Save the Date

Chatham House Zoom chat planned for Saturday 21st February.

Helen Dale and I will be hosting a paid subscribers only Chatham House rules chat on Saturday 21st February at 9pm AEST / 10 am GMT—morning in the UK, evening in Australia. Among other things, we’ll be discussing my two pieces (here and here) on what happens when policy regimes decay.

The Zoom link paid subscribers require is below the fold.

Helen has also been commissioned to write a piece on Epstein, Mandelson, Starmer, and Blair—and UK politics. Of necessity, that means drawing out the implications of this earlier piece on the Epstein Files. We want input from our readers, but we’re both also still baffled by and curious about Australian absences from Epstein—even hugely wealthy and influential ones, like Rupert Murdoch.

The few Australians that do appear do so in what are odd contexts (see Kevin Rudd, for example). There’s even a serious case to be made that British-Australian microbiologist Melanie Thomson has managed to emerge from a place in the Epstein Files with her reputation enhanced.