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“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Pursued by federal agents, suburban ICE observers remain resolved
After a frightening pursuit by federal agents, suburban ICE observers say fear hasn’t stopped them from protecting their communities.
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February 4, 2026 at 3:45 PM
“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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February 4, 2026 at 7:57 PM
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We're delighted to announce that Nigella Lawson is joining FT Weekend's food & drink pages as a columnist.
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February 4, 2026 at 5:38 PM
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Is there any man with money that isn’t a repellent human? A short list.
February 4, 2026 at 7:44 PM
Is there any man with money that isn’t a repellent human? A short list.
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Breaking news: Kettle has strong thoughts about blackness of pot
Farage calls for EU to probe Mandelson’s time in Brussels ft.trib.al/eAGo2wa
Farage calls for EU to probe Mandelson’s time in Brussels
Reform UK leader claims former trade commissioner may have misused his position for personal gain
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February 4, 2026 at 7:21 PM
Breaking news: Kettle has strong thoughts about blackness of pot
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BREAKING: Peter Mandelson expresses remorse and vows to atone for past lies, by walking the Salt Path.
February 4, 2026 at 2:07 PM
BREAKING: Peter Mandelson expresses remorse and vows to atone for past lies, by walking the Salt Path.
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PMQs:
Kemi Badenoch raises the fact that I asked Starmer in January 2024 about our 2023 FT story showing Mandelson staying at Epstein’s Manhattan mansion while he was in prison for soliciting prostitution from a minor
(Starmer shrugged off my question)
Kemi Badenoch raises the fact that I asked Starmer in January 2024 about our 2023 FT story showing Mandelson staying at Epstein’s Manhattan mansion while he was in prison for soliciting prostitution from a minor
(Starmer shrugged off my question)
February 4, 2026 at 12:07 PM
PMQs:
Kemi Badenoch raises the fact that I asked Starmer in January 2024 about our 2023 FT story showing Mandelson staying at Epstein’s Manhattan mansion while he was in prison for soliciting prostitution from a minor
(Starmer shrugged off my question)
Kemi Badenoch raises the fact that I asked Starmer in January 2024 about our 2023 FT story showing Mandelson staying at Epstein’s Manhattan mansion while he was in prison for soliciting prostitution from a minor
(Starmer shrugged off my question)
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I had a great time talking about Helen of Troy with Evan on BBC Radio 4’s PM just now, and if you want to hear more about the Odyssey, here’s my 28-minute version!
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics - Series 8 - Homer: The Odyssey - BBC Sounds
Natalie retells Homer's epic story of homecoming, adventure and passion.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 3, 2026 at 5:36 PM
I had a great time talking about Helen of Troy with Evan on BBC Radio 4’s PM just now, and if you want to hear more about the Odyssey, here’s my 28-minute version!
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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1. Trump certainly wants to fully rig elections.
2. He has no actual plausible plan to do so.
3. We should absolutely take the threat very seriously and actively do what's possible to protect elections and democracy.
4. What's actually likely is success or failure at the margins; every bit counts.
2. He has no actual plausible plan to do so.
3. We should absolutely take the threat very seriously and actively do what's possible to protect elections and democracy.
4. What's actually likely is success or failure at the margins; every bit counts.
The last time he started talking like this, his allies minimized the risks and we ended up with January 6. This time we must take him literally and seriously. These comments are a five-alarm fire for democracy. In a functioning republic, he would be impeached and removed from office today.
February 2, 2026 at 9:13 PM
1. Trump certainly wants to fully rig elections.
2. He has no actual plausible plan to do so.
3. We should absolutely take the threat very seriously and actively do what's possible to protect elections and democracy.
4. What's actually likely is success or failure at the margins; every bit counts.
2. He has no actual plausible plan to do so.
3. We should absolutely take the threat very seriously and actively do what's possible to protect elections and democracy.
4. What's actually likely is success or failure at the margins; every bit counts.
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Dear US federal agents, the 1765 case of Entick v Carrington on warrants being required to enter properties was decided *before* your revolution and so forms part of your common law too.
ICE is now claiming it can arrest people without a warrant.
This comes after another internal memo asserting ICE agents can forcibly enter homes without a judicial warrant.
