Morgan McSweeney and Sir Olly Robbins have lost their jobs at the heart of the British government. The reason, buried in parliamentary testimony, is a familiar name: Jeffrey Epstein. Both aides reportedly failed to draw vetting concerns to Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s attention regarding the appointment of Lord Mandelson as the U.S. ambassador. Testimony from Sir Philip Barton and Ian Collard, the Foreign Office’s head of security, revealed that the Cabinet Office tried to claim Mandelson was 'exempt' from standard security checks because he was a privy counsellor.

This is the Ghost Elite in action. While the Foreign Office’s director of security insisted the peer’s appointment was anything but clear-cut, the inner circle pushed him through anyway. Voters now back a sleaze inquiry into whether Starmer misled MPs by a margin of three to one. Across the Atlantic, the same rot persists. Former Attorney General Pam Bondi is set for a May 29 deposition in the House Oversight Committee’s own Epstein probe. Democrats on the panel had to file civil contempt charges just to get her to show up.

Whether in London or Washington, the mechanisms of power are being used to shield the social circle of a dead sex trafficker. They use 'privy counsellor' status to bypass the rules meant for the rest of us. They fight subpoenas until the last possible second. The thread linking these events, though stated in no filing, is the preservation of an unaccountable class that views national security as a secondary concern to elite social standing.