The adage that those who fail to study history are destined to repeat it apparently hasn’t reached the Twittersphere.

British Cabinet minister Brooks Newmark tendered his resignation over the weekend after learning that the Sunday Mirror tabloid was publishing a story about his having been lured by a fake temptress into sending sexually explicit photographs of himself to a male journalist via Twitter.

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