The 1st Estate:
Child abuse rife in the Catholic church in Ireland and beyond
The 2nd Estate:
Lords taking cash in brown envelopes (and largely getting away with it); Prince Andrew's network of dodgy connections; Prince Charles' marital infidelity
The 3rd Estate:
MPs fiddling their expenses on a grand scale
The 4th Estate:
Phone-hacking a widespread practice in the tabloid press
The Police: (neighbouring the Fourth Estate)
Selling stories to the tabloids
The Judiciary: (neighbouring the Fourth Estate)
Supressing the truth by enabling super-injunctions
The City: (neighbouring the Third Estate)
Gambling Other People's Money, then taking public money as a bail-out; speculating at everybody else's expense; creaming off unmerited bonuses regardless of preformance
No wonder the estates are rioting...
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