I’ll let you in on a little secret: I’ve bribed people. I’ve bribed government officials and even elected politicians. I spent most of the 1990s working in the Russian metals trade, something about as corrupt as the more recent Ukrainian energy business, where Hunter Biden was collecting his checks.

One small difference would be that for me, a Brit, bribing foreigners back then was entirely legal. Another would be that back then, I was handing out the bribes, not something anyone’s even thought Hunter Biden was doing.