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What you didn’t know about the Epstein files

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🗓️ 12 February 2026

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

It’s been almost a fortnight since the release of the Epstein files, and since then we’ve learned a lot about the disgraced financier’s connections to the rich and powerful. But what more have we learned about Jeffrey Epstein himself? Was he a foreign spy? And what do the files tell us about how the world is really run? 


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Guest: Josie Ensor, chief US reporter, The Times. 

Host: Manveen Rana. 

Producers: Micaela Arneson, Olivia Case. 

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0:00.0

From the Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story. I'm Manvine Rana.

0:09.3

It's almost two weeks now since the new tranche of Epstein files were released by the US Department of Justice

0:16.5

and landed like a grenade in middle of the British establishment.

0:22.5

Morgan McSweeney, Downing Street, Chief of Staff, has resigned.

0:27.3

He had advised the Prime Minister to appoint Mandelson, despite his ties to Geoffrey Epstein.

0:31.8

His time as Director of Communications, Tim Allen, has now also resigned.

0:35.9

Another one of those people who worked very closely with Peter Manderson.

0:39.7

After revelations from the latest tranche of Epstein Fowles became clear,

0:44.5

the pressure has been mounting on the UK's Prime Minister,

0:47.8

Sekeir Stama, to stand down.

0:50.4

New emails uncovered overnight appeared to show Andrew

0:53.1

when he was Britain's trade ambassador

0:55.0

was sending confidential documents via his office straight to Geoffrey Epstein.

1:00.3

Thames Valley Police said it was reviewing the files.

1:04.5

The Epstein files have convulsed the British system.

1:08.7

The police have launched investigations into a former prince and a former

1:13.3

minister, both of whom deny any wrongdoing. Buckingham Palace has expressed horror and offered

1:19.4

to help, and after a series of resignations at the heart of number 10, and amid a clamour of

1:25.7

public outrage, the files almost took down the Prime Minister.

1:31.4

A man who'd never even met Geoffrey Epstein, who didn't appear in the files, but was

1:36.7

criticised for his misjudgment in trusting somebody who did.

1:43.0

Meanwhile, in America, where Epstein was based and where much of his network was formed, relative silence.

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