BY THE EDITOR Truth does not arrive dressed as a choirboy. It arrives as a ghost at the feast, pale, knowing, and utterly without remorse. In this summer of 2026, that ghost bore the face of Peter Mandelson. For thirty years, the chattering classes have misunderstood him. They called him the Prince of Darkness as a tabloid sneer. They mistook his aesthetic for his essence. … Continue reading The Tipp-Ex Testament
BY SEAN WALSH Starmer’s demise is like the final minute of the spin cycle: never ending. I suppose part of the fun in making political predictions is the post-hoc analysis of “why I was right when I said this would happen and it didn’t”. And knowing you can be serially wrong without any professional consequence. There’s quite a bit of this about at the moment, much of … Continue reading Sunk Cost Fallacy Territory
BY PAUL T HORGAN Ghislaine Maxwell, the Duke and Duchess of York, Peter Mandelson. Ask what all of these people have in common and the answer is obvious. All of them have been substantially negatively affected by the fallout of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. But that is not all. All of them are, or were, British. And yet we are told that Epstein was an American socialite, and … Continue reading The British Fall Guy
