Jamie Zerfahs
@jayzee.bsky.social
Born and bred Hebridean. Engineering, Scotland, woodwork, watching the same programmes on TV many, many times.
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February 7, 2026 at 1:03 PM
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Picture 1: Two plain clothes police officers during a search of Peter Mandelson's home
Picture 2: Police search Nicola Sturgeon and Peter Murrell's home
Picture 2: Police search Nicola Sturgeon and Peter Murrell's home
February 6, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Picture 1: Two plain clothes police officers during a search of Peter Mandelson's home
Picture 2: Police search Nicola Sturgeon and Peter Murrell's home
Picture 2: Police search Nicola Sturgeon and Peter Murrell's home
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Not a single UK politician at the moment has an ounce of this man's charm. Bring back charisma! Especially on the left!
Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.”
Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.
Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.
February 6, 2026 at 1:49 PM
Not a single UK politician at the moment has an ounce of this man's charm. Bring back charisma! Especially on the left!
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Left: Zia Yusuf, "Mandelson deserves to be in jail. The buck stops with the executive, Keir Starmer is a disgrace to his office and should resign"
Right: Nathan Gill is in jail for accepting Russian bribes. Using Zia Yusuf's logic, isn't Nigel Farage also a disgrace, and should also resign?
Right: Nathan Gill is in jail for accepting Russian bribes. Using Zia Yusuf's logic, isn't Nigel Farage also a disgrace, and should also resign?
February 5, 2026 at 11:18 PM
Left: Zia Yusuf, "Mandelson deserves to be in jail. The buck stops with the executive, Keir Starmer is a disgrace to his office and should resign"
Right: Nathan Gill is in jail for accepting Russian bribes. Using Zia Yusuf's logic, isn't Nigel Farage also a disgrace, and should also resign?
Right: Nathan Gill is in jail for accepting Russian bribes. Using Zia Yusuf's logic, isn't Nigel Farage also a disgrace, and should also resign?
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🔴 BREAKING: Labour Together paid controversial PR firm £30k to investigate journalists who were digging into how its undeclared funding
Reporters from Sunday Times, Guardian and other outlets targetted
*And* Morgan McSweeney knew about it
Full story:
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
Reporters from Sunday Times, Guardian and other outlets targetted
*And* Morgan McSweeney knew about it
Full story:
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
BREAKING: McSweeney’s think tank paid PR firm to investigate journalists
Labour Together put private investigators onto journalists writing about its funding. Starmer's right-hand man knew.
democracyforsale.substack.com
February 5, 2026 at 8:01 PM
🔴 BREAKING: Labour Together paid controversial PR firm £30k to investigate journalists who were digging into how its undeclared funding
Reporters from Sunday Times, Guardian and other outlets targetted
*And* Morgan McSweeney knew about it
Full story:
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
Reporters from Sunday Times, Guardian and other outlets targetted
*And* Morgan McSweeney knew about it
Full story:
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
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Epstein wasn’t a “bad apple”
He didn’t “slip through the cracks”
He was the logical outcome of systems designed to protect rich, powerful men & discipline the rest.
Prisons didn’t stop him. Policing didn’t stop him. The state didn’t stop him.
He was protected & enabled by institutions of power.
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He didn’t “slip through the cracks”
He was the logical outcome of systems designed to protect rich, powerful men & discipline the rest.
Prisons didn’t stop him. Policing didn’t stop him. The state didn’t stop him.
He was protected & enabled by institutions of power.
1/n
February 4, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Epstein wasn’t a “bad apple”
He didn’t “slip through the cracks”
He was the logical outcome of systems designed to protect rich, powerful men & discipline the rest.
Prisons didn’t stop him. Policing didn’t stop him. The state didn’t stop him.
He was protected & enabled by institutions of power.
1/n
He didn’t “slip through the cracks”
He was the logical outcome of systems designed to protect rich, powerful men & discipline the rest.
Prisons didn’t stop him. Policing didn’t stop him. The state didn’t stop him.
He was protected & enabled by institutions of power.
1/n
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This is a moment for all of us who want our democracy to be clean and safe for all concerned to ask not just about the individual but the institutional changes that need to happen to prevent those who abuse positions of power from being able to do so -talked to Evan Davis today about how and why.
