Ben McKenna is Unwell
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Digital information and infrastructure consultant. Southerner in the north, builds things both virtual and real, accidental gardener and 🏴🇮🇪🇪🇸 mongrel. North London is red, and so am I. ¡Venceremos!
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Peter Mandelson, you say?
February 1, 2026 at 10:40 PM
Peter Mandelson, you say?
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My dear friend Nader alerted me to two Iranian members of the Arsenal family, Aref Jafarzadeh and Amir Housein, who were killed while seeking freedom in Iran. We remember them. ❤️
February 1, 2026 at 9:04 PM
My dear friend Nader alerted me to two Iranian members of the Arsenal family, Aref Jafarzadeh and Amir Housein, who were killed while seeking freedom in Iran. We remember them. ❤️
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Gonna reiterate: Even if you have never ONCE cared about rap, F.D Signifier's vid about the Drake/Kendrick beef is absolutely essential watching. Shakespearean plot arc. Amazing cultural moment, it'll be its own college course one day.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEsf...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEsf...
February 1, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Gonna reiterate: Even if you have never ONCE cared about rap, F.D Signifier's vid about the Drake/Kendrick beef is absolutely essential watching. Shakespearean plot arc. Amazing cultural moment, it'll be its own college course one day.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEsf...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEsf...
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To the tune of "I am the very model of a modern major general":
🎶Thiel is a walking antidote to modern multiversity
He's stolen all your data and knows lots about perversity,
He weighs in on democracy and matters mathematical
And bought your last election with his weighty venture capital🎶
🎶Thiel is a walking antidote to modern multiversity
He's stolen all your data and knows lots about perversity,
He weighs in on democracy and matters mathematical
And bought your last election with his weighty venture capital🎶
On that Everything is Connected front, especially malign forces, this from Nigel Farage’s senior adviser Cambridge Professor James Orr: “What a privilege to host Peter Thiel…for a stunningly original and erudite series of lectures.
“Thiel is a walking antidote to the modern multiversity. “
“Thiel is a walking antidote to the modern multiversity. “
February 1, 2026 at 8:12 PM
To the tune of "I am the very model of a modern major general":
🎶Thiel is a walking antidote to modern multiversity
He's stolen all your data and knows lots about perversity,
He weighs in on democracy and matters mathematical
And bought your last election with his weighty venture capital🎶
🎶Thiel is a walking antidote to modern multiversity
He's stolen all your data and knows lots about perversity,
He weighs in on democracy and matters mathematical
And bought your last election with his weighty venture capital🎶
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**original Grange Hill theme plays**
February 1, 2026 at 5:26 PM
**original Grange Hill theme plays**
I hardly recognise Thomas Frank’s spurs team. A normal spurs team losing two nil at half time with the crowd in open revolt would be really, really funny.
I want my spurs back.
I want my spurs back.
February 1, 2026 at 5:17 PM
I hardly recognise Thomas Frank’s spurs team. A normal spurs team losing two nil at half time with the crowd in open revolt would be really, really funny.
I want my spurs back.
I want my spurs back.
10/10 no notes 👌🏼
Zack Polanski on Laura K this morning:
"Gaza is only a divisive subject if you're taking money from arms dealers..."
"Gaza is only a divisive subject if you're taking money from arms dealers..."
February 1, 2026 at 1:53 PM
10/10 no notes 👌🏼
Lads, we already know this Labour party is more comfortable with a Reform victory, because they’re more comfortable with Reform’s politics than they are the Greens’.
This is grim-Labour MPs saying they prefer a Reform win in Gorton & Denton than The Greens: Reform is worse for the country, but the Greens are be worse for their careers. They want Reform to do well so they can use them as a threat to force folk to vote Labour www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
February 1, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Lads, we already know this Labour party is more comfortable with a Reform victory, because they’re more comfortable with Reform’s politics than they are the Greens’.
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They've had all these files for years and did nothing. Tell me again how any of the people in power give a shit about women and girls...
