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Good Pety. Well done, Petey. Peter
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Mandlesson wasn't just Jeffrey Epstein's
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friend. He was his lap dog. And it's not
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just that Labour's most oaginous grande
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was sering to Epstein in this way after
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he'd been jailed for prostituting a
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child. A lot of rich and powerful men
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were prepared to overlook these
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monstrous crimes and were apparently
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oblivious to the vulnerability of the
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women who surrounded Epstein. And
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Manderson's excuse that he didn't notice
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because he was a gay man is just not
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good enough. You'd have noticed if a
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friend of yours went to jail for being a
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pedophile. Pety wasn't the only man who
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not only failed to question the evidence
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of his own eyes, but frankly, as these
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Epstein files reveal, thought it was
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funny. But what's perhaps worse or at
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least more unique is that Manderson was
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apparently leaking highly confidential
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and commercially sensitive information
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relating to things like banking reforms
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that he was directly involved in as a
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government minister. We, as business
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journalists at Citym, have to be hyper
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aware of issues like insider trading.
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It's astonishing that a senior
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government minister held himself to a
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lower standard. And now former spies
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have publicly said that they believe
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Epstein was a Russian asset. So this
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goes beyond corruption. It's a possible
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threat to national security. The entire
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world must now reckon with how Epstein
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was able to abuse so many children in
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plain sight. But patriarchy is centuries
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old and will be slow to fix. Corruption,
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sedition, and insider trading should be
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possible to prove. And if he's guilty,
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Mandlesson should go to prison.
