It seems we can’t go one week without hearing about Jeffrey Epstein.
Just yesterday, as per Channel 4 news, the British ambassador to the United States, Lord Peter Mandelson, was sacked.
Frankly ridiculous details emerged of the extent of his association with Jeffrey Epstein.
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A lot more serious, though, is the complete lack of judgment displayed by Sir Keir Starmer in appointing him – despite warnings, esp. from Lord Glasman (Daily Mail, Sept 2025):
The senior Labour peer Maurice Glasman privately warned Keir Starmer’s chief of staff Morgan McSweeney against the appointment in January, describing Lord Mandelson as ‘the wrong man at the wrong time in the wrong place’.
One Whitehall source last night claimed senior figures in the Foreign Office had also ‘advised against the appointment’ of a politician who was twice forced to resign from Cabinet over previous scandals.
That article went on to explain that there was:
A Secret memo in which Lord Mandelson urged then-prime minister Sir Tony Blair to meet Jeffrey Epstein has been kept under wraps, it is claimed.
The note, believed to have been written in May 2002 supposedly advised Sir Tony that a meeting would be ‘safe’ and useful given Epstein’s network of business contacts. Aides passed it to the prime minister. It is not known if a meeting took place.
The document and a civil service summary were due to be released this year by the National Archives. However, The Times reported, an exemption was applied on the grounds that disclosure could harm UK international relations, particularly with the US.
Yikes. Tony Blair now.
It's never ending.
ReplyDeleteThe whole problem is that it is all tittle-tattle, the world burns while we discuss a low life courtier at the court of government. All I can remember of the man is that he extravagantly spent tax payer's money on some curtains.
ReplyDeleteThe trouble is that he is very good at the kind of furtive dealings that an ambassador to the US under Trump could be, if he was not in it for himself as well.
ReplyDeleteIt does seem that Starmer was aware of Mandelson's dubious ties to Epstein when he appointed him but gave him the job anyway. Starmer's political judgment is seriously defective.
ReplyDeleteI don't think the whole Epstein thing is ever going to get any closure as to who and what happened.
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