Jeffrey Epstein certainly got around. He moved virally, galloping through the cells of the establishment. What was more, he was permitted to. Dead and buried, the financier, convicted paedophile, sex trafficker, eugenics follower, and the man all in power would want to know, continues to ruin reputations, casting doubt on many relationships, and stirring investigations into his correspondents.
Much of this damage is emanating from that noxious font of revelation, despair and disgrace hosted by the US Department of Justice, entitled the Epstein Library. As a result of these 3.5 million files or so, Noam Chomsky, saint of the progressive Left, may well find himself the poorer for his foolish correspondence sneering at “the hysteria that has developed about abuse of women.” Former US President Bill Clinton and his wife and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have agreed to do filmed depositions for the House Committee on Oversight and Governance Reform. And in Britain, Lord Peter Mandelson, immodestly seeing himself as the creator of New Labour, finds himself facing potential criminal investigations in the UK and the European Union.
Mandelson’s case is particularly dire. Here was a person who had already lost his job in the cabinet twice over issues involving matters of money and the wealthy. In 1998, he resigned as trade and industry secretary after obtaining a loan of £373,000 from the Paymaster General, Geoffrey Robinson, to purchase a house. In 2001, he fell foul over a passport application from Indian billionaire Srichand Hinduja who had pledged £1m in sponsorship for the Millenium Dome project when Mandelson was in charge.
Despite a heavily blotted copybook, Mandelson still secured the confidence of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to be appointed ambassador to Washington in anticipation of the second Trump administration. The association between Mandelson and the late Epstein was already known, making the appointment dangerous in the extreme. The publication of certain emails revealing the continuing friendship post-conviction doomed yet another job.
The extent of that association is now becoming even more apparent. Now notorious for being a convicted paedophile, Epstein was receiving updates from Mandelson following the 2010 general election. (Mandelson had been politically revived as business secretary.) Seeing his hold on power slide, Prime Minister Gordon Brown was trying to secure a coalition with the Liberal Democrats. “GB now having ‘secret’ talks with [Lib Dem leader Nick] Clegg in Foreign Office,” Mandelson informs Epstein on May 9. On May 10, he again updates Epstein: “Finally got him to go today.”
Within hours Brown announced that he would be resigning as Labour leader but continuing as prime minister, a precondition demanded by Clegg in holding coalition talks. These came to naught, with Lib Dem leader preferring to share power with the Conservatives of David Cameron. But throughout, the Mandelson-Epstein exchanges take place, with the financier more than happy to offer morsels of wisdom. In one instance, Epstein suggests that the Liberal Democrat-Labour coalition would comprise “15m v 10 million votes.” This is then followed by another suggestion: “[W]hy not let tories govern with minority, no coalition.” In doing so, they would be unable to get “anything done.” Mandelson replies that this was unlikely “cos GB thinks British economy will collapse without [him] at helm.”
Epstein also proffers his view about Brown’s credibility as a continuing prime minister, informed by a certain “jess.” Supporting the Labour leader “will be seen as bad form commercially, he has lost the confidence of the public.” The views of investment bank JP Morgan are also given, they being “very concerned that the pound could be the next currency to falter and big time uncertainty not in your favour.”
Epstein also received what appears to be advanced notice of a 500 billion euro bailout intended to save the euro as the Greek economy was imploding. European finance ministers had rapidly concluded that the bailout was necessary to contain financial contagion in the eurozone. The night prior to the deal’s conclusion, the financier badgers Mandelson: “Sources tell me 500 b euro bailout, almost complete.” The reply: “Sd be announced tonight.” Mandelson promised to call after leaving 10 Downing Street.
The previous year, Mandelson had gleefully informed Epstein about asset sales and tax changes being considered by the Brown government. That conduct, and the broader disposition of Mandelson as business secretary to Epstein, has led the Metropolitan Police to commence an investigation. “Following this release and subsequent media reporting,” Metropolitan Police Commander Ella Marriot stated, “the Met has received a number of reports relating to alleged misconduct in public office. The reports will be reviewed to determine if they meet the criminal threshold for investigation.”
