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It’s the kind of story involving wealthy elites and claims of global paedophilia that most right-thinking people would have considered a conspiracy theory but with each day it seems there’s more murky details concerning Prince Andrew’s long friendship with the now-dead convicted child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, writes Gary Johnston.

ANALYSIS: Why do we reserve important positions of public trust and power for people who revel in their own dishonesty, wonders novelist and lawyer Miles Hunt.

Lying is the new truth in Scott Morrison’s Australia, writes satirist Kieran Butler.