Nicola Talent

And of course, we shouldn't be reading these emails or this, you know, because these are usually privileged.

But you get a sense of how Tweed is working in the background for these powerful clients.

And I think that the point of this story and the reason this is so important is it shows how powerful people are.

can use the legal system against the media in order to shut down the exposure of the kind of scandals that this is.

He's just willing to... Yeah, he wants to damage limitation around his reputation.

Now, this is the most interesting thing I would have thought.

And this is really maybe just the kind of the train spotters media and lawyers would find interesting.

But

Tweed is failing really to get anywhere.

So he tries another tactic and he tells Epstein that he's an idea to, quote, crack this open by the back door, so to speak.

And he says that he has a generally good relationship with the legal managers of The Guardian, The Times and The Sunday Times, which also had called Epstein a paedophile.

He said that indeed, quote, The Sunday Times often retain me if only to stop me suing them.

And it may be that I could pursue one or both of them to publish a clarification which they could use as leverage in relation to the other publications.

If nothing else, that has to be embarrassing for Tweed and the legal managers of those mighty organs of truth and justice.

Yeah.

It is.

And there's been a lot of, you know, pressure put on politicians to sort of change the libel laws to make it a bit of a more fair playing field.

Because we do adhere to very strict rules.

you know, codes of conducts and, you know, we are, we really have to get things right.

How long has it been discussed for?