These MPs have refused to explain or apologise. They should — because the evil legacy of that era, our lack of intelligent thinking and moral courage, still reverberates. I recovered from my failure of nerve and went on in the Nineties to expose how paedophiles had infiltrated all 12 children’s homes in Islington, north London. They did so thanks to the then far-Left council’s fatally naïve “positive discrimination’ recruitment policy. If a man wanted work with children and claimed to be gay he did not even need experience or references. Numerous independent inquiries later vindicated us.