Ben McKenna is Unwell
@benmckenna.bsky.social
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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People of Leeds and surrounding.
We got a small crew doing a big ancient woodland restoration job 7th and 8th February and I need a LOT more of you to mangle all this rhododendron.
Address – Weston Woods, Weston Lane, Weston, N Yorks. LS21 2HW W3W
www.protect.earth/events/otley...
We got a small crew doing a big ancient woodland restoration job 7th and 8th February and I need a LOT more of you to mangle all this rhododendron.
Address – Weston Woods, Weston Lane, Weston, N Yorks. LS21 2HW W3W
www.protect.earth/events/otley...
Volunteers Wanted for Rhododendron Removal near Otley, West Yorkshire — Protect Earth
www.protect.earth
February 4, 2026 at 9:05 PM
People of Leeds and surrounding.
We got a small crew doing a big ancient woodland restoration job 7th and 8th February and I need a LOT more of you to mangle all this rhododendron.
Address – Weston Woods, Weston Lane, Weston, N Yorks. LS21 2HW W3W
www.protect.earth/events/otley...
We got a small crew doing a big ancient woodland restoration job 7th and 8th February and I need a LOT more of you to mangle all this rhododendron.
Address – Weston Woods, Weston Lane, Weston, N Yorks. LS21 2HW W3W
www.protect.earth/events/otley...
It is, it would seem, all coming out now.
Alex Burghart MP has now called for a review of the circumstances around the award of Palantir's £240m defence contract, and asked why Mandelson's visit to Palantir's offices in Washington was kept off the books while the company was being represented by his firm, Global Council.
🔴‘Peter Mandelson’s Fixing of Keir Starmer’s Visit to Spytech Firm Palantir Raises Serious Questions’
Palantir was represented by a lobbying firm founded by Mandelson, Iain Overton and Max Colbert report
bylinetimes.com/2025/04/25/p...
Palantir was represented by a lobbying firm founded by Mandelson, Iain Overton and Max Colbert report
bylinetimes.com/2025/04/25/p...
February 4, 2026 at 8:04 PM
It is, it would seem, all coming out now.
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The Gorton & Denton by-election is Green vs Reform.
February 4, 2026 at 12:02 PM
The Gorton & Denton by-election is Green vs Reform.
Of course, Jeremy Corbyn is too nice and decent to point out that he wouldn't have been stupid enough to appoint Mandelson as ambassador to the US for services rendered.
@jeremycorbyn.bsky.social : "The question is, fundamentally, one for the Prime Minister.. I cannot believe that when he was about to appoint Mandelson he wasn't made fully aware of all of Mandelsons record.. he would have known.."
February 4, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Of course, Jeremy Corbyn is too nice and decent to point out that he wouldn't have been stupid enough to appoint Mandelson as ambassador to the US for services rendered.
I’m not a headwear guy - I look like a simpleton in hats and I have a decent head of hair - but I always find myself fascinated by just how uniform hats, the exact same hat at that, were.
February 4, 2026 at 3:49 PM
I’m not a headwear guy - I look like a simpleton in hats and I have a decent head of hair - but I always find myself fascinated by just how uniform hats, the exact same hat at that, were.
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So when we all sober up are we going to realise what this is all about and why mcsweeney is protected. And why no transcripts were taken and this bypassed parliament
Just checking in, that we are aligned
Just checking in, that we are aligned
Mandelson’s embassy fixed Starmer’s visit to spytech firm | Good Law Project
The British Ambassador to the United States is at the centre of a web connecting Palantir and the prime minister. But what did they all discuss?
goodlawproject.org
February 4, 2026 at 2:41 PM
So when we all sober up are we going to realise what this is all about and why mcsweeney is protected. And why no transcripts were taken and this bypassed parliament
Just checking in, that we are aligned
Just checking in, that we are aligned
One thing I've learned from my relationship with my partner, is never EVER cross a gobby northern redhead.