February 5, 2026 at 6:29 PM
This is a moment for all of us who want our democracy to be clean and safe for all concerned to ask not just about the individual but the institutional changes that need to happen to prevent those who abuse positions of power from being able to do so -talked to Evan Davis today about how and why.
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5 Stage of Reform UK Policy
February 5, 2026 at 6:30 PM
5 Stage of Reform UK Policy
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Peter Mandelson did not happen in isolation. He was enabled by a class of politicians, media & corporate business & is the embodiment of a rotten, venal, self-serving political & economic system. Below: Jon Sopel writing that "Mandelson is a class act" one year ago.
February 3, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Peter Mandelson did not happen in isolation. He was enabled by a class of politicians, media & corporate business & is the embodiment of a rotten, venal, self-serving political & economic system. Below: Jon Sopel writing that "Mandelson is a class act" one year ago.
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The Epstein Files ought to comprise the easiest political case against the billionaire class ever conceived. Any politician who supports policies favouring the ultra-wealthy should never be able to escape this association.
February 2, 2026 at 12:36 PM
The Epstein Files ought to comprise the easiest political case against the billionaire class ever conceived. Any politician who supports policies favouring the ultra-wealthy should never be able to escape this association.
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for connoisseurs of local journalism traffic farming, this is the latest frontier – you reprint ancient facts from Wikipedia and present them as news, in order to create curiosity gap headlines that appear in Google Discover / Apple News
February 2, 2026 at 2:12 PM
for connoisseurs of local journalism traffic farming, this is the latest frontier – you reprint ancient facts from Wikipedia and present them as news, in order to create curiosity gap headlines that appear in Google Discover / Apple News
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You can be kicked out of the Labour Party for retweeting Socialist Appeal, but associate with the world's most notorious sex trafficker of women and children and that's fine ...
Moments after he admits Lord Mandelson kept things from the govt prior to being appointed ambassador the US, Steve Reed is asked if Mandelson should be allowed to keep his peerage.
Reed invokes the victims to dodge answering the question.
Reed invokes the victims to dodge answering the question.
February 1, 2026 at 9:28 AM
You can be kicked out of the Labour Party for retweeting Socialist Appeal, but associate with the world's most notorious sex trafficker of women and children and that's fine ...
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The "coincidence" of Epstein's cash payments to Peter Mandelson's partner/husband in 2009/10 and the then industry secretary's lobbying within cabinet for a softer post-crash policy towards bankers looks on the face of it like outright corruption. Certainly demands police investigation.
January 31, 2026 at 5:57 PM
The "coincidence" of Epstein's cash payments to Peter Mandelson's partner/husband in 2009/10 and the then industry secretary's lobbying within cabinet for a softer post-crash policy towards bankers looks on the face of it like outright corruption. Certainly demands police investigation.
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every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds
January 30, 2026 at 11:58 PM
every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds
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the brexits will continue until morale improves
January 30, 2026 at 10:32 PM
the brexits will continue until morale improves
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Curse of Private Equity.
PE firms cashing in on Britain’s special needs crisis.
Councils paying £90,000 - £104,614 a year for day-pupils with complex needs to Abu Dhabi controlled entities. Council spending £2.2bn a year.
No curbs on profiteering.
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PE firms cashing in on Britain’s special needs crisis.
Councils paying £90,000 - £104,614 a year for day-pupils with complex needs to Abu Dhabi controlled entities. Council spending £2.2bn a year.
No curbs on profiteering.
archive.ph/LdXqs
The private equity firms cashing in on Britain’s special needs crisis
Specialist schools are a source of income for investors and a financial burden on cash-strapped councils
www.telegraph.co.uk
January 30, 2026 at 8:22 AM
Curse of Private Equity.
PE firms cashing in on Britain’s special needs crisis.
Councils paying £90,000 - £104,614 a year for day-pupils with complex needs to Abu Dhabi controlled entities. Council spending £2.2bn a year.
No curbs on profiteering.
archive.ph/LdXqs
PE firms cashing in on Britain’s special needs crisis.
Councils paying £90,000 - £104,614 a year for day-pupils with complex needs to Abu Dhabi controlled entities. Council spending £2.2bn a year.
