4 h. ago Keir Starmer appoints career diplomat Christian Turner as US ambassador

Turner, appointed ambassador to UN in May, now replaces Peter Mandelson who was sacked over Epstein linksKeir Starmer has appointed the career diplomat Christian Turner as the UK’s ambassador to Washington, replacing Peter Mandelson who was sacked over his links to Jeffrey Epstein.Turner, who was appointed ambassador to the UN in May, had previously been political director at the Foreign Office and had brokered a close relationship with the new Labour administration before taking up his UN role in New York. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Starmer appoints career diplomat Christian Turner as US ambassador

Current ambassador to UN to replace Peter Mandelson, who was forced to quit over Epstein linkKeir Starmer has appointed the career diplomat Christian Turner as the new ambassador to Washington, government sources have confirmed.Turner will be replacing Peter Mandelson who was forced to quit over his links to Jeffrey Epstein. Continue reading...

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14 h. ago How many big names have paid the price for being linked to Jeffrey Epstein? Fewer than you might think | Emma Brockes

Remarkably, most of the men connected to the convicted sex offender have barely experienced any fallout. That says as much as the scandal itselfA couple of weeks ago, the annual DealBook Summit got under way in New York. It’s a series of public talks billed as conversations with “the world’s most consequential people”, and is part of that circuit of live events in which the worst people on Earth gather on stage to address the second-worst people on Earth, their paying audience. Hosted by Andrew Ross Sorkin, the conference was a characteristically starry affair, but in a lineup that included Charlie Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk, the US treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, and “changemaker” Halle Berry, it was Ehud Barak, the former prime minister of Israel and a former associate of Jeffrey Epstein, who really caught the eye.My first thought about Barak’s appearance was: Larry Summers must be spitting. Summers, the former president of Harvard and another Epstein associate, was very much not...

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39 h. ago Renfrewshire Council to consult with Andrew Avenue residents on prospect of renaming Renfrew street

It follows the removal of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's titles amid growing scrutiny over his links with Jeffrey Epstein.

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61 h. ago Fresh blow for Andrew as more streets could be renamed in wake of Epstein scandal

A council in Renfrew has opened a consultation to rename Andrew Avenue in the wake of the scandal surrounding the former Prince over his links to the late convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein

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61 h. ago Nearly 90 flights linked to Epstein ‘came to or from UK airports’

Flight logs reveal three British women onboard who were allegedly trafficked by convicted sex offender, according to BBCNearly 90 flights linked to Jeffrey Epstein reportedly arrived at and departed from UK airports, some with British women onboard who allege they were abused by the convicted child sex offender.Analysis by the BBC found three British women who were allegedly trafficked appear in Epstein’s records of flights in and out of the UK and other documents related to the late disgraced billionaire. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Schmaltz, theatre and sharp teeth: Wrexham reveal the hard truth about football | Barney Ronay

With the arrival of US hedge funders at Wrexham, there is no pretence any more. This is just another project, as it always wasTea and cake. Cobble-close streets. Collectivism. Sugar rush. Hollywood fairytales. And also, as of this week, a minority owner with historical links to celebrity paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.Wait! Welsh cakes! Welsh tea! Aggregated tourism benefits. The sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea. And also, at one remove, historical links to deceased celebrity paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Sarah Ferguson 'stayed at Jeffrey Epstein's flats for three years after ceasing contact'

Biographer Andrew Lownie alleges Sarah Ferguson stayed at apartments linked to Jeffrey Epstein until 2014, three years after she publicly claimed to have ceased contact with the convicted sex offender

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1 week ago Digested week: Minor quake hits book lauding bits of Robert F Kennedy Jr’s chest | Emma Brockes

Defenders rally to Olivia Nuzzi amid book mockery, while rakish David Dimbleby channels his inner DickensIt’s publication week for American Canto, the hastily turned around memoir by the former New York magazine journalist Olivia Nuzzi, who took on the challenge of explaining what it was about Robert F Kennedy Jr she found so alluring, a task for which no upper word limit is adequate. Nuzzi, if you’ve fallen behind, developed romantic feelings for the then presidential candidate, now Trump health minister, while profiling him for the magazine and since I’ve had to read this sentence, you do too: “He was exhausted, and he threw himself onto the bed, his pink shirt unbuttoned, revealing my favorite parts of his chest.” If you have a favourite part of RFK Jr’s chest, or consider chests in general subject to preference by localised area, this may be the book for you. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Councillors asked to back consultation on renaming Renfrew's Andrew Avenue

It follows the removal of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's titles amid growing scrutiny over his links with Jeffrey Epstein.

