Enoch Powell famously pronounced that all political careers end in failure. These days we need to modify his aphorism: All political careers end in failure — followed by extraordinary acts of shamelessness. Britain is currently chock-a-block with failed ex-politicians telling us how to fix everything that is wrong with the country that they mysteriously failed to fix when they were in power.

Liz Truss almost wrecked the British economy in her 49 days as prime minister, and is now working on a book, Ten Years to Save the West, to be published in April next year. Margaret Thatcher was initially reluctant to join the international speaker circuit following her 10 revolutionary years in power. But the shortest-serving politician in British history recently pocketed some £90,000 ($112,230) for a five-day trip to Taiwan during which she delivered a speech about the importance of standing up to Chinese aggression.

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We Live in an Age of Political Shamelessness