So the ex-US attorney general gets a grilling. Good. About time the American establishment felt some heat, though I suspect this is less a bonfire of justice and more a damp squib of political theatre.
The Epstein files: a Pandora's box that the American elite has been desperately trying to keep shut. Now British victims are demanding answers, and for once, I applaud their persistence. But let's not kid ourselves that a congressional hearing will unearth the truth.
This is an empire that specialises in burying its scandals under layers of legal verbiage and procedural obfuscation. We've seen this before: a brief burst of righteous indignation, a sacrificial lamb or two, and then back to business as usual. The British victims deserve more than crumbs from the American table.
They deserve a full, independent inquiry, not a show trial designed to placate the public. The rot goes deep, and until we confront the networks of power and privilege that shielded Epstein, we will remain mired in this sordid swamp. This is not justice.
This is a carefully staged performance in a theatre of the absurd.
