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Power Protects Itself Through Powerlessness

Hardeep Matharu

Does he really think we’ll believe it?

It was the question that sat in our heads as we watched the then Prince Andrew give his fateful interview to Newsnight’s Emily Maitlis in 2019 on his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, months after the sex offender and trafficker was found dead in a New York prison.

Does he really think we’ll believe that he couldn’t have danced with a 17-year-old, Virginia Giuffre, in Tramp nightclub in London because he lost the ability to sweat in the Falklands War?

Peter Mandelson and Palantir

Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel had extensive business dealings with the sex offender – but the same scrutiny is not being applied to the firm’s UK government contracts as that generated by the Mandelson scandal. Nafeez Ahmed reports
Nafeez Ahmed

The Sleep of Reason; The Lightbulb of Brutal Clarity

Like that 2010 exposure of US foreign policy discussions, the Epstein Files shine a light on a global policy-making programme – not one run by elected politicians or the ‘deep state’, but an international set of monied oligarchs enjoying a tax-free, lawless lifestyle in the offshore archipelago of dark money and shadow banking.
Peter Jukes