A prince, an ambassador, senior diplomats, top politicians. All brought down by the Jeffrey Epstein files. And all in Europe, rather than the United States.
The huge trove of Epstein documents released by the U.S. Department of Justice has sent shock waves through Europe’s political, economic and social elites — dominating headlines, ending careers and spurring political and criminal investigations.
Former U.K. Ambassador to Washington Peter Mandelson was fired and could go to prison. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer faces a leadership crisis over the Mandelson appointment. Senior figures have fallen in Norway, Sweden and Slovakia. And, even before the latest batch of files, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, brother of King Charles III, lost his honors, princely title and taxpayer-funded mansion.
I will say, that even en the EU (political zone) the files didn’t do as much as they should have. What they revealed, besides the horrific abuses, is the level of political meddling of a certain side to bring al right leaders in position of power (see the Steve Bannon records on the lists).
Yeah, I notice they’ve only “toppled” centre-right parties though, with far-right parties waiting in the wings.
Is that what we call a fallout these days? A couple of fall guys here and there and a prince who dug his own hole with that moronic BBC interview and only lost his title? Gtfo
I’m not satisfied at all. I expect governments to fall, people to go to proper prison (not resorts like Gislaine), institutions to change.
I expect revelations about the role of all the intelligence agencies involved and subsequent reforms.
Who was JE working for? Say it out loud for people to hear.
Why was he blackmailing all these people?
How many like him are out there right now doing the same thing?
What decisions were made by all these compromised people?
Why isn’t Andrew being tried?
Why is nobody being tried?
Where’s the compensation for the victims?
I didn’t read the article but if it’s supposed to make us feel good that Europe is doing things, well it isn’t.
Europe still has shame and deals with it. The U.S is shameless and closes their eyes.
God money’s not concerned about the sick among the pure
God money, let’s go dancing on the backs of the bruised
God money’s not one to chooseA song written and sung nearly fifty years ago and nothing has changed.
Europe doesn’t like pedophiles and corrupt politicians.
We still have them, of course, but we make a bit more of a show of getting rid of them. In the US it seems they mostly stay where they are until people forget about it. I hope they never forget.
I love that the toppling of the top figure of prince Andrew was… No more free house, now your family has to secretly pay for your living with tax payer money instead of it being out in the open.
This is the theme of almost all of the “toppling”. Mostly they’ve just… resigned. They probably keep all the perks, and then take up a corporate advisor position once there’s less heat.
Headlines like this make it sound like there’s been real impact beyond generating articles about a few of the more public figures. But reading article, it’s really just a few politicians and bureaucrats resigning. Mandelson’s firing was already months ago. The investigation into a former Norwegian PM sounds like that’s as harsh as it’s got so far for politicians this time. And nothing except one law firm board member resigning for private companies?
They’re all getting away with it, and all the victims get is a hundred headlines about Musk being named in the files, and having their lives endangered from the terrible Don-centric redaction.
Resignation is often used in these kinds of cases, because there’s really no framework to fire them, since they didn’t actually violate any of the terms on which they’re hired. They should be tried for the crimes they’ve committed under the jurisdiction of the place where the crime was committed. Not in some random board meeting in a different country.
What happens is that the board says “even if you didn’t violate our terms or any local laws, we don’t see our organization being able to work with someone like you, so we urge you to do what is best for both parts, which is that you resign voluntarily.”
If they don’t, then the board can say “the existence of potential criminal cases against you can harm the reputation of our organization, so now you’re fired.” The outcome is almost the same, but this could create a lot more negative attention to what the company knew about.
Oh yes, I understand how they go about smoothing everything over.
But, given the details we know, don’t you think:
• one corporate resignation,
• one months-prior bureaucrat firing, and,
• one investigation into a former PM,
is pretty far removed from could be considered a proportional fallout?Absolutely, but it isn’t up to their employers to punish them.
Trump, too, has repeatedly faced questions about his ties to Epstein. Neither he nor Clinton has ever been accused of wrongdoing by Epstein’s victims.