This isn't Democrat v Republican or Tory v Labour, it's the rich and powerful v everybody else. It couldn't be simpler or clearer.
This isn't Democrat v Republican or Tory v Labour, it's the rich and powerful v everybody else. It couldn't be simpler or clearer.
January 31, 2026 at 8:47 AM
They've had all these files for years and did nothing. Tell me again how any of the people in power give a shit about women and girls...
This isn't Democrat v Republican or Tory v Labour, it's the rich and powerful v everybody else. It couldn't be simpler or clearer.
This isn't Democrat v Republican or Tory v Labour, it's the rich and powerful v everybody else. It couldn't be simpler or clearer.
You ever think it’s weird that the only sanctions Mandelson seems to have got was the revocation of his billionaire pedo play dates?
Steve Reed is asked if Mandelson should be kicked out of the PLP & be stripped of his peerage
Reed pretends the issue is about whether money was properly declared, rather than taking money from a billionaire paedophile & appearing to say you'll try to change govt policy for him
Reed pretends the issue is about whether money was properly declared, rather than taking money from a billionaire paedophile & appearing to say you'll try to change govt policy for him
February 1, 2026 at 10:05 AM
You ever think it’s weird that the only sanctions Mandelson seems to have got was the revocation of his billionaire pedo play dates?
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In case this goes over some heads, the 'black and tans' were Britain's paramilitary police in Ireland during the War of Independence.
After years of burning out whole towns and murdering innocent people, many went straight to Palestine to do the very same, preparing the way for Israeli takeover.
After years of burning out whole towns and murdering innocent people, many went straight to Palestine to do the very same, preparing the way for Israeli takeover.
January 31, 2026 at 9:50 AM
In case this goes over some heads, the 'black and tans' were Britain's paramilitary police in Ireland during the War of Independence.
After years of burning out whole towns and murdering innocent people, many went straight to Palestine to do the very same, preparing the way for Israeli takeover.
After years of burning out whole towns and murdering innocent people, many went straight to Palestine to do the very same, preparing the way for Israeli takeover.
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The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll
January 30, 2026 at 11:21 PM
The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll
Florian Wirtz is beginning to become the Leverkusen Wirtz, and the rest of the PL should be very worried about that.
January 31, 2026 at 9:29 PM
Florian Wirtz is beginning to become the Leverkusen Wirtz, and the rest of the PL should be very worried about that.
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Apparently there was scenes this evening 😂
January 31, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Apparently there was scenes this evening 😂
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Three months into the genocide, the Biden administration blocked evidence of "bones on the roads, dead bodies abandoned in cars and 'catastrophic human needs, particularly for food and safe drinking water'" from becoming widely distributed in the US government because it "lacked balance".
US envoys to Israel blocked early warning of 'Apocalyptic Wasteland' in Gaza
U.S. Agency for International Development staffers in early 2024 drafted a warning to senior officials in Joe Biden’s administration: Northern Gaza had turned into an “Apocalyptic Wasteland” with dire...
www.reuters.com
January 31, 2026 at 7:58 PM
Three months into the genocide, the Biden administration blocked evidence of "bones on the roads, dead bodies abandoned in cars and 'catastrophic human needs, particularly for food and safe drinking water'" from becoming widely distributed in the US government because it "lacked balance".
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January 19, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Nobody wants to see scenes like this.
January 31, 2026 at 7:27 PM
Nobody wants to see scenes like this.
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I know Starmer is currently in Japan but it is baffling that Mandelson is still a Labour Peer a day after we learn that his spouse was being paid a regular retainer by an international child trafficking rapist blackmailer.
January 31, 2026 at 6:39 PM
I know Starmer is currently in Japan but it is baffling that Mandelson is still a Labour Peer a day after we learn that his spouse was being paid a regular retainer by an international child trafficking rapist blackmailer.
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January 31, 2026 at 6:38 PM
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Peter Mandelson is still a Labour member.
