Andrew arrested, Mandelson probed - where it comes to Jeffrey Epstein, “nobody is above the law” is about to get tested hard. Right so Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as Prince, has been arrested by Thames Valley Police on suspicion of misconduct in public office, and officers have been searching addresses in Berkshire and Norfolk, and that alone is enough to set the whole Epstein universe on fire again, because this isn’t another vague “links to Epstein” story any more, it’s the British state saying, out loud, that it is treating a former royal now as a suspect in an abuse-of-office investigation connected to what he is alleged to have passed to Jeffrey Epstein while holding a public role. But Peter Mandelson is the name sitting right beside that in the public mind, because the Metropolitan Police have already confirmed they are also investigating misconduct in public office allegations involving a former minister in relation to Epstein material and they have executed search warrants there as well, and the public can see the two tracks at once now, not as gossip, as policing decisions, and that is why the question becomes immediate and unavoidable: why does one man get the full spectacle and the coercive control of an arrest while the other gets “under investigation” language, even while warrants are being served? Andrew’s brother, King Charles has done the ritual line, deep concern, proper process, law must take its course, and Keir Starmer has done the other strand of that, saying nobody is above the law, and anybody with information should come forward. With the nonsense he’s up to in trying to make the law fit when it comes to protesters, it’s a bit rich invoking the law in respect to this quite frankly, but that’s by the by. Those phrases though are supposed to steady the ship, but they don’t, because when the Epstein name is involved people do not hear reassurance, they hear establishment self-protection, and they start asking who is being thrown overboard and who is being kept behind the rope, how far does this latest Epstein rabbit hole go?