Digested week: Labour politicians’ loose talk part of longstanding tradition | Emma Brockes

Awkward WhatsApp revelations, binned bitcoin, musical heart, Godfather nostalgia and the happy over-50s
Career death via “offensive WhatsApp group” is a modern iteration of a longstanding tradition of public figures being felled by loose talk. Where once it was Jane Austen being busted – albeit posthumously – for making bitchy remarks in a letter about her neighbour’s miscarriage, now we enjoy the spectacle of two Labour MPs and 11 Labour councillors being suspended for comments made in the WhatsApp group Trigger Me Timbers.
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