So, in the UK, two guys have been arrested in connection with the Epstein scandal: a famously very clever one and a famously very thick one. What unites them? I have a theory about the many, many friends of Jeffrey. And that is that the more desiccated and vulnerable the milieu they hail from, the greater the chance that they may feel the not-very-full force of the law. This may be why the only two arrests we have seen – bar Epstein himself and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell – are from the British monarchy and the upper echelon of establishment British politics. Are either of these institutions in rude and red-toothed health? Erm, answer unnecessary. But if you are one of Jeffrey’s big shots in big tech, or a high roller from high finance – well, as Holly Golightly once noted of the reassuring facade of Tiffany’s, nothing very bad could happen to you there.