From The Times and The Sunday Times, this is the story on Saturday.
I'm Manvine Rana.
Among the thousands of lurid exchanges between Jeffrey Epstein and his rich and influential friends,
there lies a lesson in how powerful men talk about women when they think no one's listening.
Some of these men are still in positions of power.
The Times writer Helen Rumbolo spent two days going through these emails and reveals not only the vile contents,
but what she thinks can be learnt from the shocking misogyny they capture.
As you can imagine, this episode contains some very strong language, some of which will spare you.
But among the reams of articles written about Epstein in the last week, this one really stood out.
It caught an essential truth at the heart of the whole scandal.
So in case you missed it, we asked Helen to read it out.
Here she is.
To enter the Epstein files, as I did one bleak Sunday evening, a pop-up asks, Are you 18 or over?
If you click yes, the United States Department of Justice website responds,
Thank you for verifying your age.
Is this a joke?
A meta commentary on how little we do to prevent harm to children.
As the hours of my time on the site turned into days,
I started to see those files themselves as a Rosetta Stone through which women might understand male power.
Powerful men often have their identities in the email and message chains redacted.