Read: the secret service are really doing an amazing job. They are clearly the best most competent agency if they can keep their disgusting reprobate leaders out of the mud. Bill may have been balls deep, but Trump is up to his puffy little eyeballs in this shit. And they’re all just la de da wandering around scot free. Great job USSS!
The Norwegian Royal family is in complete shambles.
The Crown Princess has been implicated in the Epstein files and her son (before being wed into royalty), is currently in a very public trial for rape and sexual misconduct.
Let it burn.
Despite the apparent rise in republican sentiment and the unusual prime ministerial intervention, the dial hasn’t moved on the status of the monarchy among Norway’s wider political class. In a strange coincidence, a vote that takes places every four years in parliament on making Norway a republic was held on Tuesday. Just 26 MPs voted in favour of getting rid of the monarchy, against 141 who voted to keep it. Support was in fact lower than the last time a vote took place, in June 2022, when 35 voted in favour of a republic. The measure requires a two-thirds majority to pass.
Shame people that can do something about it don’t care.
I think the crown prince should be given the same choice as Edward VIII: her or the crown.
Fucking duh! Did you see who my countrymen elected‽
We have a pedo controlled by pedos .
The elites are so fucked up. They really think they are something better than the people.
From my pov the parallels to the kings and Queens of feudalism are just to strong. We need powerful rules to cut down power of individuals not just politicians. We need to trim billionaires, trim their money and their influence.
Well it would help if you stopped calling them “elites”.
The elites rot just like poor people. They just forgot that.
The elites isn’t the main problem. It is that we put narcissistic sociopath in power because of our tendencies to follow the group and vote because of the party we usually vote for instead of looking at the program.
Who do you think influences the masses to vote this way, and who put people like trump in the position to be elected?
Except that they’re not putting anywhere near the amount of effort I’d hope they would need to influence people. Look at how awful Trump is, how openly disgusting he is, and yet them just saying “no that’s fake actually” is enough.
People like these awful things and they want to be “influenced” so they can pretend, amongst themselves mostly, that they were fooled.
Yeah, because they’ve been doing so for decades. Most of what’s happening today would likely not have been accepted 30-40 years ago, but people have been desensitized by constant, subtle and not so subtle influencing.
Surprise: another narcissistic sociopath. Themself in power because if other narcissistic asshole. You can go quite far like that, but will always end up with masses that vote for parties as if they were the local baseball team.
Turns out billionaires are mostly also narcissistic sociopaths. And they control the media where people get there information from. So there is a high probability for people’s actions to be manipulated by those billionaire-censored information. You can not expect everyone to spend there intellect, energy and time to comprehend these systems. The people are not the problem. The problem is the billionaire controlled system. People will change if the system changes.
There are still reliable medias that are free from billionaires. But that suppose to pay for them, because without a billionaire with an agenda to keep them afloat, who will?
Personally, I support multiple of them (after looking into them, of course), even when not aligned with my own world views.
You know what, let’s start a community to list them all. I think this is the best way to work against the billionaire press monopoly.
It’s because Americans don’t give a shit about anything. Europeans actually have the balls to do something if their governments but Americans will just let their government do anything as long as the marvel and Disney slop keeps flowing into their troughs.
“Why isn’t the US government prosecuting the pedophilic billionaire death cult?”
My dude, the US government IS the pedophilic billionaire death cult.
Shame if international agents swarmed America to capture all these pedo billionaires.
It’s a shame that the US population is STILL waiting for someone else to come and fix the quagmire they have gotten themselves into.
And it’s a shame that the rest of the world is waiting for the US population to fix this quagmire. When has a fascist movement ever been taken down from the inside, or been contained just in one country?
Too bad the US pedo government controls the by far strongest army of the world, lots of nukes and the internet
Plenty of them have, for the last century America has just swooped in to install a dictatorship favorable to them anyway if they couldn’t sabotage progress beforehand.
Too bad your nation has embassies in every other nation making our resistance easily dismantled.
yeah, like any good gangster tramp hires nobody that he hasn’t got some leverage over. They’re all covering for each other’s bodies in the closet.
You’re leaving out Israel
If I were a conspiracy theorist I would say that the release of the Files were redacted in such a way to topple political adversaries in Europe. I mean that goal is part the Heritage Project 2025.