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2 w. ago Watch Simon Cowell’s TV search for a new boyband – and see how our world has changed | Emma Brockes

Twenty years on, the social media-savvy contestants will have greater power. His brutal approach to judging them will have to change, tooThere is a moment in the trailer for Simon Cowell’s new Netflix show, The Next Act, that is almost touching in its adherence to the way things once were. Cowell, who we see on a variety of beige sofas primly clutching his knees, talks about how to curate a new boyband, 20 years after the launch of his first TV talent show. “There is a huge risk here,” he says, heavy with drama. “If this goes wrong, it will be: ‘Simon Cowell has lost it.’” In fact, as anyone who has an eye on dwindling audience figures for his existing shows knows, for the vast majority of 18- to 24-year-olds – or even for younger millennials – the more likely response will be, “Simon who?”Which doesn’t mean that a new generation of viewers can’t be lured in by Cowell’s expertise. The question of whether 66-year-old Cowell can tweak a dusty and decades-old model has less to do with ...

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3 w. ago Royal Family website finally updated to show Andrew change in line of succession

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was stripped of his titles after the scandal over his links sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and now the Royal Family website has been updated

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3 w. ago At last, TV about influencers that isn’t cringe – I Love LA is my show of the year | Emma Brockes

It gets into its twentysomething characters’ heads in a way that’s fresh and real. You either get it, or you don’tIt’s been a while since a TV show came along that people leaned into losing their minds about, but finally, and after a year of otherwise mediocre programming, we have one. I Love LA, the HBO comedy set among wannabe gen Z influencers, is only halfway through its eight-episode run, but it is already comfortably the best show of the year. And more importantly, it has triggered all the signifiers of event TV: obsessive repeat viewings, line-by-line coverage, big platform profiles of its stars and weekly recaps on Vulture, New York magazine’s website. Within days of each episode airing, people have transcribed and uploaded the entire script, which – with the best will in the world – no one’s doing for Riot Women.The surprising thing about this is not the fact that it’s the first show by Rachel Sennott, the show’s 30-year-old creator and star, or that the action takes place ...

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3 w. ago Met Police officers scouring Andrew accuser Virginia Giuffre's posthumous memoir for fresh leads

The Mail on Sunday has learnt that officers are examining Virginia Giuffre's book as part of a 'scoping exercise' into revelations by this newspaper about Andrew's links to Jeffrey Epstein.

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3 w. ago Andrew ignores invitation to speak to US Congress about links to Jeffrey Epstein

It comes as Trump signs in a bill which will see the Epstein files released within 30 days

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4 w. ago Andrew ignores invitation to speak to US Congress about his links to billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein as deadline passes

The former prince was given until today to respond to a request to testify before the House Oversight Committee after calls to 'come clean' about his dealings with the billionaire financier.

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4 w. ago Every time new emails drop, elites do the Epstein shuffle: ‘Yes I knew him, but I didn’t KNOW him’ | Emma Brockes

For the New York and Washington great and good who loved the company of wealth and power, all that glitters is no longer goldMany years ago, I went to a party in central London thrown by a host known for curating interesting and heavyweight guest lists and, on entering, encountered David Irving, the disgraced historian and Holocaust denier. As a marker of social pariahdom, Holocaust denial is up there with – or perhaps even more potent than – a conviction for sex offences, and I turned around and walked out; not through any particular moral superiority, but because I thought “notoriety” as a criteria for inclusion on a guest list was stupid and offensive. As I left, I remember looking across the room at the host and thinking: you silly bloody bint, I’m embarrassed for you.I thought about that party and Irving this week while reading, with grim amusement, the absolute scramble currently under way in the US among media and other public figures seeking to explain, justify, downplay and...

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4 w. ago Sarah Ferguson’s new children’s book ‘pulped’ after scrutiny over Jeffrey Epstein links

Copies of Flora and Fern: Kindness Along the Way, which was set to be published in October, have been sent for recyclingThousands of copies of Sarah Ferguson’s new children’s book have reportedly been withdrawn and “pulped” in the wake of the renewed scrutiny over her links to the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.The book had been due for publication on 9 October, but was postponed until 20 November. It has now been removed entirely from publication schedules, and publishing sources have claimed that printed copies are being sent for recycling. Continue reading...

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