Ash Sarkar

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Pod Save the UK · Are we stuck in never-ending political scandal? w/Ash Sarkar · 26 Feb 2026 podcast

But why is this the norm?

And I think this is such an important thing because I don't know if you feel this, but I really fucking hate my own profession.

And I hate just how most people work in it because there is this herd mentality of, well, until it's the story, we're not going to talk about it.

So when it comes to Mandelson and Epstein, and again, what was already known, so it was out there.

it was out there.

And there were very few people who brought it up.

There was the Financial Times.

And then there were also a couple of my colleagues who were chasing Mandelson around Labour Party conference being like, yo, what's the deal with your relationship with Epstein?

Everyone else, when he was appointed US ambassador, basically were like, oh, what a cunning move by Keir Starmer.

This is really going to boil the left's piss.

And it wasn't until that buildup to September where Mandelson was forced out of the role that

that the lobby, who are the sort of elite, you know, death commandos of Westminster correspondence, that was only when they began to give a shit about it.

And I've got an idea of why.

And again, I write about this in the book, but the way in which the incentives align, right?

You want access.

So why would you prejudice or endanger, sorry, the access that you could receive from important people by reporting on them well?

And then there's also just this group thing, right?

And there's a sort of negative polarisation, which is you have journalists in the lobby who look at social media because everyone's a social media addict and they go, people I don't like are bringing this up, right?

You know, someone with the, you know, username Jeremy Corbyn for life is saying this, therefore it must be completely ridiculous.

And so they judge their own credibility on the basis of who they think are people

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