Carole Cadwalladr

The real scandal of yachtgate is that Deripaska peddled influence in UK for years. Influence that the UK govt is STILL refusing to investigate. Mandelson’s venality & hunger for the high life shows up not just in his compromising r’ship with Epstein. Deripaska needs far greater scrutiny too.
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Deripaska is such a key figure in subversion of US 2016 election. And tight with half the British establishment. The files show how Mandelson tried to get his help with Russia visa for Epstein & much more. Tony Blair is also in the mix because: of course.
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I’ve been obsessed with this scandal for years. And have talked about with @professorshaw.bsky.social many times. It was the same year, Epstein was convicted. And what’s amazing is how it foreshadows what’s in the files.
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Peter Mandelson, the Russian superyacht and the scandal we completely misread When Britain's most powerful political fixer was caught on an oligarch's boat in Corfu, we called it Yachtgate and moved on. The Epstein files now reveal the full picture: a web of Russian money, paed...

NEW: This is a terrific deep dive into Epstein & Russia by @professorshaw.bsky.social for @thenerve.news which starts with ‘Yachtgate’, Mandelson’s 2008 scandal involving Nat Rothschild, George Osborne & Russian oligarch, Oleg Deripaska
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"It's just a terrible, terrible indictment that it wasn't because a woman's word was sufficient," says @carolecadwalla.bsky.social about the long-overdue investigation into Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the former Prince Andrew, over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

Carole Cadwalladr on Epstein Fallout: As U.K. Arrests Ex-Prince, Where is the Accountability in U.S.? British police released former Prince Andrew on Thursday after 11 hours in custody, with his shocking arrest earlier in the day making him the first senior British royal to be arrested in nearly 400 y...

We speak to British investigative Carole Cadwalladr about the U.K. arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and investigation into the extent of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

I also write about the Epstein files. Because it’s the another eg of US press lacking guts or clarity or leadership to say it like it is. It’s the dog didn’t bark. And if it isn’t barking now..what happens when/if Trump attempts to throw the mid terms?

The US coup: one year on I re-publish my piece from a year ago. It's not yet over. But it's nearly there...

NEW: ‘It’s a coup’.

One year on from when DOGE entered the US treasury & Trump’s blitzkrieg on the rule of law began, I’ve republished an article I wrote then about what the headlines weren’t saying.

NB: They’re still not.
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this is another absolutely brutal read. but a critical one, particularly for academics.

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Guys. Guys! What if the gender divide in the experience of imposter syndrome in the academy (with women overwhelming feeling not smart enough/good enough) is just an artifact of invisible systems… like this one…?

Wow. Seriously, read it.

This is an important piece. Epstein was a consummate social climber and courted academics as a way of building social clout. Brockman and “the edge” illuminate just how that worked.

Thank you! As far as I can tell, the publishing industry and the press that covers it have said almost nothing about its Epstein connections through Epstein's bespoke literary agent John Brockman. The silence is giving off its own special stink. This was an important part of the Epstein "mystique."

I bonded with Virginia a few years back over a mutual fascination with Edge.org. I recognised its influence years ago, even pitched a piece on it...but I did not seethe ideology beneath the 'science' Epstein/Brockman promoted which @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social lays bare
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Richard Dawkins and Ian McEwan, amongst others, took part in this Epstein-organised pseudo intellectual think tank for eugenicists and neofascists.

This isn't something distant or far away. Super-agent & close Epstein ally, John Brockman had huge influence. His 'rockstar' writers, scientists and academics dominated our book pages & broadsheets.

We need nothing less than a total revisionist history of the last 20 years.
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The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...

NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics.
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We were there and loved every minute.
Though it was sobering to learn from Laura Poitras that Seymour Hersh - a man who has bravely broken stories about so many obscene cover-ups by US military and gov (Vietnam, Nixon, Abu Ghraib) believes that things have never been as bad as they are right now…

I read this piece a week ago & was mad at it all over again today

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‘Either sex workers or aspiring sugar babies’ @theatlantic.com on why it’s ok cos some of Epstein’s women were over 18

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And it's not just London! I'll be in conversation with the amazing @ecetemelkuran.bsky.social in Manchester on Feb 19. I got to know Ece's work because of her brilliant 'How to Lose a Country' about rising authoritarianism in Turkey & across the world. Now, she returns with a 'Nation of Strangers'

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YouTube video by Democracy Now! Protecting Pedophile Predators: Carole Cadwalladr on Jeffrey Epstein & the Elite's Veil of Silence

US media is indeed in disastrous, corporate meltdown but @carolecadwalla.bsky.social is too bleak about #Epstein fallout. That demands to hold accountable the criminal male elite are front & center in US politics & shattering MAGA coalition is amazing. And fight is not over.
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The Epstein files expose the networks behind the same far-right playbook.

@elliechowns.bsky.social says it’s time for a full inquiry 👇

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social on press failings around the Epstein files @democracynow.org