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If you find yourself anyplace that carries Outsider Magazine, my article on Macon Blair’s recent The Toxic Avenger reboot is in the new issue out now.
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February 10, 2026 at 1:42 AM
epsteinweb.bsky.social
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/ BARAK / 29 Minister. But fewer and fewer Israelis were enthusiastic about four more years of Bibi. But I also was keen to convey the substance of what my premiership would be about. Domestically, I spoke of the need to narrow gaps in education and opportunity — particularly, though not only, the continuing disadvantage of many in the Sephardi communities who had arrived in the early years of the state. 1 wanted to try to build bridges between the secular and religious as well. My hope was to begin to recreate the “One Israel” of my youth. In terms of policy, I believed my primary job would be deliver “security and peace” — in that order. I declared my commitment to continue, and build on, Oslo and to make a new push in negotiations with Syria. Deliberately following the model Philip Gould had used in Tony Blair’s election campaign, we also distributed nearly a million copies of a six-point policy “pledge card”. It included a promise to hold a referendum on any peace deal we reached with Syria or the Palestinians, as well as several domestic policy pledges, including an end to discrimination against Russian immigrants whose Jewish religious status had been called into question. Yet the most widely reported promise was that I would pull out all Israeli troops from Lebanon within a year. I realized that even among those who knew that made sense, voices would be raised both in the Knesset and the kiyra against withdrawing. As with the Bar-Lev Line before the 1973 War, the longer the “security zone” was in place, the more difficult that politicians had found it to say it was a mistake. Yet it had now been there for nearly two decades. The main argument for keeping it — that it protected the security of northern Israel — was undermined by the fact that thousands of Katyusha rockets had been fired over it. And in the low-grade war we were fighting against Hizbollah inside the security zone, around 20 Israeli soldiers had been dying each and every year. When I'd
February 9, 2026 at 11:08 PM
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/ BARAK / 22 struck by how different the approach was from our campaign for Peres. As I filled my notebook with the details, Philip added a final bit of advice. “If you want to win, have it run by the best professionals you can find. Not politicians. They always have personal agendas. Focus is everything. Distractions and arguments and infighting can be fatal.” Philip recommended one professional, in particular, to get us started: Stanley Greenberg, the pollster who had advised not only Blair’s campaign, but Clinton’s. Doron used his contacts in New York to put us in touch not only with Greenberg but the strategist behind the Clinton victory, James Carville, and another leading Democratic Party consultant and speechwriter, Bob Shrum. We began working with all of them well before the no-confidence vote in the Knesset. Philip had a wonderfully British understatement and reserve. Stanley, with his eyeglasses and demeanor too, came over as slightly professorial. With Bob, it didn’t take long to understand why he was such a gifted speechwriter. He loved words, especially the way they could be used to inspire a connection with important campaign themes: above all with the idea of hope, and new beginnings. Carville was the human equivalent of a volcano. If he hadn’t been a campaign strategist, he could have made a living as a hybrid of a cowboy and a stand-up comedian. But they all shared the easy, infectious self-confidence of people who were very good at what they did, and knew it. When I went to New York with Doron to meet Carville in Feburary 1988, my confidence as Labor leader was taking some fairly hard knocks. But from the moment he walked through our hotel-room door, it was impossible not to like him. He showed up in a T-shirt and tennis sneakers, walked straight across the room, slouched into a chair and said: “General Barak, I don’t get it. You’re a known public figure, with a great mind and a great military record. It’s already been a year-and-a-half since
February 9, 2026 at 11:07 PM
steven-hughes.bsky.social
Only two Lab leaders didn't weave Mandelson into their team.
John Smith (Blair's predecessor) & Corbyn.

Starmer's also in thick with another Epstein bro, Peter Thiel. Attending off-the-books meetings etc.

Thiel owns Palantir & 30+ Gov contracts: 670M.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What links Jeffrey Epstein and Keir Starmer’s government? A thick seam of contempt | Nesrine Malik
We’re often told the PM is a ‘decent’ man. But in appointing Peter Mandelson he chose political convenience over doing right by trafficked women and girls, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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February 9, 2026 at 10:34 PM
sirthinksalot.bsky.social
A few of the UK people who had mentions because they were the gatekeepers of powerful people - e.g. PM Blair's communications director - have called for full release since January 2025.
February 9, 2026 at 10:25 PM
jpappone.bsky.social
Tell me you think Moby Dick is a simple story about a guy and a whale without telling me you think Moby Dick is a simple story about a guy and a whale…
Picture of a tweet Blair’s Loomer that reads: It's kind of ironic how Bad Bunny was dancing on an electrical post at the Super Bowl halftime show. Puerto Rico isn't exactly known for having reliable electricity. He could have highlighted the electrical grid crisis in PR and done some good with his platform, but he chose degeneracy!
February 9, 2026 at 9:45 PM
dune400.bsky.social
There's debate among Lab circles between who was more successful Atlee or Blair. Blair stayed 4 longer but Atlee delivered real change (NHS, welfare state etc) that was harder 2 budge (even 4 Tories) than Blair's which were mostly eradicated pretty quickly under Osbourne.
February 9, 2026 at 9:11 PM
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VIDEO ALT TEXT: A highlight of Trinity Blair's Marvel Rivals gameplay as Squirrel Girl. It shows Dr Strange opening a portal for her team, then using it to target the enemies on the point directly with her main attacks and ultimate attack where Squirrel Girl yells, "Squirrel stampede!"
February 9, 2026 at 8:59 PM
delexical.bsky.social
I think I remember the moment I wrote off Blair's government: when Pinochet stood up from his wheelchair after Straw sent him home.
February 9, 2026 at 8:54 PM
scrabber.bsky.social
In happier news today, my animation books arrived! 😄 I'll start reading them this evening 😁
Preston Blair's Cartoon Animation and Richard Williams' The Animators Survival Kit
February 9, 2026 at 8:43 PM
kecastle.bsky.social
Would that fr label include Shabina Mahmood? Asking because she has Tony Blair's backing, and because of his latest known transatlantic networks (plus epstein etc)
February 9, 2026 at 8:37 PM
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February 9, 2026 at 8:16 PM
sinurata.bsky.social
BECAUSE of 1992! Blair's Labour was elected on a promise to keep to the Tories' spending plans. Which even the Tories were not going to stick to as they were too stringent.
February 9, 2026 at 6:28 PM
yoz.bsky.social
Is my memory failing, or was that also the case during parts of Blair’s reign?
February 9, 2026 at 6:27 PM
stephengraham.bsky.social
Blair's Bonkers Broken Britain.
February 9, 2026 at 6:15 PM
fabfiona.bsky.social
Whoever gets a job from their clique ends up disappointing said clique. Whether as a cabinet member or the realities of governing... And don't necessarily make good ministers.

