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Minister Lashes Out As Scrutiny Over Mandelson Appointment Grows
Steve Reed could not hide his frustration this morning as he was cornered over Keir Starmer’s controversial decision to appoint Peter Mandelson to be US ambassador despite his Jeffrey Epstein links.
New documents from the US Congress released at the weekend revealed Mandelson’s extensive friendship with the late convicted sex offender continued long after Epstein served a prison sentence.
While Starmer already sacked Mandelson over their connection back in September – when the first few Epstein files were released – the new set of files raises further questions about why he was ever hired in the first place.
The prime minister also admitted to MPs on Wednesday that he knew about their friendship when he hired Mandelson to be the British dispatch in Washington in February last year.
Housing, communities and local government secretary Steve Reed was put on the spot over just why the then-Labour peer got the plum job on Thursday morning.
Good Morning Britain presenter, Richard Madeley, asked: “Wasn’t enough already known to comprehensively disbar him from such an important job?”
Reed replied: “It’s easy, isn’t it, with hindsight, when you do know the truth to look back at the time –”
Madeley tried to cut in, but Reed angrily hit back: “You’re asking me questions but you’re not actually letting me answer.
“What’s the point in asking me a question if you won’t let me answer?
“You’re not listening to what I am saying. If I haven’t even answered it, how do you know I’ve misinterpreted [the question]?”
Madeley asked again if the information that was already in the public domain about his Epstein ties was enough to stop Mandelson getting the plum job.
“No, it wasn’t,” Reed said. “I know you’re saying that because you’ve got the benefit of hindsight.
“There was a process that was gone through, Mandelson lied, the process included security forces, nothing additional was thrown up at the time to make it clear that Mandelson was lying and so he was appointed. Everyone regrets that now, of course.
“As soon as the truth came to light with that first release of files from the United States months ago, the prime minister took immediate and dismissive action, phoned him up at 5am in the morning and sacked him on the spot.”
He said further information pushed Starmer to take more action, including speaking to the King to remove Mandelson from the privy council and strip him of his title.
Co-host Susanna Reid cut in: “I am really confused by what you are saying. I know you are confused by our questions. But I am confused by what you are telling us.
“Because the Financial Times reported in 2023 about the relationship between Lord Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein.
“That reporter told Keir Starmer that at a press conference in 2024. You’re saying it was new information. It wasn’t. It was in the public domain and on the record.”
Flustered, Reed replied: “No, what I’m saying Susanna is the vetting process said his relationship with Epstein had ended long ago and had been next to nothing in any case.
“The vetting process did not show that this was a lie.”
Reid cut in again: “Despite the fact it was reported, it was put to Keir Starmer, it was a matter of public record –”
Reed claimed: “Lots of things are reported which aren’t true!”
She continued: ”– Instead of that being a matter of public record, the vetting process was simply to ask Lord Mandelson to ask if that was true and rely on Lord Mandelson to say it wasn’t true?”
“No. That is not what it was,” the minister said. “I just said, didn’t I? I said the security forces were involved in vetting as well and that threw up nothing of additional concern.”
Reid said: “What does that say about our security services and the vetting process?”
“It shows the vetting process was not good enough and that’s one of the things we need to look at,” he said, suggesting that system has been in place since before this Labour government were elected.
He also claimed Starmer took a decision to appoint the new ambassador “without knowing Mandelson was lying”.
“We can’t legislate against liars lying, what you can judge somebody by is what can you do when the liar is exposed,” Reed said.
Mandelson quit the Labour Party on Sunday and stepped down from the House of Lords on Wednesday.
The Metropolitan Police have since launched a criminal investigation over concerns Mandelson passed confidential information onto Epstein when he was a cabinet minister.
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Epstein was a Zionist white supremacist who hated Black people
This article contains graphic details of rape and sexual assault.
The latest tranche of Epstein documents have provided further evidence that he was not only a vile paedophile, he was also an appalling racist. We’ve previously covered Epstein’s sickening fantasies about using the supposedly “superior gene pool” of himself and the children he raped to create a “super-race”.
