“Elite Decadence & Decay”

From the countryside to Canterbury, the nation’s elites have contempt for all things English.

Picture the scene: gently rolling green hills, a babbling brook, sheep grazing in fields bounded by drystone walls. Perhaps a village sits in the distance, with honey-gold houses, church bells ringing, and, of course, a welcoming pub. The English countryside is celebrated worldwide—except, it seems, in England itself.

Where most people see a rural idyll, Britain’s bureaucrats spy a scandal. The countryside is a “white environment,” they complain. “White,” by their warped logic, means definitionally hostile to nonwhite people, which means racism, which is bad. So things must change. Last month, Britain’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) set out proposals to make the countryside more attractive to minorities, reportedly complete with “diversity targets.”

🚨BREAKING: Snowflake confronts British man at his own door and demands he take down his British flag and American flag.

Reason given: flying a British flag in Britain is “offensive”. pic.twitter.com/ZUGUftFz7K

— The British Patriot (@TheBritLad) March 13, 2026

The release of the Epstein files has rippled through politics, business and academics, revealing secret ties that many prominent people kept with Jeffrey Epstein. After their connections became public, many said they regretted associating with Epstein and some have stepped down from their roles. Here is a list of famous names in the files and those who have resigned or have been arrested.

Jeffrey Epstein trafficked women through British airports until a month before his arrest in 2019, the Epstein files suggest.

Booking records, flight logs, as well as fuel receipts – a part of the trove of documents released by the Department of Justice – show the paedophile financier flew to and from Britain over 60 times.

And the disgraced financier, 66, booked commercial flights for women in and out of the UK just a month before his arrest in 2019.

h/t Mauser

Lord Mandelson has been arrested on suspicion of committing misconduct in public office.

The former Labour minister was pictured being led from his London home by plain clothes police officers on Monday afternoon.

The Metropolitan Police started investigating Lord Mandelson after it emerged that he appeared to have leaked sensitive government documents to Jeffrey Epstein while serving as business secretary in Gordon Brown’s cabinet.

Jeffrey Epstein hid computers and photographs from United States authorities in secret storage lockers across the country, The Telegraph can reveal.

Documents uncovered by this newspaper show the paedophile paid private detectives to remove equipment from his Florida home in an apparent attempt to prevent investigators from finding it.

The documents also show that he rented six storage units across the US and used them to house items from his properties, including computers from Little Saint James, his private island in the Caribbean.

The House of Windsor has an admirable Teflon quality that has enabled it to survive constitutional crises from the abdication of Edward VIII to the death of Princess Diana. But the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor may yet prove to be the downfall of the monarchy and the British establishment which it props up.

The prospect of the former prince, who for now remains eighth in line to the throne, standing in the dock of an English crown court that bears his brother’s coat of arms, while detectives continue to extend their investigation across the royal estate, is likely to ignite a constitutional crisis that the royal family cannot survive. For the tax-paying public, watching aghast, it is hard not to sense a decades-long conspiracy of silence and self-interested self-protection as well as a strong whiff of rotten corruption at the heart of the state.

Members of Congress have urged the US government to take action against associates of Jeffrey Epstein, following the arrest in the UK of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor on suspicion of misconduct in public office.

“Prince Andrew was just arrested,” Thomas Massie, a Republican congressman who co-sponsored the law that compelled the justice department to release the Epstein files, wrote on X. “Now we need JUSTICE in the United States.”

The King’s brother, who was stripped of his titles last year due to his ties with Epstein, has consistently and strenuously denied any wrongdoing.