The former Prince Andrew has been destroyed over Epstein. So why is Peter Mandelson, with the same connections, still sitting in power untouched? Right, so Prince Andrew’s out — stripped, erased, repackaged as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor — the royal family finally admitting what everyone else already knew: he was a liability they couldn’t spin their way out of anymore. The King swung the axe, all titles gone, Royal Lodge soon to follow. And yet Peter Mandelson, who spent his own holidays in Jeffrey Epstein’s company and wrote “my best pal” in the man’s birthday book, still floats serenely through Westminster as Lord Mandelson. That’s the state of British morality in one picture: a monarch of all people playing moral referee while an elected government hides behind procedure to avoid doing likewise with Mandelson. Andrew loses his titles to save th ...