The point is not that disgraced politicians must be treated as unquotable pariahs forever.

On April 21, 2011, Warner Bros. purchased Fogelman's script for a Tom Cruise film in which the star plays a disgraced politician who returns to his hometown to recover.

Did a final new Nixon emerge in retirement, mellower and wiser than the disgraced politician?

Cities could be easiest, animals could be blues, and the most difficult slopes could be named after disgraced politicians....

They may advise white-collar and celebrity criminals, high-level drug dealers and disgraced politicians.

Mandleson is a disgraced unelected politician who has been forced to resign twice.

Not a great resume - until he discovered talk radio, America's great equal-opportunity refuge, an occupation open to disgraced politicians, confessed criminals and anyone with a name, a voice or a past that draws an audience.

As for the author, who is no relation to the disgraced politician though he has the same surname, writers say he is unlikely to be punished.

Scotland Yard said it was investigating charges that millions of dollars was missing from a campaign to help Kurdish refugees, run by Jeffrey Archer, the millionaire author and disgraced Conservative politician.

But a fourth disgraced politician was spared any repayment on the grounds he is already bankrupt.