Hypocrisy and morality

Josiah Wedgwood MP and the hotel divorce

A recent note by Sir James Munby, president of the High Court family division from 2013 to 2018, reminds us of the extraordinary changes in public morality over the past century.

“For a man to be divorced for adultery,” he writes, “was socially and politically unacceptable. But, in contrast, it was seemingly not beyond the pale for a public figure to adm…