Jalata
@jalata.bsky.social
European 🇪🇺 Life-long language learner, most recently 🏴 and 🇵🇹 Lover of literature. Deplore the divisions caused by Brexit and the whipping up of xenophobia.
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I’m thinking of another wronged woman today.
Sue Gray.
Downing St began to fall apart after an experienced dedicated civil servant was ousted for Morgan McSweeney.
She opposed Mandelson’s appointment.
Sue Gray.
Downing St began to fall apart after an experienced dedicated civil servant was ousted for Morgan McSweeney.
She opposed Mandelson’s appointment.
February 6, 2026 at 11:28 AM
I’m thinking of another wronged woman today.
Sue Gray.
Downing St began to fall apart after an experienced dedicated civil servant was ousted for Morgan McSweeney.
She opposed Mandelson’s appointment.
Sue Gray.
Downing St began to fall apart after an experienced dedicated civil servant was ousted for Morgan McSweeney.
She opposed Mandelson’s appointment.
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Peter Mandelson – the great genius at the heart of New Labour.
Dominic Cummings – the great genius at the heart of 'Leave'.
Nick Timothy – the great genius at....
Morgan McSweeney – the great....
Steve Hilton...
Can we ban all alleged great geniuses and cast them into outer darkness forever?
Dominic Cummings – the great genius at the heart of 'Leave'.
Nick Timothy – the great genius at....
Morgan McSweeney – the great....
Steve Hilton...
Can we ban all alleged great geniuses and cast them into outer darkness forever?
February 8, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Peter Mandelson – the great genius at the heart of New Labour.
Dominic Cummings – the great genius at the heart of 'Leave'.
Nick Timothy – the great genius at....
Morgan McSweeney – the great....
Steve Hilton...
Can we ban all alleged great geniuses and cast them into outer darkness forever?
Dominic Cummings – the great genius at the heart of 'Leave'.
Nick Timothy – the great genius at....
Morgan McSweeney – the great....
Steve Hilton...
Can we ban all alleged great geniuses and cast them into outer darkness forever?
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I have now officially seen it all. This is a life size tiger made of Tunnock’s Teacake wrappers, at The Smith Gallery, Stirling. I ❤️ #Scotland.
February 6, 2026 at 4:46 PM
I have now officially seen it all. This is a life size tiger made of Tunnock’s Teacake wrappers, at The Smith Gallery, Stirling. I ❤️ #Scotland.
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Studies show 20mph speed limits result in a 34%-40% reduction in fatal or serious injuries on urban roads.
Pedestrian fatality risk drops from 50% at 30mph to just 1.5%–10% at 20mph.
Recent data shows 20mph zones can reduce child fatalities by up to 75%.
Cost savings for NHS & emergency services.
Pedestrian fatality risk drops from 50% at 30mph to just 1.5%–10% at 20mph.
Recent data shows 20mph zones can reduce child fatalities by up to 75%.
Cost savings for NHS & emergency services.
February 5, 2026 at 8:23 PM
Studies show 20mph speed limits result in a 34%-40% reduction in fatal or serious injuries on urban roads.
Pedestrian fatality risk drops from 50% at 30mph to just 1.5%–10% at 20mph.
Recent data shows 20mph zones can reduce child fatalities by up to 75%.
Cost savings for NHS & emergency services.
Pedestrian fatality risk drops from 50% at 30mph to just 1.5%–10% at 20mph.
Recent data shows 20mph zones can reduce child fatalities by up to 75%.
Cost savings for NHS & emergency services.
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As @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social said 'The story has turned into being about 2 bad boys, Mandy and Andy, and not about an elite group of men creating a den, cut-off from the real world where they could behave as they want - which was about corrupt finance and brutalising women.' #Epstein
February 5, 2026 at 12:00 PM
As @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social said 'The story has turned into being about 2 bad boys, Mandy and Andy, and not about an elite group of men creating a den, cut-off from the real world where they could behave as they want - which was about corrupt finance and brutalising women.' #Epstein
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The first order of business for the British billionaire-owned press and the BBC (as an arm of the Establishment) is always to undermine any Labour government and return to power those who will support their own privileges and wealth. Charlatan as he is, Farage is their man, Starmer is not.
Farage is named in the Epstein files, Starmer isn't, but somehow the media seem determined to force Starmer out. I wonder why?
February 5, 2026 at 10:23 AM
The first order of business for the British billionaire-owned press and the BBC (as an arm of the Establishment) is always to undermine any Labour government and return to power those who will support their own privileges and wealth. Charlatan as he is, Farage is their man, Starmer is not.
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Mandelson’s always been shifty, though we didnt know the full extent.
Farage is fully shifty out in the open! Racist, lazy, selects traitors, sexist & racist candidates, umpteen lucrative 2nd jobs, dodges interviews but does cameo videos. Just grotesque, yet there isn’t 1% the furore Starmer faces!
