The Polanski story is creating a buzz, as one might expect.

My friend Anne Applebaum has been criticised for not declaring an interest.

And as for Whoopi Goldberg who helpfully gives us a new feministic distinction between 'rape' and 'rape-rape'?!

More here.

This is an easy one.

What Polanski did was grotesque, albeit now a long time ago. He should accept the substance of that fact, behave like a grown-up, and allow himself to be escorted back to the USA to face the music.