Cerys Matthews or Orville the Duck: whose voice do you prefer?

I thought Fanny Cradock had passed on, but she seems to be doing Nina Hossain's eye make-up.

The Winter Olympics now have weird new sports with names like "freebasing halfpipe".

Not buying this "Keir Starmer was taken in by a wrong 'un" pish. Keir Starmer is a wrong 'un himself.

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Not a good idea to pretend that list MSPs "didn't get elected", even if they're Tories. AMS is a *vast* improvement on the dysfunctional Westminster FPTP system where various shades of neoliberalism win huge majorities on a third of the vote.

They looked for “Don T” in the Epstein files and redacted all instances, which means they also redacted a lot of “don’t”

The most embarrassing aspect of the e-mails that Mandelson sent to Epstein while he was a Government Minister is that the British Government almost certainly had a copy of them all the time.

The journalists telling you that Jeffrey Epstein worked for Russia are the same ones who told you that the Labour Party had a statistically significant problem with anti-Semitism.

Israel so far today have killed 21 Palestinians, including children

Israel has also canceled the scheduled exit of patients through the Rafah Crossing for today. Many will die as a result of this murderous policy.

Palestine Action are found not guilty for the offence that our government claimed as grounds for proscribing them.

No doubt Mandelson will avoid jail because, well, just because. Instead he loses his peerage, which in his case is akin to a "licence to practice", i.e. rake in even more money because of whom he knows than was already the case.

In 1973 FRG Social Democratic Chancellor Willy Brandt was forced to resign when it was revealed he had unknowingly been employing an Eastern Bloc spy in his office, Günter Guillaume. I wonder if Starmer's insistence that Epstein spied for RU rather than IL might come back and bite him on the bum.

Difficult to say who was the bigger idiot: Keir Starmer, for offering Peter Mandelson the Washington ambassador post; or Mandelson himself for accepting it. #scrutinybites

All the evidence I see on social media suggests that Epstein was working for the Israelis. The received wisdom in mainstream media is that he was working for the Russians. Which is right, and what does it tell us about the people saying it?

1. In 2009 I wrote this. I argued that Peter Mandelson's department “functions as a fifth column within government, working for corporations to undermine democracy and the public interest.”
This thread explains what I saw, and reaches a startling conclusion.🧵
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What is Peter Mandelson better known for?

1️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/y4knt8/1" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Wearing pants
2️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/y4knt8/2" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Being pants

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Peter Mandelson has quit the party he epitomises: grasping, neo-liberal at home, neo-conservative abroad, contemptuous of voters, self-identifying as clever but serially and hopelessly inept.

Peter Mandelson's dementia is immensely sad. Must be terrible to forget huge chunks of your life.

A little more conversation, a little less action. Please. #handsoffiran

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Funny how Starmer is only willing to stand up to Trump when Britain's neo-con credentials are called into question.

Trump: a child, a rapist, and possibly a child rapist.

An attack on Iran would not be about liberating Muslims or women. Western powers are quite happy with those people dying in huge numbers. Rather it will be about easing the way for the full ethnic cleansing of the Gaza Strip, followed in short order by the West Bank.