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Monday 23 February 2026

“My best pal”: Mandelson and Epstein

In a new podcast, Ada Barumé and Poppy Bullard investigate how close the former US ambassador truly was to the billionaire sex offender

The Slow Newscast is a weekly investigative podcast

The Epstein Files are wreaking havoc across British institutions; first the Royal family and now, the government. Peter Mandelson was sacked as us ambassador in September over his links to the billionaire paedophile, but the latest tranche of documents show the pair were closer than anyone previously knew. What did their relationship look like? And did it give Jeffrey Epstein access to the heart of the British government?

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