{"id":3629,"date":"2026-03-02T09:52:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T10:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aibih.org\/?p=3629"},"modified":"2026-04-10T09:55:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T09:55:29","slug":"how-do-dodgy-political-appointments-like-mandelson-actually-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aibih.org\/index.php\/2026\/03\/02\/how-do-dodgy-political-appointments-like-mandelson-actually-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"How do dodgy political appointments like Mandelson actually happen?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The headaches for Keir Starmer just keep coming. As the fallout from Peter Mandelson\u2019s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein continues, <a href=\"\/news\/uk\/politics\/keir-starmer-judgement-peer-suspended-b2929682.html\">two more Labour peers who were recently appointed to the House of Lords have been embroiled in their own scandals.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The headaches for Keir Starmer just keep coming. As the fallout from Peter Mandelson\u2019s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein continues, two more Labour peers who were recently appointed to the House of Lords have been embroiled in their own scandals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/aibih.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3629"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/aibih.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/aibih.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aibih.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aibih.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/aibih.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3630,"href":"http:\/\/aibih.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3629\/revisions\/3630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aibih.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/aibih.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aibih.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aibih.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}