Andrew will have a sweat on now – and we bet Mandelson is too

[andrew mandelson]

In his 2019 BBC *Newsnight* [interview][1], former prince Andrew notoriously claimed that Virginia Giuffre’s allegations against him couldn’t be true because he’s unable to sweat.

He’s likely to have discovered a few sweat glands since his [arrest][2] this morning.

All too typically for the British establishment, the arrest was not for sexually abusing trafficked and potentially under-age girls. Instead it was for ‘misconduct in public office’, after an Epstein files release revealed Mountbatten-Windsor was allegedly bunging [sensitive secret information][3] to the serial child-rapist while a UK trade envoy.

That fact is a disgusting betrayal of Epstein’s and Andrew’s victims. It’s also a detail that is likely to have ‘prince of darkness’ and former Starmer adviser Peter Mandelson joining Windsor in a sweat bath. The same release of Epstein files [also revealed ‘Mandy’ repeatedly doing the same thing][4]: sending sensitive, confidential and highly lucrative government information to Epstein. This information would have enabled Epstein and his mates to make a fortune in ‘insider trading’.

The British establishment deciding to throw ‘Randy Andy’ under the bus for that instead of his alleged crimes against trafficked girls should have ‘Mandy’ in a lather too.

For more on the the Epstein Files and the betrayal of victims, please read the *Canary’s* [article][5] on way that the media circus around Epstein is erasing the experiences of victims and survivors.

*Featured image via the Canary*

By [Skwawkbox][6]

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/y_8YNc-Aro8
[2]: https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/02/19/andrew-birthday-arrest/
[3]: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c70kjr9wjw0t?post=asset%3Afa8c285a-99f0-4969-be71-ec718fc6493f#post
[4]: https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/02/03/mandelson-insider-trading/
[5]: https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2026/02/04/epstein-victims-2/
[6]: https://www.thecanary.co/author/skwawkbox/


https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/02/19/mandelson-andrew/