Taito Phillip Field has been charged with 15 counts of bribery and 25 of attempting to pervert the course of justice. The latter are interesting, and clearly give the police a backup if Field wins his appeal against the High Court granting leave to lay the corruption charges. And if he is convicted on any one of them, he will be forced to resign from Parliament. Of course, if he had even a shred of decency, he would have done that already.