To join the upper echelons of the global political class, they must have kompromat on you. By Mark Steyn.
It was my former colleague James Delingpole who first told me that the people who really run the world possessed kompromat on everybody else, and you weren’t allowed to advance into the upper echelons of the global political class unless they had something on you. …
That seems to be as good an explanation as any as to how we wound up with the likes of Biden, Macron, Trudeau, Johnson, etc.
One notes, inter alia, that, with respect to the current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, last week was also the week that the fifth twink dropped. Why every Ukrainian “male model” on the books of Mayfair agencies wants to incinerate Keir Starmer is an interesting question, although evidently not to Fleet Street’s investigative reporters.
Still, Sir Keir’s appetite for Slav lovelies is far from an outlier. Apparently, being the bloke who gave the world Windows 98 doesn’t pull the birds like it used to, so even Bill Gates required assistance from Mr Epstein. We learn from the emails that Bill picked up an “STD” from one of his “Russian girls” and so was anxious to acquire discreetly some antibiotics he could surreptitiously adminster to his wife Melinda just in case she came down with a dose of something. … One begins to understand why the self-appointed Chief Medical Officer to every government on the planet is so anxious to vaccinate the entire globe – a necessary precaution if one is partial to widely travelled “Russian girls”. …

Among the documents are reports of “an orgy with Tony Blair” — not a phrase I would have thought the English language would ever have need for.
But, if you’re wondering why the British political class are so indifferent to the gang-raped working-class girls of every town up and down England, well, it’s clear from a cursory glance at the Epstein files that our rulers are relaxed about the way of the world: under the new class system, there are those who are pleasured and those who do the pleasuring. …
Jeffrey Epstein’s principal skill appears to have been an ability to identify those in proximity to power with certain vulnerabilities. That is a spook’s talent. The reason to invite them — presidents and prime ministers, royal dukes and crown princesses, ambassadors and vaccination crusaders — to a private island is because presumably it’s wired up the wazoo. It would seem obvious that his life was one big honey-trap operation for an intelligence service: because of the contemptuous references to “goyim” in his emails, the presumption is that it’s Mossad; but it could just as easily be Putin’s lads. …
So perhaps the most disturbing thing would be if it were not an intelligence operation — that, from the Clintons in Chappaqua to the Glücksburgs in Oslo, from the Gates-funded World Health Organisation to Starmer-funded Ukrainian rent-boys, this is just how a depraved and degenerate fin de civilisation ruling class carries on, and whaddaya gonna do about it? The perverts will only be replaced by other perverts.
I would really hate to think that the coordinated, almost symphonic response of the Powers that Be to the COVID pandemic was made possible somehow by the discipline enforced through membership in the so-called Epstein Network.
Man would I hate to think that. https://t.co/OSWhXXB5wP
— Walter Kirn (@walterkirn) February 2, 2026