They very obviously redacted things like “don’t” in some PDFs I’ve seen. Hmmm. Don’t. Don T. Wonder why that was done.
I’m just waiting for the Michael Scarn - Dwigt case where something like Domald Trumo shows up.
What’s with the constant use of = throughout the emails? What am I missing there?
TLDR
quoted-printable encoding standard used in emails, combined with legacy line-ending conventions and Windows-specific file processing.
https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2026/02/02/whats-up-with-all-those-equals-signs-anyway
So it’s pretty much a %20 situation, whoever decoded it just did a crappy job at it, maybe even intentionally so all the redacted stuff is still actually there? Just that the redactions are on the decoded stuff, and not the encoded files?
I have been following British media a bit and unless I am mistaken, this Mandelson chap ran afoul of his Epstein conduct back in September, which was before the DOJ even started releasing the Epstein files as part of the Epstein act, which hadn’t passed at the time. The subsequent release and redactions seem to have exposed even more, but his goose was cooked before that.
Current allegations are that Mandelson handed Epstein extremely sensitive government information. I forget what Brits call it, but we’d say it was classified.
And it currently seems like PM Kier Starmer is probably going to fall with him, since he apparently knew about Mendelson’s continuing association with post-conviction Epstein.
Anyways, that one particularly seems somewhat unrelated to the redaction choices.
“And it currently seems like PM Kier Starmer is probably going to fall with him, since he apparently knew about Mendelson’s continuing association with post-conviction Epstein.”
we can hope.
The problem is that unless Labour finds the most competent prime minister in British history, the clock is ticking until Brits elect Prime Minister Farage. Association with pedophiles and bribery is only toxic for left wing politicians (including pretend-left like Starmer).
Or, they get a new party and win with it. Isn’t Corbyn starting a new one? They just need a more populist, more cut throat type of Corbyn to lead the new party.
Because with this labour party in charge Reform is getting in, pretending they aren’t betraying the country while they cancel the magna carta isn’t going to change that.
And indeed starmer already did more damage than the tories did in over a decade. They are really taking this lesser of two dickheads strategy to an extreme just as it’s reaching it’s doomed to fail moment.
Corbyn‘s new party called Your Party was founded a few months ago. It’s a sectarian leftist party, already split between woke activists, socially conservative Muslims, and communist entryists.
The leaders Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn hate and work against each other openly.
Some important members are jumping ship and go to the Greens.
read some guardian articles on it https://www.theguardian.com/politics/your-party
Watch the party convention to get an idea of the culture.
The Guardian is very openly pro-Lib Dem, actively participated in the slander campaign against Corbyn including the one where a Jewish Holocaust Survivor was deemed an anti-semite to try and taint Corbyn by association and its columnists very openly say of themselves as being “Opinion Makers”.
These people are the very opposite of a trustworthy and unbiased news source when it comes to left-wing politics in Britain, with the notable exception of Monbiot and Owen Jones.
Sourcing your “information” about internals of left-wing parties from traditionally propagandist hard-neoliberal news media is almost as bad as sourcing it from fascist tabloids.
You can watch the Your Party conference and see for yourself.
What you need, is an economic populist, a real one not fake populism like on the right that scapegoats for the problems of the rich.
Just take the new party with a flood, and cut throat tactics to get control of the party enforcement mechanisms, fucking Corybyn never took control of it when he let the conservatives purge him and his supporters and the left out of the party often under demonstratably false allegations, as covered in Al Jazeera Investigates, The Labour Files, where someone dropped internal labour party emails. It would make your blood boil knowing how everything has turned out. This is all the conservative establishment inside labour’s fault.
Either you purge them all our of the party as they did the left, or take this new party, get rid of the divisive social justice pc warriors in any position of visibility, and make the party populist reform that everyone agrees with. No one wants to get fucked by the super rich without their consent. That is what people care most about too, having enough money to live a dignified life, nothing else matters without that point.
Sideline everyone pushing points for the super rich that are meant to divide, unite around the simple messages of restoring working people to a dignified wage and way of life and forcing the rich to relinquish the license they got from capturing our governments and party half a century back.
