Post B2ukOYw1uikjhwplYW by EmmaFaber@spinster.xyz
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 (DIR) Post #B2uahbsuAkbiofofL6 by Flick@spinster.xyz
       2026-02-02T13:12:19.804226Z
       
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       I Don my think even Mandy can come back from this one: leaking emails, now!
       
 (DIR) Post #B2ukOYw1uikjhwplYW by EmmaFaber@spinster.xyz
       2026-02-02T14:39:22.406116Z
       
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       @Flick uh?
       
 (DIR) Post #B2ukOZtwJyfuhkrbw8 by Flick@spinster.xyz
       2026-02-02T15:00:53.866271Z
       
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       @EmmaFaber 
       
 (DIR) Post #B2uqchjkaJFmmmDVlA by HebrideanHecate@spinster.xyz
       2026-02-02T15:32:22.571183Z
       
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       @Flick Ooer Missus and other such like things.
       
 (DIR) Post #B2wSB3ghMy8YAlzg8W by HebrideanHecate@spinster.xyz
       2026-02-03T10:44:05.404404Z
       
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       @Flick https://thecritic.co.uk/peter-mandelson-must-go/Monday’s revelations were gobsmacking in every way. Take the way that the then-secretary of state passed the market-sensitive information to the trader. You might have imagined that these transactions involve untraceable accounts or burner phones or pieces of paper stuffed into envelopes and handed over in underground garages. As it turns out, Mandelson was simply pressing “forward” within seconds of the messages arriving on his BlackBerry and winging them on to Jeffrey Epstein’s Gmail account. I guess that was the one thing that GCHQ didn’t expect. When he left government, Mandelson became even wealthier as a lobbyist. To most of us, the world of lobbying is a mystery. Perhaps you imagined it involved quiet words had over expensive lunches, or astute observation of political trends. Who knew that it really boils down to leaking everything you get your hands on to the richest man you know, and trusting that he’ll come through with cash and the holidays when you’re a bit short?Of course, how was Mandelson to know that Epstein, who seemed so plausible, was a wrong ‘un? Well, one clue was that, at the very moment Mandelson was forwarding this stuff, Epstein WAS IN PRISON. He had pleaded guilty to procuring a minor for prostitution. You don’t need to know much about the US legal system to know that when a millionaire pleads guilty, it’s to the absolute minimum charge. And yet somehow Mandelson persuaded himself that Epstein was actually doing time for stealing bread to feed orphans. Perhaps the money helped. The noble baron is sadly unable to remember exactly how many thousands he received from Epstein, although it seems that the number is quite a lot larger than the appropriate amount for an MP to have received from the financier, which is nothing.