February 4, 2026 at 2:25 PM
One thing I've learned from my relationship with my partner, is never EVER cross a gobby northern redhead.
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Pleased to see the jury make this decision.
We need to have eyes wide open this is exactly why the Government wants to abolish juries.
People protesting against a genocide are not the criminals here - it's the politicians who continue to provide cover.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
We need to have eyes wide open this is exactly why the Government wants to abolish juries.
People protesting against a genocide are not the criminals here - it's the politicians who continue to provide cover.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Palestine Action protesters not guilty of defence firm burglary
The group are cleared of aggravated burglary over the alleged raid at an Elbit Systems warehouse.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 4, 2026 at 12:54 PM
Pleased to see the jury make this decision.
We need to have eyes wide open this is exactly why the Government wants to abolish juries.
People protesting against a genocide are not the criminals here - it's the politicians who continue to provide cover.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
We need to have eyes wide open this is exactly why the Government wants to abolish juries.
People protesting against a genocide are not the criminals here - it's the politicians who continue to provide cover.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sorry, but I would've sacked him for dressing like Trigger from Only Fools and Horses.
The growing Mandelson scandal has resulted in renewed pressure on the position of Keir Starmer's chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, who was instrumental in the decision to bring him into government, reports PolHome's Tom Scotson
Starmer Faces Renewed Pressure To Remove Chief Of Staff Over Mandelson Affair
Prime Minister Keir Starmer is under pressure from Labour MPs to sack his chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, over his role in the appointment of Pet...
www.politicshome.com
February 4, 2026 at 12:21 PM
Sorry, but I would've sacked him for dressing like Trigger from Only Fools and Horses.
Last time I did one of these it got me blocked by Mick Hucknall, but it is absolutely Fairground by Simply Red.
Fuck your favourite song. Tell me your least favourite song. The one that makes you die inside the moment you hear the first 3 seconds.
February 4, 2026 at 9:46 AM
Last time I did one of these it got me blocked by Mick Hucknall, but it is absolutely Fairground by Simply Red.
The Westminster commentariat doing the whole 'We knew he was dodgy, but we didn't know he was THIS dodgy' thing is a bit galling, isn't it?
We knew he was THIS dodgy, how did you - a person whose job it is to know about politics - not know that?!
We knew he was THIS dodgy, how did you - a person whose job it is to know about politics - not know that?!
February 4, 2026 at 9:40 AM
The Westminster commentariat doing the whole 'We knew he was dodgy, but we didn't know he was THIS dodgy' thing is a bit galling, isn't it?
We knew he was THIS dodgy, how did you - a person whose job it is to know about politics - not know that?!
We knew he was THIS dodgy, how did you - a person whose job it is to know about politics - not know that?!
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Suuuuuper, super Kev 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Remembering Kevin Campbell, who would have been 56 today
A true gentleman & a fantastic player
Sorely missed, but never forgotten 🙏
A true gentleman & a fantastic player
Sorely missed, but never forgotten 🙏
February 4, 2026 at 8:52 AM
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Suuuuuper, super Kev 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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Me watching Rice and Grealish play for England at Euro 2020
Irish Traitors is incredible.
February 3, 2026 at 9:23 PM
Me watching Rice and Grealish play for England at Euro 2020
Watching the football with my kid and I complained to her about the annoying whiny drone sound in the stadium.
“Dad, that’s Gary Neville”
McKenna DNA
“Dad, that’s Gary Neville”
McKenna DNA
February 3, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Watching the football with my kid and I complained to her about the annoying whiny drone sound in the stadium.
“Dad, that’s Gary Neville”
McKenna DNA
“Dad, that’s Gary Neville”
McKenna DNA
I’m so desperately confused. Why are they in balaclavas? Are the price tags a comment on the soaring price of balaclavas?
February 3, 2026 at 7:56 PM
I’m so desperately confused. Why are they in balaclavas? Are the price tags a comment on the soaring price of balaclavas?