This sounds like you actually want to win an election and not just look good to your ultra progressive peers.
Building a wide coalition and appealing to a lot of voters is the way to win elections.
And indeed starmer already did more damage than the tories did in over a decade.
Sorry but what is that opinion based on?
As a Brit I can assure you that a) he has absolutely most certainly not done more than the previous Tory governments to mess the country up. Lizz Truss, for only a single example, ruined the economy in 40 odd days. b) the prevailing opinion is not that he has been worse than the Tories. The reason many people say they want to vote Reform is precisely because they are a right wing party that are not the Tories.
I’m very curious as to what you think his government has done that is worse than the 14 years of austerity, wrecked public finances, crumbling infrastructure and over population that the Tories provided? Obviously you are entitled to an opinion but I struggle to see what facts it could be based on.
Cancelled the right to a trial by jury for up to 3 years in prison, from 1 passed in 2020, cancelling the magna carta without a fight.
Created a masterbaitorbase, to record every web page you have considered whacking off to, you know, for the kids.
Cancelling the right to protest in a disfavored protest, then doing nothing while serious charges are filed for taking part in sanctioned protests, and while defenses against those charges are disallowed. Another repudiation of the Magna Carta, without a fight, because it’s “your” team.
Bad faith terrorism designations based on your politicians say so. Prosecutions under that, bad faith ones at that, laughing about them starving in prison with no trial date. etc.
What else seems like I’m forgetting something here. I shouldn’t need to tell you the masterbaitorbase is just the beginning, that along with age checks they are going to put everything you say and do through half baked ai threat detection that will give secret social scores.
I don’t have the energy right now to go through why this is all so bad, but you should already know that frankly, to a degree.
If you are happy about how things are going, I would suggest getting checked for taxoplasmosis.
Cancelled the right to a trial by jury for up to 3 years in prison, from 1 passed in 2020, cancelling the magna carta without a fight.
I thought these changes were still in the proposal stage? They are bad though and I disagree with them.
I don’t disagree with anything else you’ve listed. I’m just struggling to see how any of that is worse than what 14 years of a Tory government provided? On top of a ruined economy, failing public services, huge NHS waiting times etc. they also introduced the 9k tuition fees.
Are you a UK citizen? If so are you a particularly young one?
Because I can tell you now that if you were of voting age living through those Tory governments and you were living in the country, as me, you would be far more bitter about the 14 years of turning our country to shit than a year and a half of an incompetent slightly authoritarian Labour government.
The majority of people would say the same. The Tories were voted out by a sweeping majority in 2024 because of this. UK citizens loathed the party and a good deal many still do, hence the rise of Reform.
I understand why you are angry at Starmer’s government and your criticisms are fair, but I do not at all believe that your opinion that his government, over one and a half years, has been worse than the previous 14 years of Tory governance is founded on anything tangible whatsoever.
Starmer is neck deep in this, the cynical cunt. He was chosen to side with Israel come blackmailing of politicians in treason or cancelling the right to protest and freedom of speech. Somehow quashing dissent on Israel is more important, them and their financial backers being on video fucking children held by Israel explains why they do care so very much more than they should.
Mandelson got outed last fall, I thought he was let go then, the guardian podcast in focus was talking about him. Just a year or so earlier he was unapologetic in his undying fraternity with Epstein, telling inquiring journalists if they didn’t like it they could go fuck themselves, kind of attitude.
He changed to contrite last year.
Trump never would have reversed course and encouraged the release unless his team had figured out how to weaponise them.
Omg. 😯
More muted. What a title. You mean, there were zero fucking consequences.
They released this tranche of Epstein files Friday, January 30, 2026 – the same day many people across the US were spontaneously protesting against ICE.
It’s one thing when you feed the drama mill and send everyone scurrying for whatever little tidbits of meat there are to find in a set of dead files.
It’s quite another when across all fifty states people are just showing up voluntarily to reject your claim to power.
Don’t be deceived. They released them when they did and in the way they did because the Epstein files, as bad as they are and as wide in scope as they reach, are by far the LESSER danger to this regime and their absolute need to stay in power.