No curbs on profiteering.
archive.ph/LdXqs
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January 29, 2026 at 8:47 PM
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Rachel Reeves, "It is not right that people who don't go to uni are having to bear all the costs for others to do so"
Oli Dugmore, "If Reeves wants to make the argument that you shouldn't be paying for things that you don't use, there will be a lot of pensioners who don't get a pension"
Oli Dugmore, "If Reeves wants to make the argument that you shouldn't be paying for things that you don't use, there will be a lot of pensioners who don't get a pension"
January 28, 2026 at 11:23 PM
Rachel Reeves, "It is not right that people who don't go to uni are having to bear all the costs for others to do so"
Oli Dugmore, "If Reeves wants to make the argument that you shouldn't be paying for things that you don't use, there will be a lot of pensioners who don't get a pension"
Oli Dugmore, "If Reeves wants to make the argument that you shouldn't be paying for things that you don't use, there will be a lot of pensioners who don't get a pension"
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Sundance’s filmmakers spoke to the urgency of the political moment. Their movies, mostly, did not. But there was one powerful exception.
The Inspiring New Movie About a Neighborhood That Stood Up To an Immigration Raid—and Won
The most timely movie at this year’s Sundance Film Festival is also a lot of fun.
slate.com
January 28, 2026 at 11:00 PM
Sundance’s filmmakers spoke to the urgency of the political moment. Their movies, mostly, did not. But there was one powerful exception.
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Can someone please delete this - it's making us look like a bunch of hypocritical twats.
January 27, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Can someone please delete this - it's making us look like a bunch of hypocritical twats.
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This. I'm not a BBC-basher but IMO Mason is a poor political journalist. It's not that he's 'biased' per se, it's that he reports politics as a kind of giggly spectator sport and as such is preoccupied with spectacle, talking up 'exciting' events rather than analysing them. 1/2
~ Chris Mason, the BBC's Farage fanboy - The New World ~
https://www.thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sack-chris-mason-the-bbcs-farage-fanboy/
https://www.thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sack-chris-mason-the-bbcs-farage-fanboy/
Chris Mason, the BBC's Farage fanboy - The New World
The corporation's political editor has penned another piece cheering on Reform after Suella Braverman defected to the party
www.thenewworld.co.uk
January 27, 2026 at 5:53 PM
This. I'm not a BBC-basher but IMO Mason is a poor political journalist. It's not that he's 'biased' per se, it's that he reports politics as a kind of giggly spectator sport and as such is preoccupied with spectacle, talking up 'exciting' events rather than analysing them. 1/2
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In case you wonder what our team is up against re vexatious complaints (particularly in relation to our coverage of Gaza), here you have it:
The National was the most complained about paper to regulator IPSO (outside London) last year, yet not one complaint was upheld‼️
The National was the most complained about paper to regulator IPSO (outside London) last year, yet not one complaint was upheld‼️
January 25, 2026 at 10:56 AM
In case you wonder what our team is up against re vexatious complaints (particularly in relation to our coverage of Gaza), here you have it:
The National was the most complained about paper to regulator IPSO (outside London) last year, yet not one complaint was upheld‼️
The National was the most complained about paper to regulator IPSO (outside London) last year, yet not one complaint was upheld‼️
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Not mine but to good not to share
January 25, 2026 at 10:11 AM
Not mine but to good not to share
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CalMac's £26m ferry charter as new ship sidelined | The Herald
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/25792998.calmacs-26m-ferry-charter-new-ship-sidelined/
#scothinews
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/25792998.calmacs-26m-ferry-charter-new-ship-sidelined/
#scothinews
CalMac's £26m ferry charter as new ship sidelined | The Herald
The public cost of chartering Scotland’s emergency ferry is set to rocket to £26 million — £12m more than it cost to buy — as the country’s flagship new vessel was sidelined for at least four months. MV Glen Sannox, the first major new ferry to join the west coast fleet in almost a decade, and one of the two ships at the centre of the nation's ferry fiasco, has been out of action since November and will now not return to service until February 23 due to problems linked to a crack in its hull.
www.heraldscotland.com
January 25, 2026 at 10:23 AM
CalMac's £26m ferry charter as new ship sidelined | The Herald
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/25792998.calmacs-26m-ferry-charter-new-ship-sidelined/
#scothinews
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/25792998.calmacs-26m-ferry-charter-new-ship-sidelined/
#scothinews