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A year to the day since Mandelson told the FT that their questions about Epstein were "an FT obsession and frankly you can all fuck off."
I wonder if the paper sent him a card, @pickardje.bsky.social?
I wonder if the paper sent him a card, @pickardje.bsky.social?
February 5, 2026 at 11:52 AM
A year to the day since Mandelson told the FT that their questions about Epstein were "an FT obsession and frankly you can all fuck off."
I wonder if the paper sent him a card, @pickardje.bsky.social?
I wonder if the paper sent him a card, @pickardje.bsky.social?
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Weird and almost universal revisionism today. Even at the time, it was pretty clear that Mandelson wasn't appointed *despite* his dodgy links but *because* of them. Trump's Washington is a dirty swamp. Mandelson was deemed a man able to swim in it. This wasn't a secret. Everybody said it out loud.
February 4, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Weird and almost universal revisionism today. Even at the time, it was pretty clear that Mandelson wasn't appointed *despite* his dodgy links but *because* of them. Trump's Washington is a dirty swamp. Mandelson was deemed a man able to swim in it. This wasn't a secret. Everybody said it out loud.
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Sometimes MI5 does not tell the truth. That is not some wild lefty view, but the considered view of the PM himself. So, dag asks: why water down the Hillsborough laws?
Why the Hillsborough law campaigners are right to be resolute
The attempts to water down the duty of candour should be resisted
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
February 1, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Sometimes MI5 does not tell the truth. That is not some wild lefty view, but the considered view of the PM himself. So, dag asks: why water down the Hillsborough laws?
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The summary is excellent.
February 1, 2026 at 3:14 PM
The summary is excellent.
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A tiny few Lords are simply refusing to allow the House to come to any decisions on assisted dying. This is profoundly undemocratic. MPs put huge time into listening to the public during the Commons stages, and then had the courage to make difficult decisions there. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
February 1, 2026 at 2:02 PM
A tiny few Lords are simply refusing to allow the House to come to any decisions on assisted dying. This is profoundly undemocratic. MPs put huge time into listening to the public during the Commons stages, and then had the courage to make difficult decisions there. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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The director of Melania movie
January 31, 2026 at 6:59 PM
The director of Melania movie
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“When the world is silent as children are killed, starved and displaced, that silence is complicity,” writes Wesam Hamada, whose 5-year-old daughter, Hind Rajab, was killed in Gaza. “Every child who dies waiting to be saved represents a failure of humanity.”
“When the world is silent as children are killed, starved and displaced, that silence is complicity,” writes Wesam Hamada, whose 5-year-old daughter, Hind Rajab, was killed in Gaza. “Every child who dies waiting to be saved represents a failure of humanity.”
Opinion | No Child Deserves to Die Like My Daughter
What was done to my daughter did not break me. It left me with a mother’s responsibility to ensure no child is left unheard.
nyti.ms
January 29, 2026 at 5:40 PM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“When the world is silent as children are killed, starved and displaced, that silence is complicity,” writes Wesam Hamada, whose 5-year-old daughter, Hind Rajab, was killed in Gaza. “Every child who dies waiting to be saved represents a failure of humanity.”
“When the world is silent as children are killed, starved and displaced, that silence is complicity,” writes Wesam Hamada, whose 5-year-old daughter, Hind Rajab, was killed in Gaza. “Every child who dies waiting to be saved represents a failure of humanity.”
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You have to laugh at these worthless people. But the joke wears slightly when you consider that there is a war on Minnesota’s Main Street waged by Trump’s Gestapo that is killing and terrorising Americans.
January 29, 2026 at 6:04 PM
You have to laugh at these worthless people. But the joke wears slightly when you consider that there is a war on Minnesota’s Main Street waged by Trump’s Gestapo that is killing and terrorising Americans.
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Every day, throughout Israel's genocide in Gaza, which is still continuing, the IDF would claim that the Palestinian Health Ministry's death counts were "lies" & "propaganda".
Often you could hear BBC news readers' audible scepticism when reporting the numbers.
bsky.app/profile/chri...
Often you could hear BBC news readers' audible scepticism when reporting the numbers.
bsky.app/profile/chri...
I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable.