However, the new files provide further evidence of his eugenicist views. In an email to linguist and political dissident Noam Chomsky, the now-dead former financier suggested that Black people are less intelligent than others:
The test score gap amongst African-Americans is well documented. 20 years of testing. Many countries. James Watson had some of his private views made public and hence his dismissal from society. He told me that after one sentence he became an un-person. Making things better might require accepting some uncomfortable facts. You told me that.
Epstein – racist views and racist friends
James Watson was a Nobel Prize winner alongside Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins, and Rosalind Franklin following their discovery of DNA. He was also a horrible racist. He said:
There’s a difference on the average between blacks and whites in IQ tests. I would say the difference is genetic.
Watson described himself as “gloomy” regarding Africa’s prospects due to his claim that:
…all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours — whereas all the testing says not really.
Epstein appeared to indicate in another email that he was meeting Watson for breakfast. A white supremacist podcaster called Jean-François Gariépy also says Epstein gave him $25,000.
Epstein was of course a major backer of the world’s leading racist endeavour, the genocidal land theft project that is so-called ‘Israel’. He was a likely Mossad spy and has been pictured wearing an Israeli Genocide Forces sweatshirt. He was also a close friend of former ‘Israeli’ prime minister Ehud Barak. It is alleged Barak was the man who Virginia Giuffre alleged raped her “more savagely than anyone had before”.
Former ‘Israeli’ PM bemoans “quality” of African and Arab people
Now, in a newly released audio recording, Barak can be heard in conversation with Epstein. Adding an extra layer of racism to his already racist desire to have new arrivals to ‘Israel’ steal Palestinian land, Barak talks of controlling the “quality” of these aspiring land thieves. He says:
…we can control the quality much more effectively than our ancestors, or the founding fathers of Israel, could deal with the waves. [It] was a kind of salvation wave from North Africa, from the Arabs, from wherever.
They took whatever came, just to save people. Now we can be selective.
Note the use of “whatever”, rather than “whoever”, as if Black and Arab people are just convenient objects to pad out the settler-colony’s demographics. Rather than what he clearly sees as sub-standard material, the Nazi instead wants another “one million Russians”.
A number similar to that came to invade historic Palestine in the immediate aftermath of the Soviet Union’s collapse. Given it’s a conversation with a child rapist, Barak – being the sickening creep he is – inevitably turns the conversation in a smutty direction, saying:
I think that many will prefer it to be Belorussians [who arrive]. Many young, handsome girls will come. Tall, thin.
This is the only moment Epstein can be heard in the recording, letting out a chuckle.
Zionism is a fundamentally racist ideology
Of course, this all makes sense, given Zionism is a fundamentally racist project at its core. It grants one ethnic group exclusive rights to land they have no claim on, as they exterminate the native inhabitants. The racism which Barak espouses has just been an additional stain on top of that underlying bigotry.
Historian Avi Shlaim has recounted his early experiences of racism as an Arab Jew upon his family’s arrival from Iraq. Ethiopian Jews who arrived in the Zionist pseudo-state were sterilised, so they couldn’t outnumber the preferred white population. Arab people in ‘Israel’ are denied the same provision of services as their Jewish counterparts, including access to bomb shelters.
It’s not only racism that the Zionist entity shares with Epstein. It is also a vehicle for mass sexual abuse. Paedophiles have used the apartheid colony as a means of evading justice elsewhere. The most senior figures in the Zionist government have refrained from deporting such individuals.
Palestinian children are routinely sexually assaulted in the brutal prison system run by the terrorists in West Jerusalem. Children are “hit or touched on the genitals”, with 69% being strip searched.
Palestinians have recounted systematic sexual abuse in the ‘Israeli’ system of torture camps. Those kidnapped describe being raped with dogs, iron bars and batons. Tamer Qarmut was kidnapped from Gaza in November 2023. He described his abuse:
He [the guard[ shoved a wooden stick up my anus, left it there for about a minute, and pulled it out. Then he shoved it back in, even harder, and I screamed at the top of my lungs. After a minute, he pulled the stick out again, told me to open my mouth, pushed the stick into my mouth and forced me to lick it.