Hello? Democrats cannot let these blatantly unconstitutional actions continue. Not another penny for ICE.
This comes after another internal memo asserting ICE agents can forcibly enter homes without a judicial warrant.
Hello? Democrats cannot let these blatantly unconstitutional actions continue. Not another penny for ICE.
February 2, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Dear US federal agents, the 1765 case of Entick v Carrington on warrants being required to enter properties was decided *before* your revolution and so forms part of your common law too.
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Plaid Cymru Westminster leader, Liz Saville Roberts MP:
“Losing the Labour whip alone does not deliver accountability for a scandal of this gravity," she said.
“In the interests of public confidence and the integrity of public office, I am joining calls for a formal police investigation."
“Losing the Labour whip alone does not deliver accountability for a scandal of this gravity," she said.
“In the interests of public confidence and the integrity of public office, I am joining calls for a formal police investigation."
February 2, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Plaid Cymru Westminster leader, Liz Saville Roberts MP:
“Losing the Labour whip alone does not deliver accountability for a scandal of this gravity," she said.
“In the interests of public confidence and the integrity of public office, I am joining calls for a formal police investigation."
“Losing the Labour whip alone does not deliver accountability for a scandal of this gravity," she said.
“In the interests of public confidence and the integrity of public office, I am joining calls for a formal police investigation."
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Epstein's predators were men. There are probably more rapists in the Epstein files than there are trans people in the UK. And yet the pearl-clutching TERFS are playing useful idiots to fascism by working to drive trans people out of public life, and worse.
February 1, 2026 at 9:13 PM
Epstein's predators were men. There are probably more rapists in the Epstein files than there are trans people in the UK. And yet the pearl-clutching TERFS are playing useful idiots to fascism by working to drive trans people out of public life, and worse.
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I hate the captive princess narrative so much. It tends to be applied disproportionately to women who are considered conventionally attractive, eg Melania Trump. The fact is that women who choose to marry awful men are usually awful themselves. That’s why they like those men. Adult women have agency
I would like everyone to understand that Talulah Riley was with Elon Musk because she wanted to be there and they had much in common. She was not some poor put upon woke darling trapped with a monster.
February 1, 2026 at 9:52 PM
I hate the captive princess narrative so much. It tends to be applied disproportionately to women who are considered conventionally attractive, eg Melania Trump. The fact is that women who choose to marry awful men are usually awful themselves. That’s why they like those men. Adult women have agency
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read online that someone set-up a premium rate phone number where callers get charged $3.99/ min. then they posted flyers in their neighborhood that said "call this number to report illegal aliens," but the number just puts them on hold with music. so far, they've made $17,000
February 1, 2026 at 8:28 PM
read online that someone set-up a premium rate phone number where callers get charged $3.99/ min. then they posted flyers in their neighborhood that said "call this number to report illegal aliens," but the number just puts them on hold with music. so far, they've made $17,000
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One of the most disgusting, brutal and unpunished child‑abuse networks in the world…
And the usual voices who claim to care about ‘women and girls’ have nothing to say.
We see you.
And the usual voices who claim to care about ‘women and girls’ have nothing to say.
We see you.
February 1, 2026 at 11:48 AM
One of the most disgusting, brutal and unpunished child‑abuse networks in the world…
And the usual voices who claim to care about ‘women and girls’ have nothing to say.
We see you.
And the usual voices who claim to care about ‘women and girls’ have nothing to say.
We see you.
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Yes, whatever happened to my fantasy Brexit where the all powerful UK simply swept away the superpowers, the global companies, anyone else's rules, geography, history, domestic politics, demographics, deindustrialisation, Trump, and things I don't like?
Oh yes, reality. And bad Brexiter governments
Oh yes, reality. And bad Brexiter governments
January 31, 2026 at 7:59 AM
Yes, whatever happened to my fantasy Brexit where the all powerful UK simply swept away the superpowers, the global companies, anyone else's rules, geography, history, domestic politics, demographics, deindustrialisation, Trump, and things I don't like?
Oh yes, reality. And bad Brexiter governments
Oh yes, reality. And bad Brexiter governments
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What is happening in United States is what happens when coercive powers of the state - arrest, detention, charges - are used as ends in themselves, and not as means of serving justice.
They know the arrests and charges will not stick, but they don’t care.