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
IDF accepts Gaza Health Ministry death toll of over 71,000 Palestinians killed in the war
Although Many International Experts Have Accepted the Health Ministry's Data as Reliable, and Even Conservative Relative to the True Death Toll, Israel Had Refused to Accept the Health Ministry's Coun...
www.haaretz.com
January 29, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Every day, throughout Israel's genocide in Gaza, which is still continuing, the IDF would claim that the Palestinian Health Ministry's death counts were "lies" & "propaganda".
Often you could hear BBC news readers' audible scepticism when reporting the numbers.
bsky.app/profile/chri...
Often you could hear BBC news readers' audible scepticism when reporting the numbers.
bsky.app/profile/chri...
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I don't care what Martin Lewis says, tuition fees have been a disastrous policy for both students and govt.
Higher education in the UK should be wholly or mostly funded out of general taxation, as it is in most of our European competitor economies.
Higher education in the UK should be wholly or mostly funded out of general taxation, as it is in most of our European competitor economies.
This is clearly depressing and radicalising in a way a tax wouldn't have been.
January 15, 2026 at 6:47 PM
I don't care what Martin Lewis says, tuition fees have been a disastrous policy for both students and govt.
Higher education in the UK should be wholly or mostly funded out of general taxation, as it is in most of our European competitor economies.
Higher education in the UK should be wholly or mostly funded out of general taxation, as it is in most of our European competitor economies.
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We unpack the roots of the current US approach to media policy via the gateway of the Gawker trial
The coalition between Peter Thiel and Hulk Hogan that captured Trumpism. @swajcmanearle.bsky.social joins @emilybell.bsky.social on Journalism 2050. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
January 28, 2026 at 6:27 PM
We unpack the roots of the current US approach to media policy via the gateway of the Gawker trial
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
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The savings from jobs cut in Ireland could recoup at least half of the $40m budget Amazon sunk into making its new movie ‘Melania’.
January 28, 2026 at 6:01 PM
The savings from jobs cut in Ireland could recoup at least half of the $40m budget Amazon sunk into making its new movie ‘Melania’.
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There is no doubt that Europe needs to spend more on its own defence, but pretending that all of the US' military budget is what they contribute to NATO rather than, say, on its Pacific coast is to purposefully misreptesent the reality.
January 25, 2026 at 8:58 AM
There is no doubt that Europe needs to spend more on its own defence, but pretending that all of the US' military budget is what they contribute to NATO rather than, say, on its Pacific coast is to purposefully misreptesent the reality.
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More evidence that the US government are lying liars who will lie about anything, this footage of ICE killing Alex Pretti supports the claim he was protecting a woman from violent ICE agents. The only thing he was brandishing was a phone.
January 25, 2026 at 8:58 AM
More evidence that the US government are lying liars who will lie about anything, this footage of ICE killing Alex Pretti supports the claim he was protecting a woman from violent ICE agents. The only thing he was brandishing was a phone.
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Denmark’s subsidies come to more than $10,000 per Greenlander every year. The offer of $100,000 for every resident mooted by some American officials therefore amounts to less than ten years of Danish welfare
Donald Trump’s grab for Greenland makes no sense
It would harm America’s security and its economy
econ.st
January 24, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Denmark’s subsidies come to more than $10,000 per Greenlander every year. The offer of $100,000 for every resident mooted by some American officials therefore amounts to less than ten years of Danish welfare
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How Morgan McSweeney's '0% strategy' failed to win over Reform voters while haemorrhaging Labour's own support base to the Greens
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/morgan-mcs...
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/morgan-mcs...
Morgan McSweeney’s 0% Strategy
The plot to block Andy Burnham's return to Westminster tells you everything you need to know about how Keir Starmer's Government got itself into this mess
www.adambienkov.co.uk
January 24, 2026 at 8:41 AM
How Morgan McSweeney's '0% strategy' failed to win over Reform voters while haemorrhaging Labour's own support base to the Greens
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/morgan-mcs...
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/morgan-mcs...
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In case you missed it: My suggestion that Farage was whispering to Trump behind the scenes while Trump was going after Greenland has been essentially confirmed.
As @jamesdaustin.bsky.social notes: Working against your country's interest with a semi-hostile state - there's a word for that.