Knesset members have defended the right to rape kidnapped Palestinians. They even staged a violent protest at a torture centre when it appeared rapists may be held to account for their crimes.
The Zionist entity is effectively Epstein in ‘state’ form. A project of massive racism, violence and sexual abuse, allowed to continue its crimes way beyond the time it should have been held to account.
Featured image via the Canary
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Why Did Justin Bieber Perform At The Grammy Awards In Just Boxers?
Justin Bieber certainly turned heads at the recent Grammy Awards when he performed in nothing but his satin boxers – but it turns out this was actually a subtle marketing opportunity.
During a very stripped-back performance of Yukon on Sunday night, the Canadian star took to the stage in just lavender boxer shorts and socks, debuting a rumoured new tattoo in honour of his wife Hailey in the process.
It now looks like Justin – who was nominated for four gongs at the ceremony – was also using his return to the Grammys stage to market his own fashion brand, Skylrk, as it’s since been pointed out that the brand’s double-blob logo was visible on the boxers, embroidered in crystal patches.

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Justin launched Skylrk in July last year, offering comfort-oriented pieces, including $250 (£185) pleated jeans, $200 (£148) sunglasses and $80 (£60) slides.
Of course, the As Long As You Love Me singer is no stranger to overseeing his own own clothing label – in 2018 he co-launched his former venture, Drew House, before finally pulling out of the brand in April 2025 after months of rumoured in-fighting and conflicts with the co-owner, Ryan Good. Months later, he started Skylrk, and has since been sharing prototypes and designs on his social media pages.
Justin’s decision to wear just his brand’s underwear was apparently one he made right at the last minute.
During a recent interview with Rolling Stone, the Grammys’ executive producer explained that, unlike most artists, Justin hadn’t heavily pre-planned his look days before the performance.
“When we had reached out to him about his creative, he was just like, ‘I’m just going to get on stage and sing’,” producer Ben Winston said.
He also revealed that Justin barely used his allotted time to rehearse and left after around 15 minutes of his 90-minute slot, happy with the results.
“It was all him. It was a career-defining moment for him. It was so different to what we’ve seen over the years,” Winston added.
Justin’s next major performance will be in April, as he headlines Coachella – and we wonder if he’ll debut another piece from the Skylrk line.
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Reform has an Epstein problem
Reform UK and its leader Nigel Farage are no party of the people. Their emerging Epstein links show how their relationships with unaccountable transnational ruling elites let them play politics on easy mode. What has changed is that we’re starting to see more and more receipts.
If Farage’s outfit knows one thing it is money. A privately-educated banker himself, Farage has always played the tweed populist while making money moves behind the scenes. For example, this virulent critic of Muslims and Islam was in the Middle East last week ago courting UAE billionaire’s for donations.
But there is more. Property tycoon billionaire and Reform treasurer Nick Candy has now been revealed as an associate of late child-rapist, Zionist, and fascist Jeffrey Epstein.
Reform have an Epstein problem
As Skwawkbox reported recently, the Epstein files name Candy in relation to Epstein. There was even an email talking about Candy’s property firm selling a London flat for Epstein.
The emails appear to show, among other things, that Epstein was a fan of Candy, that Candy and Epstein appear to have swapped phone numbers through a third party, spoke directly – and that disgraced Labour grandee Peter Mandelson was also in the mix.
You should read the full report here.
A former Tory donor, Candy shifted to Reform UK in 2024 and now serves as their treasurer. He even promised the party a massive sum to support their bid for office. Even far-right tech baron Elon Musk – another Epstein associate – approved of the move.
Candy’s job is to elicit money for the nativist party whose officials have spent the last week dodging questions on Epstein. One even threatened to storm out of a TV interview when pushed on the party’s connections to Epstein.
Needless to say the full extent of Candy’s – and his financial dealings – with Epstein are still hazy. Yet the pair’s apparently rather collegiate relationship tells a story.
Questions to answer
Tax expert and economist Richard Murphy drew out some of the contradictions in the Reform UK/Epstein relationship.