That said, though, Tony Blair's appointment of Tony Banks as Minister for Sport was indeed inspired!
February 9, 2026 at 6:09 PM
edpoole1975.bsky.social
Mate, I was campaigning against Labour when you were sitting in Labour Party conference tutting along to Tony Blair's leader's speech.

Don't come the purity test with me.
February 9, 2026 at 5:26 PM
spsblue.bsky.social
The Starmer and Blair's Tories debacle...
February 9, 2026 at 5:00 PM
sovietcakelady.bsky.social
as a big boob haver john waters shoulda found an actress who actually had massive knockers instead of putting these sandbags on selma blair's chest lmao

this is equivalent to skinny people wearing a fat suit, for me
February 9, 2026 at 4:11 PM
andanotherkate.bsky.social
I'd never argue that everything was perfect in 1997, but in Blair's first cabinet you had Gordon Brown, Jack Straw, Robin Cook, Margaret Beckett, John Prescott, Clare Short, Mo Mowlam and Alistair Darling, all of whom had a degree of credibility. (And I always had a soft spot for Frank Dobson.)
February 9, 2026 at 3:53 PM
thepiaz.bsky.social
Starmer's 'inconvenient truth' is less an anomaly, more a political tradition. From Blair's 'Third Way' to today's Gaza stance, expediency consistently trumps principle. Public trust pays the price. #UKPolitics #PoliticalStrategy

Read more: https://piaz.news/article/the-echo-chamber-of-political-ex
February 9, 2026 at 3:53 PM
manmademoon.bsky.social
It’s true that he doesn’t have Blair’s “Cool Britannia,” aura, or Boris’ Teflon haystack mop of hair to deflect all comers…
February 9, 2026 at 3:47 PM
thornfieldhall.bsky.social
Worth remembering that Mandelson was instrumental in getting Andrew his 'trade envoy' 'job'.
We can only speculate how much the other knew that they were each sharing documents against the interests of the UK. Let's hope the police fully investigate this.
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Bloomberg 10th Sept 2025. Photo of Mandelson with Andrew. Text: "Are vou seeing them off and winning?' Mandelson. who came to prominence in the mid-to-late 1990s as ar architect of former UK Prime Minister Tonv Blair's New Labour proiect, has held several high-profile political roles over the ecades. News accounts in the early 2000s describe how Mandelsor relped persuade Queen Elizabeth to appoint Prince Andrew, her second son and the Duke of York. to an influential role as an international trade ambassador Photo `Prince Andrew is welcomed by Mandelson at the Europear Commission's headquarters on June 7, 2007. SOURCE: OLIVIER HOSLET/EPA/SHUTTERSTOCK Reports from the time show the Duke of York and Mandelson at parties in London and New York alongside Ghislaine Maxwell. a British socialite whose long personal and business relationship witl Epstein led to her 2022 conviction on sex-crime charges. It is not known when Mandelson and Epstein first met, or whether Maxwell introduced them.
February 9, 2026 at 3:34 PM
draustphd.bsky.social
A thing one gets from re-watching 'In the Thick of it' is the sense that political SpAd-ocracies are dominated by packs of weird & obsessive sniggering young blokes. E.g. wasn't Mandelson's consultancy pal Ben Wegg-Prosser nicknamed 'Oofy' when he was Blair's StratComs Director in his early 30s?
jessicaelgot.bsky.social Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 14h
Much the same as with Karen Pierce and the US ambo appointment, Starmer actually had someone who could have been director of comms, Steph Driver, who gave years of hard work and professionalism in opposition but then got a succession of people promoted over her for no apparent reason
February 9, 2026 at 2:54 PM
unionsteve.bsky.social
And therein lies a question. None of the above! Those that aren’t Blair’s retreads are clones.
February 9, 2026 at 2:53 PM