As @jamesdaustin.bsky.social notes: Working against your country's interest with a semi-hostile state - there's a word for that.
January 24, 2026 at 7:40 AM
In case you missed it: My suggestion that Farage was whispering to Trump behind the scenes while Trump was going after Greenland has been essentially confirmed.
As @jamesdaustin.bsky.social notes: Working against your country's interest with a semi-hostile state - there's a word for that.
As @jamesdaustin.bsky.social notes: Working against your country's interest with a semi-hostile state - there's a word for that.
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I don’t think a state that is threatening wars of territorial aggression and has random death squads wandering about its mid-tier cities assassinating civilians should be hosting the World Cup
January 24, 2026 at 4:41 PM
I don’t think a state that is threatening wars of territorial aggression and has random death squads wandering about its mid-tier cities assassinating civilians should be hosting the World Cup
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I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening.
The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.
The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.
January 24, 2026 at 4:04 PM
I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening.
The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.
The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.
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THIS is how Trump's DOJ is destroying our nation. Any FBI Agent who insists on doing his/her job honestly and according to the law is forced out. Eventually, only political hacks and thugs willing to violate their oath of office to do Trump's bidding will remain.
www.cnn.com/2026/01/23/p...
www.cnn.com/2026/01/23/p...
FBI agent who initially investigated fatal ICE shooting in Minneapolis has resigned | CNN Politics
The FBI agent who initially began working with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to investigate the fatal ICE shooting of Renee Good has resigned from the bureau, two sources familiar with...
www.cnn.com
January 24, 2026 at 6:07 AM
THIS is how Trump's DOJ is destroying our nation. Any FBI Agent who insists on doing his/her job honestly and according to the law is forced out. Eventually, only political hacks and thugs willing to violate their oath of office to do Trump's bidding will remain.
www.cnn.com/2026/01/23/p...
www.cnn.com/2026/01/23/p...
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No. Don't push for stronger UK ties with the EU because Trump is a narcissistic thin skinned bully increasingly showing signs of dementia.
Making anything long term about him isn't right. Got to be a decision about the UK being an integral part of Europe.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Making anything long term about him isn't right. Got to be a decision about the UK being an integral part of Europe.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Starmer stands up to Trump at last and has chance to make case for Europe
Rebuke will do PM no harm with his party and opens up a politically perilous but potentially appealing path ahead
www.theguardian.com
January 24, 2026 at 7:01 AM
No. Don't push for stronger UK ties with the EU because Trump is a narcissistic thin skinned bully increasingly showing signs of dementia.
Making anything long term about him isn't right. Got to be a decision about the UK being an integral part of Europe.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Making anything long term about him isn't right. Got to be a decision about the UK being an integral part of Europe.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Europeans should strive to slow down the erosion of the transatlantic alliance—but they must also prepare for the day when NATO is no more
The true danger posed by Donald Trump
Despite a tactical retreat, great risks remain
econ.st
January 24, 2026 at 8:00 AM
Europeans should strive to slow down the erosion of the transatlantic alliance—but they must also prepare for the day when NATO is no more
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I see Farage, a man who will give a quote at the drop of a hat (or a fiver in his pocket), seems silent this morning. Perhaps all his “less we forget” “respect our veterans” stuff is less important to him than keeping in the good books of the orange draft dodger.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Trump prompts outrage with claim Nato troops avoided frontline in Afghanistan
UK MPs and veterans condemn US president’s comments and highlight his avoidance of military service in Vietnam
www.theguardian.com
January 23, 2026 at 1:22 PM
I see Farage, a man who will give a quote at the drop of a hat (or a fiver in his pocket), seems silent this morning. Perhaps all his “less we forget” “respect our veterans” stuff is less important to him than keeping in the good books of the orange draft dodger.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Why the Hillsborough law campaigners are right to be resolute
The attempts to water down the duty of candour should be resisted
Me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
Why the Hillsborough law campaigners are right to be resolute
The attempts to water down the duty of candour should be resisted
Me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
January 23, 2026 at 12:40 PM
NEW
Why the Hillsborough law campaigners are right to be resolute
The attempts to water down the duty of candour should be resisted
Me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
Why the Hillsborough law campaigners are right to be resolute
The attempts to water down the duty of candour should be resisted
Me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...