Farage is fully shifty out in the open! Racist, lazy, selects traitors, sexist & racist candidates, umpteen lucrative 2nd jobs, dodges interviews but does cameo videos. Just grotesque, yet there isn’t 1% the furore Starmer faces!
February 5, 2026 at 9:46 AM
Mandelson’s always been shifty, though we didnt know the full extent.
Farage is fully shifty out in the open! Racist, lazy, selects traitors, sexist & racist candidates, umpteen lucrative 2nd jobs, dodges interviews but does cameo videos. Just grotesque, yet there isn’t 1% the furore Starmer faces!
Farage is fully shifty out in the open! Racist, lazy, selects traitors, sexist & racist candidates, umpteen lucrative 2nd jobs, dodges interviews but does cameo videos. Just grotesque, yet there isn’t 1% the furore Starmer faces!
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There’s a v cynical media and political blindspot in the Epstein shitshow. A feeding frenzy to get rid of Starmer while red-carpeting Farage into No10. Who is named in the files. As is Candy, Reform’s treasurer. With Bannon. And Brexit.
Don’t cry about abuses of power and then do nothing about him.
Don’t cry about abuses of power and then do nothing about him.
February 5, 2026 at 7:44 AM
There’s a v cynical media and political blindspot in the Epstein shitshow. A feeding frenzy to get rid of Starmer while red-carpeting Farage into No10. Who is named in the files. As is Candy, Reform’s treasurer. With Bannon. And Brexit.
Don’t cry about abuses of power and then do nothing about him.
Don’t cry about abuses of power and then do nothing about him.
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On the sleight of hand that uses free speech as a diversion from questions of who controls the digital infrastructure of democracy and to what purpose. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
When Maga oligarchs control the platforms, it isn’t really a debate about ‘free speech’ | Rafael Behr
The debate over banning under-16s from social media should raise deeper questions about who controls democracy’s digital infrastructure, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
www.theguardian.com
February 4, 2026 at 7:41 AM
On the sleight of hand that uses free speech as a diversion from questions of who controls the digital infrastructure of democracy and to what purpose. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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➡️ WHAT ARE THEY HIDING? ⬅️
Reform is harvesting your data, and ignoring people when they get in touch – so we’re taking them to court
https://goodlaw.social/t42c
Reform is harvesting your data, and ignoring people when they get in touch – so we’re taking them to court
https://goodlaw.social/t42c
Farage’s Reform is collecting your data: here’s why | Good Law Project
Reform is harvesting your data, and ignoring people when they get in touch – so we’re taking them to court
goodlaw.social
February 3, 2026 at 11:56 AM
➡️ WHAT ARE THEY HIDING? ⬅️
Reform is harvesting your data, and ignoring people when they get in touch – so we’re taking them to court
https://goodlaw.social/t42c
Reform is harvesting your data, and ignoring people when they get in touch – so we’re taking them to court
https://goodlaw.social/t42c
Royal Mail surpassed themselves. Two Christmas cards arrived yesterday.
February 3, 2026 at 8:53 AM
Royal Mail surpassed themselves. Two Christmas cards arrived yesterday.
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Our media rightly rages about the already-disgraced Mandelson and Andrew but wrongly fails to hold others in that murky moneyed network to account.
Our democracy is under attack from these dismal people right now. Do not be exposing that a decade too late.
www.middleeasteye.net/news/steve-b...
Our democracy is under attack from these dismal people right now. Do not be exposing that a decade too late.
www.middleeasteye.net/news/steve-b...
Steve Bannon boasted about Farage ties in exchange with Epstein
Revelation comes as image surfaces of Bannon with Matt Goodwin, candidate for Farage's Reform UK in crucial Gorton and Denton by-election
www.middleeasteye.net
February 2, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Our media rightly rages about the already-disgraced Mandelson and Andrew but wrongly fails to hold others in that murky moneyed network to account.
Our democracy is under attack from these dismal people right now. Do not be exposing that a decade too late.
www.middleeasteye.net/news/steve-b...
Our democracy is under attack from these dismal people right now. Do not be exposing that a decade too late.
www.middleeasteye.net/news/steve-b...
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I think the Epstein affair is turning into the defining political scandal of our time. It is bringing into plain sight how informal networks of powerful, entitled, abusive and often sexually violent men operate outside any form of institutional scrutiny or restraint.
I really can’t keep up with this. It’s like every vague suspicion of oligarch, finance and tech power come together - with Russian influence.
Yes, you’re not imagining. Only Mandelson, Lebedev, Milner and Epstein and L’Affaire Russe
Yes, you’re not imagining. Only Mandelson, Lebedev, Milner and Epstein and L’Affaire Russe
February 2, 2026 at 12:53 PM
I think the Epstein affair is turning into the defining political scandal of our time. It is bringing into plain sight how informal networks of powerful, entitled, abusive and often sexually violent men operate outside any form of institutional scrutiny or restraint.
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I was naive enough to scoff at the idea that there was a shady group of powerful, rich and corrupt men engaged in undermining legitimate democracies and living immoral, criminal and hedonistic lives far removed from the reality of most people. I was clearly wrong. I hate that such people exist.
