But this audience was dwarfed by the 13m who tuned in this week to see Dominique Strauss-Kahn, once the Socialist front-runner, confess to his “moral failing” in a New York hotel room in May.

但是这与本周观看卡恩负罪人数相比，则是小巫见大巫了。多米尼克?斯特劳斯?卡恩一度是社会党的领跑者，本周他承认了五月在纽约酒店房间里的“道德过失”。