So Epstein buddies Andrew and Mandelson have been arrested in the UK. And in the US? Zero, zip, nada

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I can’t believe the cops didn’t max out the theatrics yesterday when taking Peter Mandelson to the police station to help with their inquiries. They didn’t even do that thing where they put their hand on top of the suspect’s head to ease him down into the back seat of the car. Absolutely no sense of occasion.

And you know, they really may as well have had one. Misconduct in a public office is such an archaic old law and so incredibly difficult to prove that it may well be that you have already seen the high-water mark of law-adjacent consequences for both Mandy and Andy. The perp walk is the punishment. No offence to the highly esteemed Metropolitan police and the various other forces who’ve found the rare grooming-gang scandal they can be arsed with, but it’s hard to get past the deep-rooted suspicion that they are just looking busy. But look, we got one iconic royal photo out of it and a clip of Mandelson over which you could wonder absentmindedly, “Is this honestly the first time he’s been arrested? I must be having a deja vu because it hasn’t happened before, yet it feels so weirdly familiar. For whatever reason.” Anyway, allow me to reiterate that both of the men mentioned in this paragraph deny any wrongdoing.

So, in the UK, two guys have been arrested in connection with the Epstein scandal: a famously very clever one and a famously very thick one. What unites them? I have a theory about the many, many friends of Jeffrey. And that is that the more desiccated and vulnerable the milieu they hail from, the greater the chance that they may feel the not-very-full force of the law. This may be why the only two arrests we have seen – bar Epstein himself and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell – are from the British monarchy and the upper echelon of establishment British politics. Are either of these institutions in rude and red-toothed health? Erm, answer unnecessary. But if you are one of Jeffrey’s big shots in big tech, or a high roller from high finance – well, as Holly Golightly once noted of the reassuring facade of Tiffany’s, nothing very bad could happen to you there.