On one hand it’s incredibly hard to get bothered about the Rumbelows, but on the other hand it *is* Chelsea who were playing.
Horrible bastards to a man. Get into ‘em!
Horrible bastards to a man. Get into ‘em!
February 3, 2026 at 7:53 PM
On one hand it’s incredibly hard to get bothered about the Rumbelows, but on the other hand it *is* Chelsea who were playing.
Horrible bastards to a man. Get into ‘em!
Horrible bastards to a man. Get into ‘em!
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This is lily-livered. I absolutely don’t respect but understand if Pochettino doesn’t want to talk about politics and just wants to focus on football, but what’s all this ‘we’ business? If other players and managers have more of social conscience and moral backbone than Pochettino, good for them.
February 3, 2026 at 7:16 PM
This is lily-livered. I absolutely don’t respect but understand if Pochettino doesn’t want to talk about politics and just wants to focus on football, but what’s all this ‘we’ business? If other players and managers have more of social conscience and moral backbone than Pochettino, good for them.
I’m fine calling him Peter Mountbatten-Windsor
Soon, he’ll lose his title, and be known just as plain Mr Peter Mandelson, the former Prince of Darkness
February 3, 2026 at 7:11 PM
I’m fine calling him Peter Mountbatten-Windsor
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Spanish PM Sánchez: The owner of X, himself a migrant, used his personal account to amplify disinformation about the sovereign decision of my government to regularize 500,000 migrants who live, work, and contribute to the success of our country.
February 3, 2026 at 12:10 PM
Spanish PM Sánchez: The owner of X, himself a migrant, used his personal account to amplify disinformation about the sovereign decision of my government to regularize 500,000 migrants who live, work, and contribute to the success of our country.
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Peston here, pretending not to know Mandelson had been advising Sir Kier since the late 2010s. the media class determined to help Sir Kier cut Mandelson loose to obscure their own malfeasance.
February 3, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Peston here, pretending not to know Mandelson had been advising Sir Kier since the late 2010s. the media class determined to help Sir Kier cut Mandelson loose to obscure their own malfeasance.
Look at these names. Viscount Taaaaaffe and Baron Ballymote. I’m sorry, but Britain is not a real country.
Mandelson faces being the 1st person to lose their peerage title via an Act of Parliament in 109 yrs. It was last used in 1917 to remove it from a quartet for siding with Britain's WW1 enemies. It would put him in the same pub quiz answer as Henry Taaffe, 12 th Viscount Taaffe and Baron Ballymote.
February 3, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Look at these names. Viscount Taaaaaffe and Baron Ballymote. I’m sorry, but Britain is not a real country.
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They say boys and girls can't play sports together yet here we see them excelling at Co-Ed Nazi Punching.
MAGA Adult Male assaults Texas High School students protesting ICE
February 3, 2026 at 5:31 PM
They say boys and girls can't play sports together yet here we see them excelling at Co-Ed Nazi Punching.
I'm still not sure whether it's a good or a bad idea to reduce your whole, entire electoral offer down to one policy, but Reform have absolutely done it here.
'Fuck them kids, my pint is slightly cheaper' feels very much like the brexit boomer Facebook uncle's maxim to live life by.
'Fuck them kids, my pint is slightly cheaper' feels very much like the brexit boomer Facebook uncle's maxim to live life by.
NEW: Reform UK says it would re-impose the two-child benefit cap - scrapped by Labour - for most families to fund £3bn support package for pubs.
February 3, 2026 at 4:20 PM
I'm still not sure whether it's a good or a bad idea to reduce your whole, entire electoral offer down to one policy, but Reform have absolutely done it here.
'Fuck them kids, my pint is slightly cheaper' feels very much like the brexit boomer Facebook uncle's maxim to live life by.
'Fuck them kids, my pint is slightly cheaper' feels very much like the brexit boomer Facebook uncle's maxim to live life by.