So is Mandelson's appointment as Ambassador the fault of poor MI5 vetting?

So claims Sir Keir Starmer but one didn’t have to call in Mycroft Holmes to find the facts about Epstein and Mandelson even then. Back in 2023 the Financial Times reported uncovering an internal JP Morgan dossier from 2019, which found ‘Epstein appears to maintain a particularly close relationship with Prince Andrew the Duke of York and Lord Peter Mandelson, a senior member of the British Government’ and suggested Lord Mandelson stayed at Epstein’s house in Manhattan (the one full of pornographic art) in June 2009, whilst Epstein was in prison for soliciting prostitution from a minor. Still, we’ve all house-sat for sex traffickers by mistake. And the photos of Epstein and Mandelson shopping next to an enormous ugly glass vase and Mandelson attending Epstein’s birthday party in the early 00s have been doing the rounds of the tabloids and the internet for years. Still, who hasn’t been to a party on a peadophile island by mistake? That Mandelson should never have been appointed is not a three pipe problem. The question is what magical powers did the Prince of Darkness have to allow him to defy political gravity…? All the recent revelations have done is turn the already small mountain of evidence against him into a volcanic archipelago but there was undeniably a mountain already… Perhaps this why was he made Ambassador to the United States? My theory is the Cabinet would not wear the Lord as an unelected cabinet member anymore after Brown and no CLP would take him on as a candidate and no constituency would elect him again so Starmer was forced to invent some kind of job to keep McSweeney happy but Mandelson at arms length by inserting an Ocean between Peter and the PLP… and one he hoped would put enough distance between himself and the Lord of Darkness that if the skeletons fell fully out of the closet again then… There was however, a tiny flaw in the plan… since Epstein topped himself, his every email now belongs to some trust he set up and the FBI and it lays bare years of skulduggery in breathtaking detail.  Bit of lobbying here, bit of insider trading there, pumping his associates for information, supplying sex slaves to the rich and infamous.  It's wilder than a Bond novel.

As to Epstein's death that resembles a locked room mystery like something out of the Sherlock Holmes story The Speckled Band.  Was it suicide?  Epstein originally shared a cell with multiple murder and drug conspiracy suspect Nicholas Tartaglione who attacked him.  Following this he was moved to a single cell and put on suicide watch but then taken off it and moved back to a normal cell where he had another cellmate who was moved out the evening before his death.  He was not checked on every 30 minutes, cameras failed and he was discovered to have hung himself at 6:30am.  Discovered in his cell were notes investigated by 60 minutes about burnt food and "Giant Bugs crawling all over my hands". See here.  Was he drugged?  In the Adventure of the Speckled Band a snake is introduced into the seemingly impenetrable locked room via an air vent.  New York City's Chief Medical Examiner Barbara Sampson and Epstein's lawyers' pathologist Michael Baden disagreed violently about the cause of death and autopsy report.  How did a 6ft man hang himself from a top bunk?  Were his injuries consistent with hanging? The FBI interviewed dozens of FBI witnesses who were not in the room at the time of his death and 100,000 documents about what happened when no one was looking and said it was definitely suicide.  29% of the public believe them.