Murphy wrote on 5 February:
In December 2024, Candy announced that he had quit the Conservatives and would “become the treasurer for Reform UK”. He then joined Nigel Farage and Elon Musk at a strategy meeting at Donald Trump’s Florida mansion, the latter two of whom also appear in the Epstein files.
Adding:
The trio’s names all appear in a tranche of three million documents released by the US Department of Justice last Friday
Murphy rightly noted:
Appearing in the Epstein files is not an indication of wrongdoing.
But as he pointed out questions remained. And that no Reform MP seemed to have attended the debate on Epstein and Mandelson on 4 February:
That is true, but questions still need to be asked about this and about why, apparently, no Reform MP thought it appropriate to be in the Commons yesterday. Why could that be?
But what are we to make of it all? Because treating Epstein as an aberration, rather than a product or expression of a system, rather misses the point.
Global transnational elites
Epstein was many things. And by all credible accounts every single one of those things was reprehensible. He was a prolific (and prolifically self-serving) operator in international affairs: connector, deal-maker, and schmoozer. Epstein was one figure in an amoral network of transnational elites, dealing in information and brokering power.
He traded in what he and his vile cohorts considered nothing more than property, be it human (his sex-trafficked victims seem to be regularly sidelined in all this) or inanimate. His own politics were clearly of the furthest right.
Ultimately men like these – and they are overwhelmingly men – want to make a world in their own image. With that in mind organisations like Reform UK – led by people with bottomless reserves of base viciousness, bigotry and ambition – are going to have a profound appeal for powerful, hyper-rich grotesques like Epstein.
The core truth is Reform UK aren’t popular, they’re just connected. They’re the electoral wing of a propertied global cartel. Underneath the pint-swilling, faux-populist trappings they represent an identifiable set of class interests. Those interests, as it happens, are the same values as tech barons, billionaires, bankers and property tycoons, petro-lords and bought-and-paid-for politicians and abusers whose names are all over Epstein’s gruesome files.
Featured image via the Canary
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Piers Corbyn is a liability
Piers Corbyn, brother of Jeremy Corbyn, is officially on the ballot for the Your Party Central Executive Committee (CEC) in elections ending 5 January. This is despite Piers’s links to various conspiracy theories.
A pale imitation of his younger brother
Corbyn passed the ballot with 103 votes as an independent yesterday. Since then, people have raised their concerns:
Piers Corbyn is a climate change denier who has been protesting outside refugee hotels alongside fascists of late. The fact that he’s allowed to be in YourParty, nevermind that he has been endorsed for its CEC by 102 London members, is shocking. https://t.co/jZBIpwk87p
— Adam Ramsay (@AdamRamsay) February 4, 2026
Piers has a long history of controversial beliefs, having been very active in the anti-vax movement, leading to his arrest on several occasions. He didn’t stop there, going on to harass NHS workers, accusing them of murder. He also turned up at a drag story time in Brighton screaming “Your parents were straight!”
To be fair, some of the above is kind of tame compared to the time Piers was arrested on suspicion of inciting arson.
Observers have also clocked Piers holding signs saying ‘Stop the Boats’ outside of migrant hotels:
🇬🇧🚨 PIERS CORBYN, brother of JEREMY CORBYN, has arrived at the Bell MIGRANT Hotel in Epping to offer his support.
“I’m here to support the campaign to close this hotel. The boats should be STOPPED. The government is using this CRISIS to bring in DIGITAL ID. We don’t need… https://t.co/536Yj9lkek pic.twitter.com/O7rqq12SVK
— VoxPopuli (@vpopulimedia) August 8, 2025
Just yesterday, he tweeted this:
AND now:
Zach Polanski the conman.
Fact: Man-Made ClimateChange does Not Exist – Download https://t.co/qXisckHYmJ https://t.co/OsYEcRbTUO pic.twitter.com/xulHiKnylA— Piers Corbyn (@Piers_Corbyn) February 3, 2026
Do you see what we’re getting at here?
Is this really who Your Party wants?
