Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office(www.bbc.com)
47 pointsby asdefghyk2 hours ago10 comments
  • FrankWilhoitan hour ago
    This is how it is done! But it could only have been done with the King's permission. I wonder how he will spin it.
    • rsynnottan hour ago
      The thing about a lot of monarchical powers in the UK is that the monarch gets to keep them, provided of course that they only ever use them as prescribed by the government. As to what happens otherwise, well, Charles III won't want to emulate Charles I.

      (I'm kind of amazed he chose that name, tbh; it's not particularly uncommon for British monarchs to rename themselves on taking the throne, and it has... baggage.)

    • asdefghykan hour ago
      I think there is a lot more of this story to play out ...

      Still seems to be lots more to play out.

      Example - Why all the supposed "...rich and powerful names ...." being seemingly protected ?

      What do they have to hide ?

  • spacebanana72 hours ago
    The last time the Duke of York was arrested was in 1483. And before that, the most recent prior was in 1452 during the War of the Roses.
    • drcongo27 minutes ago
      Blimey, he's older than he looks.
  • petepete2 hours ago
    Series 7 of The Crown will be fun.
  • sohrob2 hours ago
    Meanwhile in the States, their government is doxxing the victims and masking the identities of the perpetrators.
  • adaml_6232 hours ago
    As always when reading about these stories I have two questions:

    * When did other high profile people know about this illegal and immoral behavior

    * Who else is getting away with similar behavior right now

    • BLKNSLVRan hour ago
      I also kinda have the question of: Who is the new Jeffrey Epstein?

      Nature abhors a vacuum, and it seems the space that Epstein filled was large and branching and significantly profitable (in money, information, and influence). There's no way there isn't at least one other person that's started to fill the void.

      Ideally, the ramifications of association with Epstein should shrink the size of the vacuum considerably, but the pursuit of those associates has really only just started and, as someone else has already pointed out, some countries / governments are protecting these associates rather than investigating / prosecuting. As such, there's not much discouragement yet.

    • bell-cotan hour ago
      1 - Assume it was decades ago. That I've heard, a fair number of the released emails mentioned Jeff's 2008 conviction. But to paraphrase Leona Helmsley, "only the little people need to follow laws". That attitude seems to be very common in the emails.

      2 - Isn't it convenient that zero major news organizations - controlled by high profile people and their buddies - are raising that issue? Not that I believe there to be any public support for competent & systematic enforcement of the laws against such behavior. That I've heard of, nobody even cares about how Jeff got off with a slap on the wrist in 2008.

  • rkachowski2 hours ago
    They're purposefully being vague, but this is Prince Andrew finally facing consequences in the face of the Epstein files (?)
    • OJFord2 hours ago
      How is it vague? If you mean by not saying 'Prince Andrew', that's because he's already been stripped of that title.
    • brazzy2 hours ago
      Former prince. And t's not purposefully vague, the article explicitly says "It comes after Thames Valley Police said they were assessing a complaint over the alleged sharing of confidential material by the former prince with late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein"
      • vhodges2 hours ago
        If you read through the BBC post, it alludes to passing confidential trade documents to Epstein... but of course that's probably because he was being blackmailed by Epstein for f*cking under age girls.
        • a_paddyan hour ago
          Who said blackmailed? They were friends, it was just a guy giving another guy insider information about a business opportunity.
    • Grum943 minutes ago
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  • bell-cot2 hours ago
    It would be lovely if the Brits could truly clean house on this issue.

    (Sadly, expecting the Yanks to follow their lead on that would be pure fantasy.)

  • adaml_6232 hours ago
    The abuse perpetratored by Epstein is obviously hideous but is there an argument that his corporate and government espionage activities need to be looked at as a clear organized criminal conspiracy?
    • iso16312 hours ago
      They got Al Capone on tax fraud
  • benbojangles2 hours ago
    And this is of course tech related because??? If I wanted news I would just check my RSS feed.
  • asdefghyk2 hours ago
    Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office