If Mandelson’s toxic legacy can wipe out a whole influence firm this fast, what else have they been doing behind those closed doors? Right, so Interpath has been appointed joint administrator to Peter Mandelson’s infamous firm Global Counsel Ltd and well, that’s going to hurt isn’t it? The firm has stopped trading, the clients have fled, and the people who thought they were buying permanence have just discovered how quickly a business built on reputation dies when the reputation turns into poison. Global Counsel has traded for years on one thing, and it isn’t genius strategy or rare insight, it’s borrowed authority. It’s access dressed up as expertise, the promise that if you pay the right people you don’t have to fight your case in public because you can fight it in rooms you’ll never see, the rooms where power and the people who wield it reside ...