Weekly Perspective

 

  Happy Valentine's Day

 For this special edition of " Virtual Route 99 ", our team chose this from James O'Brien earlier in the week as he discussed Peter Mandelson , Boris Johnson , Nigel Farage , and what he noted as the Four Donkeys of the Apocalypse :    Brexit , Boris Johnson, Liz Truss & Austerity , and thoughts on Sir Keir Starmer  & a late breaking development as the UK Prime Minsiter's Job seems to be safe, for now: 

The team at the Rest is Politics , Alistair Campbell and Rory Stewart ,  comments on the Sex Trafficker Jeffrey Epstein (convicted of child prostitution in 2009) , and the relationship he had with  Peter Mandelson   (as he had leaked Sensitive UK Government Secrets to Epstein and even stayed at the Epstein Apartment in New York City while Epstein was in prison for Sex Trafficking and as Mandelson took money from Epstein) , and the bigger  threat to Democracy around the World by oligrachs .     Peter Mandelson has resigned as a member of the Labor Party in the UK and the UK House of Lords as investigations in the United States continue with Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton set to testify before the US House of Representatives .   We also present the following courtesy the team at the New Statesman on Mandelson and Epstein along with thoughts from the Daily Telegraph and speculating whether...

 

 As we begin a new month, our team pulled together a discourse of #RandomThoughts On Our World on the Iranian Revolution of 2026 , the first year of the Trump Administration ,  Europe and other thoughts  as we look forward to the continued privilege to serve: