By punter99 - 20 Feb 26 9:53 AM
A dawn raid, devices seized, interviewed at the police station and RUI. A familiar tale, but I found it all rather comforting, strangely. Its nice to know that I have something in common with a man who is still 8th in line to the throne. I expect Andrew will be joining us on the forum shortly.
The reaction from Charles was revealing. Basically pretended not to know his brother. Again, another familiar tale. I wonder what they will find on his devices? Given the many rumours in the Epstein files, suggesting that he was more interested in young girls than Epstein himself, there is a good chance something indecent will be found.
Of course he will have the best lawyers and probably will not spend a day behind bars. Nevertheless, this investigation is long overdue. Anyone else facing this amount of speculation would have been arrested years ago.
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By khafka - 21 Feb 26 3:25 AM
+xA dawn raid, devices seized, interviewed at the police station and RUI. A familiar tale, but I found it all rather comforting, strangely. Its nice to know that I have something in common with a man who is still 8th in line to the throne. I expect Andrew will be joining us on the forum shortly. The reaction from Charles was revealing. Basically pretended not to know his brother. Again, another familiar tale. I wonder what they will find on his devices? Given the many rumours in the Epstein files, suggesting that he was more interested in young girls than Epstein himself, there is a good chance something indecent will be found. Of course he will have the best lawyers and probably will not spend a day behind bars. Nevertheless, this investigation is long overdue. Anyone else facing this amount of speculation would have been arrested years ago.
I'll admit I did get a little chuckle out of The Mirror's reporting of it where the condition of his cell where it was "just a bed and a toilet". Like yeah, that's the idea lol. My "bed" was one of those thin, blue crash mats we'd use for P.E. in school. No pillows, no duvet, no turndown service,. 2/5, wouldn't recommend staying again.
I feel incredibly fortunate that my family have stood by me throughout it all and in some ways it actually brought me and my mum a bit closer.
Curious how this all plays out. From my understand this arrest/investigation isn't into the Epstein sex abuse stuff but something to do with trade secrets or something?
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By Mr W - 23 Feb 26 4:38 PM
Is anyone feeling a knock-on effect of all of this Epstein, Andrew, Mandelson story... ?
It's starting to feel like if you have any links at all with somebody else with a criminal past, let's say, then they can get into trouble or be humiliated themselves?
Mandelson wasn't involved in the sordid things with E, the criticism for him was around divulging sensitive information, but it feels like it's being packaged as 'how could you be friends with a convicted criminal? OMGGGGG' and because of the nature of E's convictions (for which his sentence was served), it's almost saying Mandelson's complicit, even though he had nothing to do with that side of things.
With the relentless labels we have to temporarily deal with, I've felt a subtle abandonment, from a few acquaintances who didn't wish me happy birthday when they normally would, or meet up from time to time... it's all gone a bit quiet. It might just be me but thought I'd put it out there.
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By khafka - 23 Feb 26 8:06 PM
+xIs anyone feeling a knock-on effect of all of this Epstein, Andrew, Mandelson story... ? It's starting to feel like if you have any links at all with somebody else with a criminal past, let's say, then they can get into trouble or be humiliated themselves? Mandelson wasn't involved in the sordid things with E, the criticism for him was around divulging sensitive information, but it feels like it's being packaged as 'how could you be friends with a convicted criminal? OMGGGGG' and because of the nature of E's convictions (for which his sentence was served), it's almost saying Mandelson's complicit, even though he had nothing to do with that side of things. With the relentless labels we have to temporarily deal with, I've felt a subtle abandonment, from a few acquaintances who didn't wish me happy birthday when they normally would, or meet up from time to time... it's all gone a bit quiet. It might just be me but thought I'd put it out there.
I wouldn't necessarily say I'm feeling any kind of effect personally but I have certainly noticed a slight rise in the sentiment of basically "Oh you're friends with XX then you're obviously YY by association".
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By punter99 - 5 Apr 23 5:33 PM
The media reaction to this case was very unexpected. A lot of the newspapers who absolutely hate SO, were extremely critical of Philip Schofield, for disowning his brother.
We know that the view of the press, is that SO are inhuman monsters, being pure evil and incapable of rehabilitation, so you would have thought their advice to Philip Schofield, would be to have nothing to do with his brother anymore. But it wasn't.
A lot of the commentators, who regularly call for SO to receive the most brutal punishments possible, came out and said that they would never disown a family member, 'no matter what they had done', because blood is thicker than water etc.
I think it shows how, when an SO is somebody that you know, rather than a stranger, then people do see them differently. In other words, they see the person, rather than just the offence.
If you dehumanise somebody, then it is easier to treat them as a monster, but when they are humanised, it is much more difficult. There is a lesson in there for the media, but will they now learn from this and cover these stories differently in future?
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