The presence of Piers on the ballot poses a significant question for Your Party members.
Will the membership reject his toxic brand of conspiracy-led politics?
Or, will Piers find a powerful new platform for his controversial views?
It all feels a bit ‘nepo sibling’ to us.
Featured image via Daily Record
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WATCH: Starmer “Sorry” for Appointing Mandelson
Looks like he’s seen a ghost…
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The Mandelson scandal has exploded the myth of McSweeney
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Neva Novaky: Farage’s long career of noise over governance
Neva Novaky is Surrey Area Deputy Chairman and was a candidate in the 2019 General Election.
As a small state, low tax Conservative, I can see why some fellow Conservatives have been tempted by Reform. However, I have no intention of joining them. My reasons are not rooted in tribal loyalty but in judgement, delivery and national interest.
Reform will not deliver low taxes. They claim to be a low-tax party but that is already being tested – and found wanting – in the five councils they control.
Residents of Derbyshire, North Northamptonshire, West Northamptonshire and Leicestershire Council’s, are seeing their council tax increase by the maximum of 5 per cent allowed by law. Kent residents face a 3.99 per cent increase. This is a huge betrayal of the public given they were elected on a promise to cut council taxes, whatever Farage claims.
They are also now backtracking on the £90 billion of tax cuts they promised in their manifesto. In autumn of last year, Nigel Farage said that his party now felt that substantial tax cuts were not realistic.
Reform also announced they are against the two-child cap.
They did not propose a tax cut to support families but defended a government hand out. They put the emphasis on the state giving you back the money you pay them in the first place after taking a cut, rather than allowing you to keep more of your own hard-earned money. This is socialism dressed up as populism.
Then there is Farage’s track record as an elected official for over 20 years – he was a Member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2020 and there was one single issue that he stood for – UK’s departure from the EU. Yet, it was not Farage, the Brexit Party or UKIP that delivered Brexit or even the intellectual arguments in favour of it. We did that as Conservatives in government.
During his 20+ years representing the UK in the European Parliament, he also did not influence EU legislation or arguably do the job he was paid to do. Outside of plenary sessions where he played to the UK media, he did not do the committee work so as to even try and defend the UK’s national interest in the policy-making process. His attendance was notoriously bad. Meanwhile, Conservative MEPs did the job at hand! They were present at votes and negotiations at all levels (committee and plenary) and worked hard to defend our national interest.
He’s had questions around his expenses throughout his time in the European Parliament and they don’t make me confident that Reform would be a safer pair of hands if in charge of the treasury.
During his time as an MEP, Farage and the group he co-chaired faced various spending scandals. From 2004 till 2019, he co-chaired a European Parliament group of MEPs. Farage was personally found to have not respected rules on staff funding and had his salary cut for 10 months to compensate for it.
His political group’s EU wide alliance had to repay their full 2016 grant of €1.1 million.
While Farage’s team in the EU did underline that they were under higher scrutiny on their public spending for politically motivated reasons, this was also the case for Conservatives. The reality is that decisions taken by Farage and under his watch left him and his European grouping vulnerable. Farage is responsible for at least some of those decisions and indirectly responsible for what happened on his watch.
Then of course there is Russia.
Reform’s weak stance on Russia is not in our national interest – amid the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, threatening the freedoms we fought so hard for decades before, it is difficult not to see Reform’s history and stance on Russia through the lens of national security. Last year, a UK court found Nathan Gill guilty of accepting bribes to promote a pro-Russian narrative. Gill was a former MEP in Farage’s party under his leadership and briefly head of Reform in Wales.
Furthermore, Farage’s voting record on Russia speaks volumes. In October 2019 before leaving the EU, while we were supporting European efforts to take stronger action against Russian propaganda, Farage and his MEPs were opposing it.
Farage did make a public statement last year finally criticising Putin, saying he was a “very bad dude”. However, that was after he had once said Putin was the politician he most admired and repeated the Russian propaganda after the invasion of Ukraine that the West was to blame for provoking Putin. Everyone is allowed of course to change their minds, but historical statements speak to Reform’s inability to make sound judgements in the interest of national security.
