David S. Moon

No charges in News of the World phone-hacking probe 6 December 2010 Updated 10 December 2010 No charges will be brought following a probe into phone hacking at the News of the World, prosecutors have confirmed. The director of public prosecutions Keir Starmer said there was no admissible evidence to support claims public figures' phones were hacked.

John Yates And And Keir Starmer 'Culpable' For Phone Hacking, Say MPs Scotland Yard And Crown Prosecution Service 'Culpable' For Phone Hacking, Say MPs PA 01/05/2012 11:19am BST Updated 2012-07-01T06:12:24+01:00 A top Scotland Yard officer and the head of the Crown Prosecution Service both "bear culpability" for failing to review evidence of phone hacking, the MPs found. The select committee said ex-Metropolitan Police counter-terrorism chief John Yates and Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer should have ensured that the material held by police was properly investigated in the years after the original prosecutions.

Time to wind up phone hacking probe, says top prosecutor Sir Keir Starmer calls for 'exit strategy' to investigation into tabloid journalism, saying unlimited prosecutions 'unhealthy' 29 June 2014 • 8:10pm

Keir Starmer confirms he has no plans to revive second stage of Leveson inquiry This article is more than 1 year old Press regulation campaigners accuse prime minister of lacking courage to stand up to newspaper owners Thu 25 Jul 2024 16.50 BST

Anyone feeling sympathy for Keir Starmer’s media treatment, recall: (1) he failed to charge News Corp phone hackers, (2) was found ‘culpable’ for hacking due to his failures, (3) wound up subsequent prosecutions early, and (4) rejected Leveson Stage 2.

This is the media environment he helped save.

YouTube video by The Poke The Nick Clegg Apology Song: I'm Sorry (The Autotune Remix)

I’m hearing rumours that Keir Starmer will today release a cover of Nick Clegg’s “So Sorry” song as the first stage in a government reset youtu.be/KUDjRZ30SNo?...

Keir Starmer confirms he has no plans to revive second stage of Leveson inquiry Press regulation campaigners accuse prime minister of lacking courage to stand up to newspaper owners

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No charges in News of the World phone-hacking probe 6 December 2010 Updated 10 December 2010 No charges will be brought following a probe into phone hacking at the News of the World, prosecutors have confirmed. The director of public prosecutions Keir Starmer said there was no admissible evidence to support claims public figures' phones were hacked.

John Yates And And Keir Starmer 'Culpable' For Phone Hacking, Say MPs Scotland Yard And Crown Prosecution Service 'Culpable' For Phone Hacking, Say MPs PA 01/05/2012 11:19am BST Updated 2012-07-01T06:12:24+01:00 A top Scotland Yard officer and the head of the Crown Prosecution Service both "bear culpability" for failing to review evidence of phone hacking, the MPs found. The select committee said ex-Metropolitan Police counter-terrorism chief John Yates and Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer should have ensured that the material held by police was properly investigated in the years after the original prosecutions.

Time to wind up phone hacking probe, says top prosecutor Sir Keir Starmer calls for 'exit strategy' to investigation into tabloid journalism, saying unlimited prosecutions 'unhealthy' 29 June 2014 • 8:10pm

Keir Starmer confirms he has no plans to revive second stage of Leveson inquiry This article is more than 1 year old Press regulation campaigners accuse prime minister of lacking courage to stand up to newspaper owners Thu 25 Jul 2024 16.50 BST

Anyone feeling sympathy for Keir Starmer’s media treatment, recall: (1) he failed to charge News Corp phone hackers, (2) was found ‘culpable’ for hacking due to his failures, (3) wound up subsequent prosecutions early, and (4) rejected Leveson Stage 2.

This is the media environment he helped save.

August 2023

The conversation about Mandelson and Epstein also needs to put the disinformation via omission by the political media class front and centre.

They’re going to try and make it about Starmer’s moral failures alone. Not their’s.

This stuff was just sitting there, being ignored.

But (and I don’t need to tell you this ofc) this also isn’t a revelation - a discovery of previously hidden facts. Mandelson’s link to the company, the off-the-books meeting, it was all public knowledge at the time. But all of a sudden people have noticed it, etc bsky.app/profile/daim...

