A few words on the front page of last Saturday’s Financial Times said an awful lot: “The head of ports operator DP World (one of the world’s largest logistics companies) has resigned over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, joining Goldman Sachs’ top lawyer and a series of business and political figures in quitting over their links to the sex offender. He is one of the most high-powered figures to leave their position since the US Department of Justice released more than three million documents related to Epstein two weeks ago.”

What struck me most was ‘three million’. That, by any yardstick of measurement, is a vast number of documents (including enormous numbers of personal, incriminating, reckless email exchanges) for one man to store. More documents are on the way.

Even the time required to collate, file and then store the stuff would clearly have taken more than one person.

Which, of course, raises the crucial question: who was at the very heart of all of this; what was the real purpose of it all; and why were so many wealthy, powerful, influential and already very successful in their own field people seemingly so easily sucked into the world that Epstein – even if he wasn’t solely responsible for creating it – curated and facilitated.

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