Reform’s track record and that of Farage demonstrate to me that my political values will not be better fulfilled by them. This is not about tribalism – after all, Winston Churchill changed parties. It is about making sure that a potential trade is a trade up. As Edmund Burke argued, those in public office fail the public when the sacrifice sound judgement for an applause. Reform are good at playing for applause but they fail the test of sound judgement and delivery needed to lead Great Britan.
I am sad to see some Conservatives who were unsuccessful in fulfilling their aspirations in my party join Reform. There may be a lesson for us on how to manage aspiration and treat teamwork as a key skillset needed from those in public office. After all, national interest must come before ego.
Those leaving because they fear Reform would beat them, my advice is, do not make it a self-fulfilling prophecy. With elections three years away, there is everything to fight for.
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Peace campaigners protest arms fair at Birmingham NEC
Peace campaigners have held two days of protest to call attention to a controversial arms fair hosted by Birmingham’s National Exhibition Centre (NEC).
There were no arrests outside the Specialist Defence and Security Convention (SDSC-UK) on 3-4 February. Although two protesters were carried off the site.
Actions by around 60 protesters included a mock drone attack ‘die-in’, street theatre from the Red Rebels, a silent vigil led by Quakers, interfaith prayers and drumming.
Arms fair ‘not welcome’
The Stop SDSC-UK campaign includes Quakers, Campaign Against Arms Trade and others. A spokesperson for the campaign said:
The SDSC-UK isn’t just another exhibition, it’s a showcase for companies that profit from war, human suffering, and corruption.
Weapons sold here end up being used against civilians in conflicts from Yemen to Gaza. This is not welcome in our city.
The SDSC-UK has faced protests in every community it has visited. Campaigners forced previous events out of the Three Counties Showground in 2023 and the Telford International Centre in 2025.
Notorious exhibitors at the arms fair have included:
- Thales, linked to arms used against civilians in West Papua and breaches of sanctions against Russia.
- BAE Systems, whose fighter-bombers have been used in Yemen and whose deals have been tied to massive bribery scandals.
- Qioptiq / Excelitas, providing military optics to regimes known for human rights abuses.
- L3 Harris, whose bomb racks have seen use in conflicts in Turkey, Azerbaijan, Ethiopia, and Libya.
- Elbit Systems, a key part of Israel’s drone fleet involved in attacks condemned as potential genocide in Gaza.
An open letter to Paul Reeve, CEO of the NEC Group, signed by over 400 individuals and 30 organisations including Pax Christi and the Peace Pledge Union. Their Peace Dove mascot delivered it to the NEC on 21 January.
In their letter, the campaigners said hosting the arms fair goes against the NEC’s stated commitment to honest, ethical business.
The UK arms industry alone emits over 1.4m tonnes of carbon dioxide annually. And it has links to nearly half of all international trade corruption cases.
The spokesperson added:
The NEC cannot claim to be a responsible, ethical venue while hosting an event that fuels oppression and destruction around the world.
Campaigners are calling on the NEC to refuse to host the next SDSC-UK.
Featured image via Hugh Warwick / Flickr
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Trump whines about ‘bad publicity’ over ICE murders
As we’ve reported, Donald Trump has been deploying masked goons to terrorise US cities. These anonymous thugs work for the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, and yet the Trump regime is using them to intimidate all Americans – not just those who were born outside the states. This recently saw ICE agents murder Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti.
Now, Trump has offered the most self-pitying response when asked about their murders:
Trump on ICE: I hate even talking about it. 2 people out of tens of thousands and you get bad publicity.
Llamas: But they were Americans who died.
Trump: They don’t talk about that we have small trucks. We have been very tough on the waters.
Llamas: The waters?
Trump: Where… pic.twitter.com/eO8juwpY4v
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) February 5, 2026
Pitiful Trump
To Trump, the great unfairness isn’t that his goons shot an American in the back; it’s that he’s getting bad publicity as a result.