On February 3, Balazs Ujvari, a spokesperson of the European Commission, also revealed interest in investigating potential breaches, considering Mandelson’s time as European Commissioner for Trade. “We have rules in place emanating from the treaty and the code of conduct that commissioners, including former commissioners, have to follow.”
Epstein’s web is looking increasingly, and alarmingly, expansive. Not only did the wily, persuasive man of advice slither his way into the confidence of the governing classes, he invited the easy betrayal of secrets. He was not only a conduit for young flesh and pleasures, but for classified information.
Being the Prince of Darkness, Mandelson has always managed some form of reputational reincarnation. This time, a stake has been taken to him. Let us hope it stays there, lodged for posterity. As for the party he represents, and the daft Prime Minister who made him ambassador to Washington, the die may well have been cast. What the Profumo affair did for the Macmillan government in the early 1960s Mandelson risks doing to Starmer’s in 2026.
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Indeed. At least in the Profumo affair, some happy endings would have been anticipated, but it’s hard to imagine any happy ending for Mandelson,or boofhead Starmer.
Harry, I’m glad you raised the “Profumo affair’, which highlights the fact there is nothing new here. Old, rich and powerful men and young women have always created NEWS.
Epstein’s will come and go and the mass media will honor them with headlines and the gullible public will READ ALL ABOUT IT, nothing ever changes doe it?
Marvellous how when you start digging into the upper echelons of society you find that almost invariably it’s comprised of stinkers of all varieties; pedos, loose-lipped traitorous types, slimy pole-climbers, cheats & frauds & crooks and crims and the whole rat’s nest of undesirables… all so eager to be liked, to be seen as successful, to mix with the in-crowd, rubs shoulders with the gilded & rich & beautiful, get a leg over, get a line up the old snozz, crack a fat for a fourteen year old, laugh about it and feel so chummy and lucky… still got the magic, eh?
In vino veritas, or not, it’s all so tawdry, so cheap, so pathetic, this immature ego-fixated obsession with appearance, with leg-overing, Epstein and his opportunistic & illegal 1,000 engagements with vulnerable girls, Trump with who knows how many he also violated, the conga line of rich, wealthy, privileged, all eager and willing to join the fun, all under the erroneous belief that no consequences will be attached to the fun & games.
If ever a world existed where there were, they would be tossed into jail for decades, or shot, or otherwise dispatched. Sad, really, that that world seems so out of reach.
Wasn’t Mandelson a grey eminence behind Blair and the “New Labour” government back in those times?
I always think of Robin Cook resigning then dying over the weapons of mass destruction farce.
In Batman terms,Mandelson was the Penguin to Blair’s Joker, and both bear a remarkable likeness to the original comic book characters.However, nowhere near as honourable.
Is this a repost from the UK RW MSM eg. The Times or The Torygraph in ‘LondonGrad’, why?
We observe the recent curated and strategic Epstein file drop* highlighting centrist figures (other indie & RW media trying to stitch up Rudd) on the fringes, but ignore actual inner & high-level perps& payments?
*Disturbingly or coincidentally similar to Wikileaks drops vs Dems for Trump, GOP & Russia?
Case in point, related to the latter, are Nigel Farage and Steve Bannon all across Epstein, nada?
US indie Salty Politics of Roginsky & Lautmann (both ethnic Russian, NY’ers I guess)
‘‘In 2014, Steve Bannon opened Breitbart’s London bureau, aligning closely with Nigel Farage, then a populist Member of the European Parliament, and his party, UKIP. Its coverage railed against the EU, NATO, and immigration in language that tracked word-for-word with Moscow’s propaganda.
Farage showed up on RT as a plain-spoken “outsider,” while Breitbart sold Europe’s “decline” to American readers. Russian outlets like RT and Sputnik hammered the same themes, boosting Brexit as a blow to the EU while amplifying U.S. right-wing coverage that cast Clinton as corrupt and Trump as the nationalist alternative.‘
in ‘Active Measures: How the Kremlin Penetrated Fox News and Right-Wing Media’ 1 September 2025