Intimidation, like cruelty, is the point.
They know the arrests and charges will not stick, but they don’t care.
Intimidation, like cruelty, is the point.
January 30, 2026 at 4:46 PM
What is happening in United States is what happens when coercive powers of the state - arrest, detention, charges - are used as ends in themselves, and not as means of serving justice.
They know the arrests and charges will not stick, but they don’t care.
Intimidation, like cruelty, is the point.
They know the arrests and charges will not stick, but they don’t care.
Intimidation, like cruelty, is the point.
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Council by-elections are all about getting out the vote.
It doesn't surprise me at all that the Lib Dems are good at that.
While other party conferences are consumed by internecine squabbles and posturing, the Lib Dems are in meeting rooms discussing the best way to get leaflets through doors.
It doesn't surprise me at all that the Lib Dems are good at that.
While other party conferences are consumed by internecine squabbles and posturing, the Lib Dems are in meeting rooms discussing the best way to get leaflets through doors.
January 30, 2026 at 10:55 AM
Council by-elections are all about getting out the vote.
It doesn't surprise me at all that the Lib Dems are good at that.
While other party conferences are consumed by internecine squabbles and posturing, the Lib Dems are in meeting rooms discussing the best way to get leaflets through doors.
It doesn't surprise me at all that the Lib Dems are good at that.
While other party conferences are consumed by internecine squabbles and posturing, the Lib Dems are in meeting rooms discussing the best way to get leaflets through doors.
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New report: a serious unintended consequence of the Government’s tenancy reforms.
Hundreds of thousands of ordinary tenants will be dragged into an annual stamp duty calculation and filing regime.
Hundreds of thousands of ordinary tenants will be dragged into an annual stamp duty calculation and filing regime.
January 30, 2026 at 9:12 AM
New report: a serious unintended consequence of the Government’s tenancy reforms.
Hundreds of thousands of ordinary tenants will be dragged into an annual stamp duty calculation and filing regime.
Hundreds of thousands of ordinary tenants will be dragged into an annual stamp duty calculation and filing regime.
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Rachel Reeves: "It is not right that people who don't go to university bear the cost for others to." I don't use local leisure centres and I don't drive, so will I be made exempt for taxation that pays for all that stuff? Or is it only education we'll be going after
January 29, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Rachel Reeves: "It is not right that people who don't go to university bear the cost for others to." I don't use local leisure centres and I don't drive, so will I be made exempt for taxation that pays for all that stuff? Or is it only education we'll be going after
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Spoke to Shleagh Fogarty yesterday sbout why the Chancellor is wrong: our “student loan” system is not remotely fair. It’s regressive and embedding inter and intra generational wealth inequality. It’s not a loan system, it’s a bad grad tax in all but name.
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Student loans are 'fair', says Rachel Reeves, amid backlash | LBC
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January 29, 2026 at 7:41 AM
Spoke to Shleagh Fogarty yesterday sbout why the Chancellor is wrong: our “student loan” system is not remotely fair. It’s regressive and embedding inter and intra generational wealth inequality. It’s not a loan system, it’s a bad grad tax in all but name.
youtu.be/uOC6Arrf2us?...
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Reform picks anti-migrant activist Matt Goodwin as its candidate for the Gorton and Denton by-election.
A reminder that just a few months ago the BBC invited him onto Question Time as a supposedly independent "author and academic"
A reminder that just a few months ago the BBC invited him onto Question Time as a supposedly independent "author and academic"
January 27, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Reform picks anti-migrant activist Matt Goodwin as its candidate for the Gorton and Denton by-election.
A reminder that just a few months ago the BBC invited him onto Question Time as a supposedly independent "author and academic"
A reminder that just a few months ago the BBC invited him onto Question Time as a supposedly independent "author and academic"
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Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
January 27, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
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Absolute nonsense. An unequal retirement age is unjustified and younger people deserve more of a slice of the pie than women born between 1950 and 1959. Disgusted to see Sarah Olney’s name here and no more support for @libdems.org.uk
January 26, 2026 at 8:16 PM
Absolute nonsense. An unequal retirement age is unjustified and younger people deserve more of a slice of the pie than women born between 1950 and 1959. Disgusted to see Sarah Olney’s name here and no more support for @libdems.org.uk