1. An expert explains the Epstein files:

2. Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s social Ponzi scheme.

• New emails reveal the child sex offender’s ability to fulfil the wants and needs of some of the world’s richest and most powerful people.
• While the core of the Epstein saga will always be his web of sexual abusers and the women and girls they preyed on, every new set of messages reveals the staggering range of his social network and the relationships he was able to sustain.
• Epstein’s emails read like a self-help group for the 0.01 per cent. How did a college dropout from a working-class family in Brooklyn manage to do it?
• Fame, power, sex and crime — the Epstein files are likely to reverberate for a generation, especially given the legion of questions about his abuse of women and the source of his money that remain unanswered.
• The payments Epstein made to high-profile individuals are becoming clearer with each new release of documents from his estate. But the source of his own funds remains shrouded in mystery, except in one case.

3. Epstein’s original little black book.

4. Some outstanding questions which might not ever be properly answered. Click here for informed, if not necessarily correct, answers . . .

• Was Epstein a Russian spy? Possibly.
• Do the Russian have kompromat on Trump? – Probably.
• Is Trump a Russian asset? – Hard to see him doing more for their benefit, if he isn’t.