Peter Mandelson is still a member of the House of Lords
Peter Mandelson is still a salaried* Labour representative.
Peter Mandelson is still a member of the House of Lords
Peter Mandelson is still a salaried* Labour representative.
January 31, 2026 at 9:26 AM
Peter Mandelson is still a Labour member.
Peter Mandelson is still a member of the House of Lords
Peter Mandelson is still a salaried* Labour representative.
Peter Mandelson is still a member of the House of Lords
Peter Mandelson is still a salaried* Labour representative.
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My fave Kubrick anecdote: David Prowse on acting in A Clockwork Orange:
'So you want me to carry Patrick Magee, who weighs 17Olbs, plus the wheelchair, another 30lbs, so 200lbs, down the stairs & then do a dialogue scene?'
'Yeah, you can do it.'
'I know but your name isn't One Take Kubrick, is it?'
'So you want me to carry Patrick Magee, who weighs 17Olbs, plus the wheelchair, another 30lbs, so 200lbs, down the stairs & then do a dialogue scene?'
'Yeah, you can do it.'
'I know but your name isn't One Take Kubrick, is it?'
January 31, 2026 at 5:24 PM
My fave Kubrick anecdote: David Prowse on acting in A Clockwork Orange:
'So you want me to carry Patrick Magee, who weighs 17Olbs, plus the wheelchair, another 30lbs, so 200lbs, down the stairs & then do a dialogue scene?'
'Yeah, you can do it.'
'I know but your name isn't One Take Kubrick, is it?'
'So you want me to carry Patrick Magee, who weighs 17Olbs, plus the wheelchair, another 30lbs, so 200lbs, down the stairs & then do a dialogue scene?'
'Yeah, you can do it.'
'I know but your name isn't One Take Kubrick, is it?'
It is genuinely impressive just how many people in today’s Labour Party seem to be employed in the field of extracting public money into private hands.
Who is Labour's candidate Angeliki Stogia for Gorton & Denton?
She is Stakeholder Engagement and Communications lead for Arup, focusing in finding funding and state support for private Energy and Rail contracts.
Do you really want to vote Labour's Margaret Thatcher in?
She is Stakeholder Engagement and Communications lead for Arup, focusing in finding funding and state support for private Energy and Rail contracts.
Do you really want to vote Labour's Margaret Thatcher in?
January 31, 2026 at 6:27 PM
It is genuinely impressive just how many people in today’s Labour Party seem to be employed in the field of extracting public money into private hands.
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Well yeah they didn't want to prosecute their friends
I'm beginning to think when biden said to a room full of rich donors "nothing will fundamentally change" he wasn't just talking about capitalism, he was saying don't worry guys you can keep committing all those heinous crimes
I'm beginning to think when biden said to a room full of rich donors "nothing will fundamentally change" he wasn't just talking about capitalism, he was saying don't worry guys you can keep committing all those heinous crimes
The thing that shocks me most is that all of this incriminating stuff was sitting at the DOJ for 4 years and Biden & Garland were not cynical or ruthless enough to use it against Trump & Musk in the run up to 2024.
If only they were the evil ‘weaponizers of government’ that MAGA claimed they were!
If only they were the evil ‘weaponizers of government’ that MAGA claimed they were!
January 31, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Well yeah they didn't want to prosecute their friends
I'm beginning to think when biden said to a room full of rich donors "nothing will fundamentally change" he wasn't just talking about capitalism, he was saying don't worry guys you can keep committing all those heinous crimes
I'm beginning to think when biden said to a room full of rich donors "nothing will fundamentally change" he wasn't just talking about capitalism, he was saying don't worry guys you can keep committing all those heinous crimes
Always good to see Jesus smiling
a statue of jesus is giving a thumbs up in front of a building .
Alt: a statue of jesus is giving a thumbs up in front of a building .
media.tenor.com
January 31, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Always good to see Jesus smiling