“An Awful Human”: Prince Andrew’s Ex Slammed As “Disgusting” For Mocking Virginia Giuffre’s Passing What a nasty human being with no compassion and understanding of the trauma she endured. World

Tbc by ‘bragged’ I mean mocked, which she had form on www.boredpanda.com/prince-andre...

Peter Mandelson invited Lady Victoria Harvey to a party at the British Embassy in Washington, April 2025, where she bragged about Virginia Giuffre’s death.

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I was a bit disappointed that people in the broadcast world never asked Mandelson about this. They were the ones who had the opportunity in the full glare of public viewers in the Sunday shows, other radio shows that Mandelson was on all the time. No one ever seemed to say, what was this stay in Manhattan all about?

Keir Starmer just said, you know more about this than I do. He tried to shrug it off. Bear in mind that, I think it's been quite understated, probably just how important Mandelson was to Keir Starmer's team in opposition. I get the impression that he was talking to Morgan McSweeney, the chief of staff, practically every other day. Providing the strategic advice on what to do in policy terms, what decisions to make, how Keir Starmer should attack towards the center to win the election, which of course he did. Although you could argue that that's as much due to a failure of the Tories.

It was in January 2024. So I guess it was half a year before the election, and about a year before he gave Peter Mandelson the job as Washington ambassador. Yeah, that's extraordinary to think back. And he was able to shrug it off. I guess, as you say, for a lot of us in the media, sometimes you're kind of overwhelmed by evidence or what we used to call sort of cuttings. Hasn't this story been done? Haven't we heard this? Don't we know this already? And that's a kind of perennial response. And sometimes it's a tactic, right? From government or from press offices where they say, oh, you know, if you ask somebody about something, they will say, oh, that's old information. Obviously, we did a story yesterday about how Labour together had paid £30,000 to some kind of public affairs company to basically investigate journalists, including Gagel Pogroms, who had written critical stuff about the Electoral Commission finding them. Someone in government

I'm afraid I don't really care about that because obviously, questions around Labour Together, founded by Morgan McSweeney, are quite pertinent when McSweeney's future is in question right now. And that, for listeners, I guess, that they should understand how the media works and how politics works. That's a good window into why these stories can have a certain momentum, when stories can come out, and then there can be a sense of avalanche. And maybe some people will think, oh, has the media sat on all of this for a long time, and then suddenly they kind of reveal things when the tide is turning. It's not always about that. It's about the fact that there are questions that are pertinent at a certain time. And facts and figures that we knew before then start to come together, and they have more of a relevance at that moment.

FT Jim talking to the NS is actually quite helpful this week, and worth your time. These aren’t the bits he’d pick out, but they’re my beat, so

Wow! What sounded like the entire AEW Dynamite audience in Las Vegas tonight chanted "Fuck ICE! Fuck ICE!" in unison before the main event

I would like to start by acknowledging the victims of Epstein and the powerful men around him: vulnerable, abused women and girls who were sold and traded. Since the publication of Epstein’s papers, we have learnt so much more. An email from Jeffrey Epstein to Peter Mandelson, dated 28 October 2009, reads as follows: “new york? brown? cuban-american…have you made any decisions?” A few minutes later, Peter Mandelson responds: “why are you awake. these questions are all related – desp for CuAm but can only get to NY at a time when people feel G” —that may be Gordon Brown— “won’t have some sort of breakdown…still working on it, therefore”. There are so many questions to be asked about that. One of the suggested answers might be that this is not just about young women.

Emily Thornberry seems to have made the first public claim (with Parliamentary privilege) that Mandelson’s relationship with Epstein may have gone beyond securing *monetary* gain: “One of the suggested answers might be that this is not just about young women.”

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Starmer quizzed about 'close political ally' Lord Mandelson's connection to Jeffrey Epstein YouTube video by The Independent

He was directly told about it on camera in 2024 - long before the appointment as ambassador - and said “you know as much as I do” www.youtube.com/watch?si=rOH...

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🚨 This has finally been raised in the House of Commons chamber by the Conservatives front bench 🚨

People finally deciding to notice things!

