{"id":90816,"date":"2026-03-12T06:51:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T06:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=90816"},"modified":"2026-03-12T06:51:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T06:51:37","slug":"mandelson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/03\/12\/mandelson\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandelson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are four things to say about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2026\/mar\/11\/peter-mandelson-documents-files-reveal-what-we-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Mandelson papers<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Starmer knew about Epstein, as did McSweeney.<\/li>\n<li>They appointed him anyway.<\/li>\n<li>They did not care about the risks, the victims, or the truth.<\/li>\n<li>All that mattered to them was creeping to a fascist.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>McSweeney has gone.<\/p>\n<p>Now Starmer should go.<\/p>\n<p>And Labour too, because it has wholly embraced this logic.<\/p>\n<p>There is not a lot more to say, except to note that fascism always corrupts. That is why it must be opposed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are four things to say about the the Mandelson papers: Starmer knew about Epstein, as did McSweeney. They appointed him anyway. They did not<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/03\/12\/mandelson\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,16,203,118,224,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-ethics","category-fascism","category-labour","category-neoliberalism","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90816"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90828,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90816\/revisions\/90828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}