Internet apologies

“I am still recovering from calls to resign after a tweet I wrote about Labour’s portly deputy leader Tom Watson, in which I pointed out that the whopping £500,000 given to him by Max Mosley was enough to feed him for ‘nearly a week’. But you know, I was much younger when I wrote it (last week); all I can say is I’ve changed (I haven’t) and have different values (I don’t). With insincere apologies, you see, come insincere emotions. Making people apologise does not make society more honest; it just makes the apologies less so.”

Camilla Long in The Sunday Times