YouTube video by The Independent Starmer quizzed about 'close political ally' Lord Mandelson's connection to Jeffrey Epstein

Starmer in 2024, re. Mandelson’s stay at Epstein’s flat:

“I don’t know anymore than you do, um, and therefore, um, there’s not really much more I can add to, um, what you already know I’m afraid”

Personally, if I was PM, I would have probably looked into it more m.youtube.com/watch?v=T56d...

This is NOT what [Peter Mandelson] is about. [Peter Mandelson] is about *opens history book* Uh oh

Oli Dugmore ® INS @OliDugmore • 1h Mandelson was mentoring McSweeney From the aftermath of the Hartlepool by-election to everything that followed - from the reshuffles and internal feuds to the candidate selections and Downing Street manoeuvrings - Mandelson has been there, available to advise the Starmer operation. As one person who worked with McSweeney in opposition puts it, "Morgan wouldn't breathe without consulting Mandelson first." "They talked all the time," observes another. Mandelson was a frequent visitor at McSweeney's home in rural Scotland. The once-close pair have not seen each other since Mandelson's sacking, according to two people familiar with the matter, and are no longer in regular contact.

1 And lo, there came upon the land a time of great Noticing, and many things were Noticed which had gone unseen 2 And the Hacks spake, saying, Whom could’ve known the taking bribes and wrecking his party with bullshit terror adviser guy was a Mandelson plant 3 And, it is a show, that is made of shit

Luckily the theory doesn’t age, even as the empirical data has ludicrously grown.

Rejection email for “In Defence of Paranoia: Addressing Political Studies’ Jeffrey Epstein Problem”

I do wish my proposed PSA conference paper on how academics in political studies could study a phenomenon like Jeffrey Epstein hadn’t been rejected 🤷🏻.

I submitted it in October and it feels like the question has only become more important. The number one issue in British Politics - predictably.

Peter Mandelson laughing at the exit poll

The opening shot of the BBC’s 2024 election evening broadcast was a laughing Peter Mandelson.

I took the screenshot at the time because I couldn’t believe this man who on my screen with everything we knew. 🤷🏻

Jesse Ventura: "Donald Trump wants to be a fascist dictator, and for those that don’t believe me, read your history" - NoDQ.com: WWE and AEW Coverage The latest WWE and AEW backstage wrestling news, rumors, opinions, and special features.

Jesse Ventura: “Donald Trump wants to be a fascist dictator, and for those that don’t believe me, read your history.”

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Corbyn and McDonald would swap one set of unaccountable elites for another, writes Peter Mandelson

But… he said he was against “unaccountable elites”! In the Times!

30 October 2012 Epstein: “it appears I’ve weathered my storm, you?” Mandelson: “As usual”

30 October 2012

Epstein: “it appears I’ve weathered my storm, you?”

Mandelson: “As usual”

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Ah yes, it was. So, Mandelson organised a cosy meeting with Rigobert Andeley and Epstein at the latter’s Paris apartment.

Discussing deals being done in Qatar about a “private bank project in Congo”

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and now that i can say this with mY full chest, ice and that entire administration.

Absolutely losing my mind over Ava, THE ROCK'S DAUGHTER, quitting WWE despite them offering her a raise to keep working a pretty cushy kayfabe general manager gig and then the day after her contract ends she posts this

2011 Email to Epstein from redacted: Was just sitting here...working on my talk...and de=ided I would rather think of a really fun dinner with you. Do you know wh= I would invite? 1. Paul Patterson — Caltech,=l like his idea about "stuck in your neural tube = screwed*=8* 2. Saif Qadafi — son of, but=also supposedly smart, activities against everything but good Africa ties=— wants to make money not fix poverty 3. Jesse Ventura — wrestler,=former , governator, Navy Seal 4. Paul Greengard — Nobel but=political nutcase 5. Oliver Sachs — neurologist=but nutjob Oh and you and me. I know I am dreaming but still it would be fun.

I like to think Jesse would have said no to this had it ever happened

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That’s the problem searching these emails, you sometimes miss the replies - in this case a recommendation from the Business Secretary that a banker “mildly threaten” his colleague the Chancellor bsky.app/profile/dann...

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