Don’t repeat mistakes here in Paris kneejerk

By Brian Feeney (for Irish News)

‘Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?’ Who will guard the guards themselves? It’s a question which first appears in Juvenal’s Satires in the context of marital fidelity. The advice is to bolt the door on the woman and keep her in but then the question arises, how do you trust her guards? What if she seduces them and they take advantage of their position?

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