I’ve written this lengthy FT analysis overnight about the multiple multi-thousand pound Epstein payments to Mandelson’s husband
these particular paragraphs are worth reading slowly
www.ft.com/content/608a...
these particular paragraphs are worth reading slowly
www.ft.com/content/608a...
January 31, 2026 at 10:23 PM
I was naive enough to scoff at the idea that there was a shady group of powerful, rich and corrupt men engaged in undermining legitimate democracies and living immoral, criminal and hedonistic lives far removed from the reality of most people. I was clearly wrong. I hate that such people exist.
Who would have thought that all these great brains, who set themselves up as leaders of men, would prove to be so weak, susceptible and corruptible?
February 2, 2026 at 1:28 PM
Who would have thought that all these great brains, who set themselves up as leaders of men, would prove to be so weak, susceptible and corruptible?
Let this be the end of “dark eminences.”
February 2, 2026 at 8:53 AM
Let this be the end of “dark eminences.”
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From pub poets to pine martens, via Jan Morris and Owain Glyndŵr: a joyous piece by Jon Gower on Machynlleth. What a town it is! So proud to be part of it.
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Making Tracks: Machynlleth
Jon Gower In A Machynlleth Triad the travel writer Jan Morris suggests that Machynlleth, known by locals as Mach, “seems to stand there beside its river thoughtfully, perhaps just a little cynically, ...
nation.cymru
February 2, 2026 at 8:01 AM
From pub poets to pine martens, via Jan Morris and Owain Glyndŵr: a joyous piece by Jon Gower on Machynlleth. What a town it is! So proud to be part of it.
nation.cymru/feature/maki...
nation.cymru/feature/maki...
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BREAKING: A Gamekeeper has pleaded guilty in England’s first-ever Hen Harrier persecution case.
Covert video and audio gathered lawfully by the RSPB Investigations team has helped expose the deliberate targeting of a Hen Harrier, leading to a landmark guilty plea:
www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen... 👈
Covert video and audio gathered lawfully by the RSPB Investigations team has helped expose the deliberate targeting of a Hen Harrier, leading to a landmark guilty plea:
www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen... 👈
January 29, 2026 at 5:11 PM
BREAKING: A Gamekeeper has pleaded guilty in England’s first-ever Hen Harrier persecution case.
Covert video and audio gathered lawfully by the RSPB Investigations team has helped expose the deliberate targeting of a Hen Harrier, leading to a landmark guilty plea:
www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen... 👈
Covert video and audio gathered lawfully by the RSPB Investigations team has helped expose the deliberate targeting of a Hen Harrier, leading to a landmark guilty plea:
www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen... 👈
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This is very good on just how trapped we are by the geopolitical weakness, anti-immigrant rhetoric and trade dysfunction of Brexit.
By not changing the Tory record, for fear of alienating Reform voters, Labour - and so the country - is hamstrung by strategic idiocy and populist cruelty.
By not changing the Tory record, for fear of alienating Reform voters, Labour - and so the country - is hamstrung by strategic idiocy and populist cruelty.
My Trade Secrets today, in which it's fair to say I go off on one.
The Labour party is famously "a moral crusade or it is nothing". On aid, immigration and trade they're going for the latter option, with betrayals of principle both repugnant and pointless. 1/n
The Labour party is famously "a moral crusade or it is nothing". On aid, immigration and trade they're going for the latter option, with betrayals of principle both repugnant and pointless. 1/n
The abandonment of Labour’s moral crusade
[FREE TO READ] The UK is taking a cynical but fruitless turn to the reactionary and insular on aid, immigration and trade
as.ft.com
January 29, 2026 at 1:06 PM
This is very good on just how trapped we are by the geopolitical weakness, anti-immigrant rhetoric and trade dysfunction of Brexit.
By not changing the Tory record, for fear of alienating Reform voters, Labour - and so the country - is hamstrung by strategic idiocy and populist cruelty.
By not changing the Tory record, for fear of alienating Reform voters, Labour - and so the country - is hamstrung by strategic idiocy and populist cruelty.
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University Student loans do not go to Universities, they do not go to the Government.
They have been sold to billionaire bankers who do not pay ANY tax in the UK on the money.
As well as leaving 4m people in crippling debt they are destroying the economy.
They have been sold to billionaire bankers who do not pay ANY tax in the UK on the money.
As well as leaving 4m people in crippling debt they are destroying the economy.
January 29, 2026 at 1:52 PM
University Student loans do not go to Universities, they do not go to the Government.
They have been sold to billionaire bankers who do not pay ANY tax in the UK on the money.
As well as leaving 4m people in crippling debt they are destroying the economy.
They have been sold to billionaire bankers who do not pay ANY tax in the UK on the money.
As well as leaving 4m people in crippling debt they are destroying the economy.
A lovely home for @psychicsquirrel.bsky.social
January 29, 2026 at 1:51 PM
A lovely home for @psychicsquirrel.bsky.social