Truly, he’s the least self-aware and most self-centred man to have ever existed. As such, it makes sense he’d end up as the US president. Trump is the embodiment of the past 80 years of the American Empire without any of the pretence.
In other news, Trump has defended Bill Clinton:
Trump: It bothers that they’re going after Bill Clinton. I like Bill Clinton.
Reporter: What do you like about him?
Trump: He got me. He understood me. pic.twitter.com/wNowPvORka
— Acyn (@Acyn) February 5, 2026
If you’re wondering why they’re “going after” Clinton, it’s because – like Trump himself – he features heavily in the Epstein Files. Once again, it’s a case of ‘poor me‘ from Trump, although this time he’s extended his definition of ‘self’ to include the other degenerates who enjoyed Epstein’s company.
It’s obvious Trump isn’t thinking about Epstein’s victims at all. Sadly, he isn’t alone in this, as Maddison Wheeldon wrote for the Canary:
“flawed redactions” of the Epstein Files have made nearly 100 survivors vulnerable, with the women’s lives “turned upside down.” However, the mainstream media circus around the release of the files is conveniently diminishing both the horror and scrutiny of these atrocious crimes, as well as the accountability of the powerful figures responsible for them.
Yet another lawsuit
In this clip, Trump is defending his decision to sue the US Inland Revenue Service:
Trump: Essentially, the lawsuit has been won. I guess I won a lot of money. I’ll give 100% to charity.
Reporter: You’re taking it out of the system.
Trump: No, I’m putting it back into the system. I’m giving it to charity.
Reporter: 38 trillion in debt and we’re taking 10… pic.twitter.com/ylhbRG4Vg1
— Acyn (@Acyn) February 5, 2026
On this topic, AP reported:
In 2024, former IRS contractor Charles Edward Littlejohn, of Washington, D.C. — who worked for Booz Allen Hamilton, a defense and national security tech firm — was sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty to leaking tax information about Trump and others to two news outlets between 2018 and 2020.
The outlets were not named in the charging documents, but the description and time frame align with stories about Trump’s tax returns in The New York Times and reporting about wealthy Americans’ taxes in the nonprofit investigative journalism organization ProPublica. The 2020 New York Times report found Trump paid $750 in federal income tax the year he first entered the White House and no income tax at all some years thanks to reported colossal losses.
Regardless of the precise details, it’s obviously not sustainable to have a country in which the leader is suing his own governmental departments.
ICE
For readers in the UK, it’s worth bearing in mind that both Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch have both spoken about importing ICE-style policing to the UK. These same leaders have also done more than their fair share of sucking up to the US president. As such, we need to ask ourselves: is this pathetic, declining mess of a country really what we want to emulate in the UK?
Featured image via NBC
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Corbyn calls to centre focus on Epstein victims
Jeremy Corbyn has demanded a focus on the victims of Jeffrey Epstein as the scandal surrounding Peter Mandelson grows. Speaking from the Central Lobby on 5 February, Corbyn called for the US authorities to interview Mandelson and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.
Victims of Epstein’s vile network will be scarred forever by the horrific abuse they suffered. It is them we should be thinking about.
pic.twitter.com/EBgrCCUJnC— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) February 5, 2026
Corbyn makes plea
Corbyn rightly emphasised that the political activity around the latest Epstein File releases should not overshadow the woman and girls involved in these sex trafficking rings. Pointing out the tragic case of Virginia Giuffre who sadly died by suicide in April 2025, he continued:
Others are in a desperate situation. They will be scarred forever by the experience of the behaviour of Jeffrey Epstein. It is the victims we should be thinking about.
Corbyn’s suggestion that both Mandelson and Mountbatten-Windsor would only be questioned under voluntary circumstances is worrying. These two perverted predators should be in fucking prison, not being politely asked to consider facing justice.
Unaccountable
These remarks are absolutely right. It’s the women and girls who have had their lives ruined who should be at the forefront of these investigations.
As Maddison Wheeldon wrote for the Canary:
It is time we empathise and choose to empower women and girls, not continue this toxic cycle of even the reveal of abuse not centring the abused.
Featured image via Sky News
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