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Edition 83 – March 2026

cover of edition 83, with the image split in two halves, darker above and lighter below, with images of Trump, Epstein, Mandelson and Mountbatten, and the word "Darkness"; and the lower half lighter with Giuffre and her family and the word "Visible"

Inside

Highlights

  • Nazir Afzal: ‘Class Discrimination Isn’t a Complex Mystery – It’s a Structural Issue Quietly Enforced, Politely Denied, Endlessly Deferred’ 

    Nazir Afzal: ‘Class Discrimination Isn’t a Complex Mystery – It’s a Structural Issue Quietly Enforced, Politely Denied, Endlessly Deferred’ 

    The Chancellor of Manchester University has co-authored a new report, ‘Class Ceiling’, examining working-class participation in the creative industries across Greater Manchester. He spoke to Hardeep Matharu and Peter Jukes about how opportunities for people from poorer backgrounds has declined since the 1960s, and why his work prosecuting the grooming gangs perpetrators as the former…

  • The Nepo Baby Strikes Back

    The Nepo Baby Strikes Back

    Brooklyn Peltz Beckham’s disownment of the House of Posh and Becks is a move both psychological and pragmatic, writes Jake Arnott

  • The Sleep of Reason; The Lightbulb of Brutal Clarity

    The Sleep of Reason; The Lightbulb of Brutal Clarity

    Like that 2010 exposure of US foreign policy discussions, the Epstein Files shine a light on a global policy-making programme – not one run by elected politicians or the ‘deep state’, but an international set of monied oligarchs enjoying a tax-free, lawless lifestyle in the offshore archipelago of dark money and shadow banking.

  • Power Protects Itself Through Powerlessness

    Power Protects Itself Through Powerlessness

    Does he really think we’ll believe it? It was the question that sat in our heads as we watched the then Prince Andrew give his fateful interview to Newsnight’s Emily Maitlis in 2019 on his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, months after the sex offender and trafficker was found dead in a New York prison.

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