Poor Peter, glad he’s getting some sympathetic coverage

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From The Times. He’s just a guy who’s had some bad luck after all!

What a very poorly written article. How did that ever get past the editor?

Yes, Mandelson is abhorrent and always was. I always thought that if a new ambassador to the USA was needed then don't pick someone as abhorrent as Trump.

Obviously that's a pre publication photo.

I'm glad they printed it. Letting people like that talk can be very helpful. He is SO odious in the article and the reporter doesn't need to add in any criticism. His own words are enough. Also, his musings on America/Reform/the need for Blairite policies are telling...

You know, you may not like all of Trump’s decisions, but at least he is decisive.”
The newly independent Mandelson has plenty of praise for the US president, even if Trump claimed not to know who he was during the state visit press conference. Was he offended? “He’s so clever,” Mandelson replies breezily.
Some independence might suit him. He says British politics is “ripe for disruption” — and Reform. “Farage is not an attractive proposition for a centrist politician like me, but both Labour and the Tories assume that they are the only parties licensed to supply Britain with prime ministers, as if we have some God-given right, and that Reform is simply a usurper waiting to fall by the wayside when the time comes.”

he was totally contemplating a Cummings style move to Reform. Hopefully he's so toxic now even Farage won't have him.

he was totally contemplating a Cummings style move to Reform. Hopefully he's so toxic now even Farage won't have him.

@persephonia

Farage did announce a big Labour person to defect to HIS party, Reform UK, only two weeks ago. Farage is mentioned 41 times in the Epstein files do far downloaded.

You know, you may not like all of Trump’s decisions, but at least he is decisive.

My God. How in thrall he is to power. Doesn’t matter what the decisions are, “at least he is decisive”. This is a man with no moral compass - as we now know. So far gone he doesn’t even realise he’s digging his own Epstein-shaped grave with comments like that.

And money. He correctly identified that sycophants to Trump make money.
It's also in his interests to lobby for continuing close ties between the UK and US in defence and technology because he can make money from doing so. E.g. "Global Counsel, a lobbying company Mandelson co-founded and part-owns, also works for Palantir"
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/04/peter-mandelson-palantir-jeffrey-epstein-government

His little about is still in the through and he wants to make sure it stays there.

Cancelling Subscription tomorrow

Aww come on. Say what you really think.

🤣

The only shock regarding Mandelson was the young women in a dressing-gown in his room while he paraded around in his awful underpants, euwww.

It's the absolute personification (dogification) of a hangdog expression.

🙂 you make a good point ✨️

I think that's a brilliant article. It puts me in mind of the Prince (at the time) Andrew interview, where he thought he was being so clever and reasonable and actually it made him look even worse. This supposedly genius political mind easily taken in by Epstein? We're supposed to believe that? And his husband getting a bursary for osteopath training? Where was the application form? What was the process? How did he qualify? Come on!

I think the Times were right to publish, it shows the progression of his public statements and squirming in real time, based on how badly busted he is.

Why?

6 to 8 weeks did sound long.

Having read the article I'm struggling to find the sympathy in it. It's more 'let him hang himself by his own words'

he sounds pathetic in it.

That bit sprang out to me, too! Decisive? Donald "TACO" Trump whom the markets now just sit out for a fortnight, because his backtracks are so predictable?

It would be funny if the context weren't so serious.

I absolutely agree that Mandelson is sucking up to power and money. He's identified new sources of both and is hitching his wagon to the rising stars.

This supposedly genius political mind easily taken in by Epstein? We're supposed to believe that? And his husband getting a bursary for osteopath training? Where was the application form? What was the process? How did he qualify? Come on!

I know!

"Poor little me, I'm too dim and naive to have noticed any issue." From a career political adviser and diplomat to the court of King Donald?! Yeah, no.

That's so odd there were about ten copies of this supplement in the magazine rack at my local Tesco yesterday.

He does! And headlines on the front page of The Times today are all about Mandy having his house raided by police!

You know we can see what you wrote before you edited it don’t you!

"I just hope people will judge me by the job I did and what we achieved.”

No. We won't.

The fucking bravado of these tossers.

Please do not compare dog muck to Peter Mandleson. Dog muck as with all excrement has a valid and useful purpose.

I saw that magazine cover on social media yesterday and assumed it was a jokey mock up. But no, it’s for real and sitting in my kitchen.

😂😆

Incredible to have both on the same day