No matter who you are, no matter how progressive your politics, you have to concede – none of us were perfect at 13.

Just imagine if every stupid, cruel, edgy or brainless thing we said at that age was dragged into daylight and thrown onto the front pages for days on end, then analysed by your enemies.

Because as a teenager most of us are desperate to impress the wrong people, terrified of being at the bottom of whatever invisible hierarchy exists, and capable of saying things that would make present day you want to crawl inside a bin and quietly roll into the sea.

If you’re claiming you’ve never said anything you’d be ashamed of now, I’m sorry, but you’re either lying or you’ve edited your own memory like a dodgy Wikipedia entry.

That’s been in my head a lot this week as further alleg

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