Why did a party so assured of its own saintliness keep on resurrecting the scandal-prone ‘Prince of Darkness’? Spiked 03/02/25 To misquote Jeffrey Epstein, ‘Bad Petey’. We already knew from previous releases of the Epstein Files that Peter Mandelson was overly chummy with the world’s most notorious nonce. We’d seen the photos of Mandy in various Ken-like outfits chatting with his ‘best pal’. We’d read his birthday wishes to the dodgy financier who just loved to share his ‘glorious homes… with his friends (yum yum)’. And we knew that he’d urged Epstein to ‘fight for early release’ after his 2008 conviction for procuring a child for prostitution and of soliciting a prostitute. But now we know just how corrupt their relationship was, thanks to the latest dump from the Epstein files. First, we discovered that during the 2000s, Mandelson allegedly received three separate donations of $25,000 from Epstein, plus an extra £10,000 for Mandelson’s future husband, Reinaldo Avila da Silva, to...
Is Andy Burnham a power player? Or just playing at power? lowcstaus opinions blog 03/02/26 British politics is in a constant state of flux. Parties built on the backs of working men transition, seemingly overnight, into ideological playgrounds for an out of touch, gentrified, gender bending elite. Yesterday’s military heroes are hounded through the courts by a government which states that today its ‘highest priority’, is servicing the needs of foreign activists, who encourage their followers to kill white people, police officers, and Jews. Weirdo insurgent parties run by gap toothed boob boosters and economically illiterate communists swoop in from nowhere, to gobble up millions of votes. And the once dependable Conservative Party, burns through useless, clueless Prime Ministers, faster than Bonnie Blue burns through paramours. It’s an ever shifting political landscape, dynamic, distracting, dizzying, and discombobulating. But however confusing things get, there is one rock,...