WORLDVIEW: Bell Pottinger first of many – looking away no defence

I'm from a school which believes in experimenting, but not so much to stop repeating special discoveries. Like steaks at The Grill House in Rosebank. And sayings such as "Hope springs" or "If you thought education was expensive, try ignorance."

My favourite saying during South Africa's period of great tension is from Irish philosopher Edmund Burke who told us "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." What he might have added was when good men (and women) do something, the impossible often happens. And we're living it right now.

London Social A List member James Henderson, owner and CEO of London communications consultancy Bell Pottinger, is the latest on the side of evil to capitulate. After steadfastly defending the Gupta family, his £100,000 a month clients, Henderson has become another former ally who claims he was played. His "full, unequivocal, absolute" apology issued yesterday takes grovelling to a subterranean level.

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