufficient penance is considered to have been done. In the case of Narendra Modi, for whom it is a case of absolution being given without a confession having been made, he has had to wait for 10 years before the UK and US governments decided recently that they would deal with him after all (it wouldn’t do to keep him in the isolation ward if he might conceivably become the prime minister!).

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