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From Lord Profumo’s affair in the Swinging Sixties with a teenaged go-go girl to Bill Clinton’s seminal artwork on Monica Lewinsky’s dress, politicians and sex scandals seem to go hand in hand.

Nowadays of course, politicians have smartphones and social media at their disposal which hails a whole new means of conducting scandalous affairs but also many more ways to get caught. See Exhibit A: disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner who has been at the centre of several sexting scandals since 2011.

It’s unfortunate enough that his surname sounds like a penis synonym, but doubly unfortunate that the politician was so un-savvy with social media that he accidentally posted an explicit photo of himself on his Twitter account and sexted under the pseudonym ‘Carlos Danger’. Perfect tabloid fodder, if there ever was.

His former chief of staff Josh Kriegman teams with filmmaker Elyse Steinberg to chronicle the politician’s downfall, attempted comeback as a New York City mayoral candidate and subsequent second undoing when further sexting scandals emerged in their documentary Weiner – a riveting, fly on the wall look at a man on the road to ruination.