About this episode

The episode discusses the accountability of powerful individuals in the UK compared to the USA, focusing on recent arrests and the effectiveness of the British legal system.

It is a crazy week for the Middle East and the World. For those wanting the Iran War content mentioned at the episode start where Jason appeared on three different podcasts addressing various aspects of the conflict (its congressional illegality; the parallels with the No Fly Zone over Libya; and the Epstein distraction aspects) please consult those links in the shownotes, we think those podcasts are awesome. But back to the matter at hand, Trump certainly knows how to dominate the news cycle but mostly he does so via means that illegal and impeachable in the United States. Why then are the powerful able to be held to account in the UK (e.g. Lord Mandelson and former Prince Andrew) but not in the USA? No one is above the law in Britain. TRULY. Not the Lords, not the Princes of the realm. And Parliamentarians don’t decide who is prosecuted and the Government can’t protect its friends. And this analysis isn’t BS. It is literally vouched for by the people who have designed and operated the current legal system. With the arrest of Lord Mandelson and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, Britons can TRULY say that their legal system does actually seriously investigate powerful people who have…

People in this episode

Host: Jason Pack

Guest: Professor Graham Zellick

Topics covered

• Iran War
• UK justice system
• accountability
• political power
• legal system analysis

Keywords

• Iran War
• Lord Mandelson
• Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor
• UK justice system
• political accountability
• legal system
• Trump news cycle

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Congress, Parliament, UK justice system, United States

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